Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the levy is building up. Every time you import, there are already deductions that are going towards building that other fund. That fund is available. You can either use it for the construction or expand the use towards operations. That is the import of this amendment. Otherwise, you will tie yourself to only using the money that you have for the construction cost and then have to look for other money to pay for the maintenance. It is the same thing we are talking of. Let us expand the use of the fund. I disapprove the ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I have heard the comments from my colleagues but on this one, I have to agree with the President. You borrow money on the understanding that you are prepared to pay and not to default. So, we must, first of all, never pass laws here that will establish a culture of almost encouraging people to default. That is why you not only give security, but you also give guarantors who are jointly and severally enjoined in the process. Hence, you cannot say that because the person has given a house as security, which is probably matrimonial, and which ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am opposed to this amendment partly because of the ambiguity contained within it. If you look at Section 25(1), which talks about distribution, the provisions of sub-section 2 on the conditions for a party to receive money are even worse. The party has to have two-thirds in terms of office bearers, which is the same two-thirds rule that we have been unable to legislate on in this House. It also says that the party should have a party nomination list. There are a lot of things there. The party has to have at least a ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to, first of all, acknowledge the work done by the Budget and Appropriations Committee and, indeed, all the other Committees for reviewing this rather technical document. As Dr. Makali has said, it has become more of an annual ritual rather than a strategic guiding document. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I am saying this because if we look at last year’s and this year’s BPS, you will see lots of cut and pasting. You look at the numbers contained within the BPS and the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) from which it was derived and you start seeing inconsistences. It just shows that somebody is not taking it seriously. So, you have a target in the MTEF, when you come to the BPS, it is different and in April, we end up with Estimates that are not consistent. So, it becomes like a ritual because it is required to be submitted ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Look at the number of children going to school. Through the transition, they will end up in universities and Technical and Vocational Education Training Institutes (TVETs). Are we putting the same targets in the BPS? When we come to the Estimates, there will be the capitation per student such that when we multiply by the number of children, it should reflect in the Budget. Remember we have ceilings which we cannot exceed. So, there is a lot of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: inconsistencies between what we have promised the people of Kenya and what we have put in the planning documents and in the implementation documents. I agree that, perhaps, we need to move to a three-year planning horizon, so that the National Treasury can spend time in planning properly. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. We can use this time to remove all these inconsistences and ensure that between the intentions, policy and implementation, we can see a thread. Hopefully, when we look at the Estimates and see how much money we are giving, we will see ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Right now, we were being given a proposal and I am glad the House has refused it. We were being told to reduce budgets of Parliament and the Judiciary by Kshs1 billion. This means the outputs which the Judiciary was supposed to give and what Parliament was supposed to achieve this year would be reduced by Kshs1 billion. So, our sittings would have to be reduced or the Judiciary would not hear cases beyond a certain period. This is because people are planning without necessary looking at the correlation between inputs and outputs, but purely on absolute numbers. They can ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: producing, enhance their productivity and income, so they can retain people in office? It is very clear that at the fiscal policy level, we do not have space. We have exhausted all the options, but at the monetary policy level, we have several options that we are not utilising. We removed the interest cap rate which we were told is good for the economy. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has gone ahead and removed the Central Bank rate and is now at 8.25 per cent, but has this sent any signal to any of the banks to reduce the ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and the Members for their intervention. I want to emphasis the issue of pending bills. This amount should be paid so that we can, at least, get velocity of money supply up in terms of liquidity and credibility of suppliers. view