Amos Kimunya

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Entries 1671 to 1680 of 6175.

• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: first title deed – the way I look at it from the reading of the Committee’s Report – needs to be registered. It will be the title for the public utility and then other titles will follow. Issuance is almost simultaneous. The public land that has been set aside will be registered as the first item and all the others will be registered later. I think that cures the mischief, which is that people have set aside some land, but then they have not set aside the appetite to be part or partakers of that land. I think that will ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: That should be something we are all looking at so that we are not sympathetic that, because such people are poor, they can occupy that market or such a person is rich and so can be allowed to get away with it. Public assets and land should be protected from the mighty and the poor. It is for the public and there is nobody who should extract a private gain from it, except within the wider issue of the public participation and being a member of the wider public. With those few remarks, I beg to support and seek support ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I share part of the blame for this. This is because I tabled this document on 22nd December. You may recall we had a Special Sitting then. Why I am saying I share part of the responsibility for this is we agreed, because of COVID-19 and handling of papers, we will not be physically bringing Papers to the Table. They will be received in the Table Office. I will be given a schedule of all the documents that are there, so that we do not have to bring them physically here and table them. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Even the ones I read today with the annexures, my assumption is that the Table Office has confirmed those annexures are there. This is because I did not physically bring them to table them. I think there is a lapse somewhere. The Report was very clear that it has annexures. Hence, I assumed when I table a Report, I do so complete with all the annexures having been received in the Table Office because they are listed. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: The issue we need to look at is that nobody had any intention of concealing any of the annexures from public information. This is because the whole agreement is in public domain. It is only that it was not brought to Parliament complete with those annexures. My plea is that we do not delay this matter on a technicality of the annexures. They are important, but the Committee can look at them and give us a supplementary report to guide the House, having looked to find out if they fundamentally change the agreement or not. The electronic version of the ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: I am also aware that our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is dependent on agriculture. Our foreign exchange is dependent on agricultural export to Europe predominantly and the UK. We are operating on a temporary Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Kenya and the UK, which expires on 8th March - that is next week. After 8th March, Kenya exporters to the UK will have to start paying duties on exports. This makes it uncompetitive for our people relative to the other countries. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: So, we may have made a mistake. As Parliament, we were not thorough in terms of looking if the document was complete or not. That should not be an excuse for us to punish our farmers and exporters because of something we should have done in December and did not do. Perhaps, the Committee did not know if the people knew. I want to alert you that time is of essence. The Committee can look at it over the weekend and give us a Report so that we are able to debate this and save our farmers from being levied ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: This is the only thing I wanted to alert you about. We are here for the welfare of society and the just government of the people. That welfare of the society includes protecting our farmers and exporters to the UK. The taxation regime will change on 8th March, which is next week, if we do not have a binding agreement in place. We should have this in mind and task the Committee to rectify their mistakes. They should look into this as an emergency and give us, at the earliest opportunity possible, maybe on Tuesday, so that we can debate ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, clause 3 of the Bill be amended by— view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: (a) deleting Sub-Clause (4), view