Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2171 to 2180 of 6175.

• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: So, that is the rational of this and we hope we will catch-up with the business of the day. In any case, I believe Members have noted. We will not be bringing the Private Member’s Bills. This is because we were taken to court and were gagged from discussing them until there is some concurrence between our Speaker and the Speaker of the Senate. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: In view of that, we will not enact business to the extent that we have been gagged. The most important thing is that we are asking for your indulgence to suspend the Sitting so that we can prepare the Chamber for the afternoon. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I beg to move and ask the Leader of the Minority Party to second. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2019 on National Policy for the Eradication of FGM. I want to commend the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare for the good Report. This Policy Paper was brought here in 2019, but it has taken the courage of the leadership in that Committee to be brave enough to bring it here because we know that there are people who do not want to talk about these issues. That is where the problem lies in this country. We have a beautiful paper, laws and ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Members left the Chamber almost calling for lack of quorum to defeat the Act. Most Members complained that we were introducing an Act when we were almost going for elections and that they were going to lose seats in their areas. It took the male folk in the House, and Hon. Sophia and Hon. Millie Odhiambo being so emotional in their contribution, for men to see the need to stop this vice. We had said that we were going to eradicate those issues in the new Constitution. Ordinarily, a Sessional Paper should come before the Act. We had the Act ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984; and the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, 1989. So, it is not like we are starting from zero. All these conventions have been there and they are ratified as part of the Kenyan laws. However, the whole world is laughing at us that we have all these conventions ratified and codified in our laws and we are still having 94 per cent of our population being subjected to torture that is against the international conventions that we have ratified. Article 44(3) of the Constitution bars any person from compelling another person to ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee and congratulate them for a job well done. Indeed, they went out of their way and worked over the weekend, so that we could get these appointments processed and Members get the opportunity of receiving their Report and debating it. When you read the Report, they have analyzed each candidate from their birth up to now. They have gone through their academic qualifications and how they fit into their jobs. The Report is unique since you see in it a proper fit between job requirements and the ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: people to know that they are in Foreign Service to serve Kenya as a nation. So, when we get some ambassadors from Mombasa, we want to see them representing Kenya not because they come from Mombasa, but because they are Kenyans. I am sure there are many ambassadors and people within the Public Service from the coast region, including the last two batches that we processed here. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: The ethnic groupings in Kenya are 43 or 44. I do not know whether we would have taken a third of an ambassador so that we fit the 43 within the 16 positions? Certainly, that is not practical. We need to start thinking of evaluating the persons to establish if they are fit to represent Kenya where they will be sent. Can we be confident when we find, for example, Ambassador Martin Kimani, who I know has a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) in war studies, representing us in the UN Security Council? What else would you want from him? You ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Let us be a bit patient. Let us not start looking for a populist point – that you want to cushion off people because they retired and are aged. This is so that we are seen out there looking for jobs meant for the youth. Mind you, these are youth who have not even taken time to go through training and skills development required for the positions we are agitating that they should be given. We should be thinking from that angle. We are busy creating classes in this country by trying to psych our young chaps that they do ... view