Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I second. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I second and thank Hon. Members for their input. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me start by appreciating the work that the Committee has put in this Bill. I have gone through their Report. Its thoroughness is indicative of the time and effort that they have put in this Bill. The Committee had 45 stakeholders who appeared before them. They all come with very divergent interests. Balancing all those things can be a challenge. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: They have good recommendations. We must commend them. I want to highlight a few things. I want to agree with something that was raised earlier by Hon. Mbadi in terms of some purported amendment to the Accountants Act to remove student accountants from being registered. When we were amending the Accountants Act those days, we realised that what people think of student accountant is anyone who is not qualified to be an accountant. Some of them are very senior accountants in Government corporations but they have not passed the final exam. Because there was no mechanism of regulating them, they ... view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: When you look at all the corruption that is taking place in this country and the plunder of public monies, you blame the accountants. On one hand, we want to fight corruption but on the other hand, we say that we remove the accountants from the regulator, which does not add up. I am glad because the Committee has seen that and even supported some other amendments that were brought in by ICPAK to further strengthen the regulatory framework and ensure that people who work as accountants in the public or private sector are regulated, whether they are qualified or ... view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: There are some surprises in this Report. Just the other day, the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing brought us a very good Report after analysing what is happening with Kenya Airways (KQ). It recommended that we should nationalise KQ which requires massive investment of public money to pay off the current investors and loans. KQ appeared before the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and made some recommendations that there are some taxation measures that can help them to be competitive in line with international best practice, including the recommendation that was made by the International ... view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: speak for KQ but fortunately, I was the Minister for Finance when I exempted them and when I was in the Ministry of Transport, I supported them and we had some growth. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I urge the two Committees to sit together and harmonise the interests which are basically the same, that we need an airline industry that works. What can we do in the Finance Bill to help so that the National Treasury does not continue in its search of levying more money to raise more funds, and does not kill KQ, where it is the main shareholder, and then go back for the same money they have raised from taxing KQ to bail them out through nationalisation? It does not make sense. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Let me also add my voice to the issue of the banking amendment. I am on record in this House in the past having opposed capping of interest rates because we had alternative ways of ensuring that the economy or the cost of capital is cheap. You may remember in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you needed to know the bank managers and even take them for lunch to be allowed to discuss a business proposal. Come 2003, we removed all that. We did some adjustments and banks started going to the streets. They erected tents in streets looking ... view