Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: We will do one by one. So, I would like to ask that Order appearing under No.13 on the Order Paper be stood down to enable the Chairperson to be here to move the Bill. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Again, for reasons that the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security is tied in another committee meeting and will not be able to move this Bill, I would like to seek your indulgence that the business appearing under Order No.14 be stood down. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, again, the Chairperson of the PIC who has been very keen to move this business did not anticipate that we would get there. So, he sought leave to go and attend to other Committee matters, hence, he is not here now. I would like to ask for the indulgence of the House that business under Order No.15 be stood down and we prioritise all these things to appear on the Order Paper on Tuesday next week. I hope the Chairpersons will then be ready and here to move the business. view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Legal Notice No.172 on the exemption from the provisions of Stamp Duty Act on instruments executed for the transfer of LR. No. 209/3869 and the Explanatory Memorandum from the National Treasury Agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Republic of Kenya on Defence Cooperation and the Explanatory Memorandum from the Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Financial Statements of the National Police Service Commission for the Financial Year 2018/2019 Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of the following Institutions for the ... view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. From the outset, I want to congratulate you as the Chairman, Parliamentary Service Commission, for the statements you issued this morning and the advisory you gave Members yesterday evening, that helped bring down the temperatures and fires that were being fanned by activists almost creating a situation that Parliament is illegitimate. You helped in reasserting the legitimacy of Parliament and gave facts that people did not know. Hon. Speaker, the clamor for the new Constitution up to 2010, was about serving the greater public interest and improvement in the governance of the country. I will come ... view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: and Senators have about 10 members of staff, so, collectively, 400 members of staff are not sure whether they are going home or not. Their families are now full of anxiety because once a Member leaves, their constituency office is dissolved. All the 4000 families that are relying on Members will have to go home. There is a bigger picture that the CJ may not have looked at. The international community is watching. With that, there might be decisions that will be made by this House that will be illegitimate. Where do you place Kenya in terms of its predictability ... view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: I would like to speak to the two-thirds gender principle. We were with you at the Bomas of Kenya. I was there from 2003, but I believe you were there earlier. We were with Hon. Shakeel and others. It is a very complex situation because it was not exactly legal. It was a politically expedient decision. The genesis of it was the composition of delegates in Bomas. There were three delegates from every constituency, namely, the Member of Parliament, one woman, and one man. We also had members of the civil society respecting that kind of configuration. As we were ... view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: pointed out that they wanted to feel the person they were electing. It is very important to gather history. view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Two Articles had been drafted with the understanding that it is a mixed member, zebra situation. Article 27(3) and Article 81(b) had been drafted with that in mind. When the mixed member system of election was dropped, nobody bothered to harmonise Article 27(3) and Article 81(b) to reflect the new situation. At the county level, it was agreed that the 14 devolved functions were very close to the people and it was important to have the people represented in decision- making. At that point, there was no debate. Because of the sensitivity of the functions that had been devolved, people ... view
• 22 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: In the Senate, it was the same because it was to oversee the local authority level. That is how the names were included. Remember, in the National Assembly, it was supposed to be mixed members. There was no way you could use mixed member in the Senate because for the Senate, it was to be one Member per county. For the National Assembly, each political party was to bring its people. In the Senate, the 16 women nominees do not have voting rights on county matters, but they can vote on other matters being debated in the Senate. They were ... view