Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2721 to 2730 of 6175.

• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: mistake. Let us correct this from today by passing this Bill, it is assented to and we move forward. view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: , Hon. Speaker. view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to report that the Committee of the whole House has considered the Division of Revenue (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 59 of 2019) and approved the same without amendments. view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. Obviously, I am very concerned that Kenyans, in their wisdom, created these two Houses with the hope that they would complement each other in law-making and add value to parliamentary process. Unfortunately, perhaps, the intentions of some of the people who wanted the Senate to be created are emerging. When we were at the Bomas of Kenya and people started debating how many houses we needed, there was a whole group of people who said: “Can we create a nyumba ya wazee – a retirement house where people who ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because of the limited roles that the Senate has been given, it falls into the adage that an idle mind becomes the devil’s workshop. They have started creating mischief because they have nothing else to do. They are challenging the Appropriations Act that is basically saying how money in this country will be shared out and used. The Senate has threatened to go to court to challenge the constitutionality of several laws, including the Appropriations Act. Members, you need to ask yourselves what would happen if that challenge was to go through. You will all be ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: this Senate do? The Senate is supposed to protect the counties. However, even as we created the Senate, we also created the county assemblies – to which governors account to and who approve the budgets of the counties. It is never the Senate! It is the county assemblies. So, I do not even know where they got the power to summon governors to account to them. If you are not responsible for approving the budget for somebody, how are you then going to tell them to render an account to yourself? They are extending their mandates because, obviously, they do ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: directing the courts but if somebody was to appear before a court of law to seek a stoppage of the Appropriation Act, I do not know at what point the courts will be able to offer judgement because they themselves will not have money to even… view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Chair. Perhaps I may not have got exactly what the Chair said, but if I look at the Bill, the existing Clause 10 is about the functions of the accreditation committee. It is not about the schemes. We just created an Accreditation Advisory Committee, which requires its functions to be defined. I actually expected the Chair to be now amending Clause 10 to read “Accreditation Advisory Committee’s Functions”. By deleting the functions of the committee and then bringing in a scheme, it means we have created an Accreditation Advisory Committee, but have deleted its functions. The functions are ... view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I hear what the Committee is saying. It is a classic case of poor drafting. We are mixing the establishment and the functions. There is a reason why the two are separated in law. You combine them and in so doing, we lost, for example, the subject matter in sub-clause (3), where the accreditation committee may withdraw an accreditation. We have now lost it because it is not covered in the new Clause 9. I am just looking at what is here unless it is covered elsewhere. If you are legislating and then pushing some little ... view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: point on what can be tidied up in the Bill. If you can tell us where Clause 10(3) is covered within Clause 9 or a subsequent one, then I will be okay. view