Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Elections (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.3 of 2022), be now read the Third Time. view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: I want to take this opportunity to thank the various Members of the Committee who have worked on this Bill. They fast-tracked it to a point where, as a House, we can say we have done what we needed to do to ensure that the impending general elections will be done in accordance with the law as updated based on the court rulings that necessitated the bringing of this Bill to the House. So, the Bill is giving confidence in terms of credibility of the elections of this year. I want to thank each Member who is here for helping ... view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me start by thanking the Members for the interest they have shown in this Bill. From the contributions, it is very clear that Members have not only been concerned, but have also gone ahead and actually read through the Bill. I have been in this House for a very long time and it is very easy to tell when Members are contributing because of social media or what we have heard the other one saying, but also very different when Members have looked through the Bill. Let me also thank the Members of the Departmental ... view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: East Africa and the world. We do not have to keep bringing experts from Estonia, Sweden or Finland which have this kind of system. We hope that Kenya will provide experts to go around the world to demonstrate what an integrated identity management system is all about. I really thank everyone. I look forward to our processing the few amendments proposed by the Committee and any other amendments that Members may propose. Before we go on recess tomorrow, we should have this Bill in place. We need to allay the fears, as Hon. (Dr.) Otiende mentioned, of those who thought ... view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, for the record, yesterday we had a discussion with the Chair and Hon. Millie Odhiambo; and we agreed that all those amendments be processed yesterday so that we could discuss the Bill today. Hon. Speaker, this is a Bill which has taken 21 years to develop. I published this Bill in October last year. It has gone through all manner of delays until this time. This Bill needs to go to the Senate. I am not even sure if we would be able to finish it tomorrow. Realistically, we would be talking of May. Even if we finish ... view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move that the Committee does report to the House its consideration of the National Electronic Single Window System Bill (National Assembly Bill No.15 of 2021) and its approval thereof with amendments. May I also take this opportunity to thank the Members who stuck around, especially you, Hon. Deputy Chairlady. At some point, I did not expect that we will get there, but here we are. We owe it to ourselves to say “thank you” to one another for seeing this Bill through in the way we have done today. view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee in the said report. I also request Hon. Ruth Mwaniki to second the Motion for agreement with the report of the Committee of the whole House. view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the National Disaster Risk Management Bill (National Assembly Bill No.28 of 2021) be read a Second Time. As we all know, disaster management in Kenya has always been a challenge and remains quite a challenge. Every so often, we are faced with various disasters. Some are unpredictable, some unusual, some very unsettling, and some that we could have predicted, acted on or prevented, but we did not. The key question that lingers or should keep lingering in our minds as we debate this Bill is how we have handled disasters in ... view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: As you are aware, we have in the past faced several disasters as I have said. We faced terror attacks starting from the US Embassy and the Cooperative House attack some years back. We have had national emergencies and droughts. We are still having challenges of famine in some of our regions in the country. There are different approaches being used to tackle those challenges. We are just about to receive the rains. You can be sure there will be flooding in some areas. This has been witnessed in areas that are close to where you come from, Hon. Temporary ... view
• 13 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: both the policy and implementation direction to the Cabinet on matters relating to disaster and risk management among other functions, including coordination and monitoring of the intergovernmental multisector entities that are responsible for disaster risk management. Most importantly, it shall be obligated to provide a report to the Cabinet, the National Assembly, the Senate and the county assemblies. The Bill also establishes the National Disaster Risk Management Authority which shall, again, be the implementing agency of the law and all the preparedness, mitigation, recovery plans adopted or proposed by the intergovernmental council. The Bill itemises the various functions which is ... view