Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I know there have been concerns why we are having two Supplementary Estimates. It may look like a bad practice. Perhaps in our days, we had more latitude in terms of the timing you needed to bring it here. Unfortunately, in the 2010 Constitution, it was made mandatory in what was viewed as good order that any expenditure incurred outside the budget must be brought to the House for ratification within two months from the time the first expenditure is withdrawn. This means if you think there was budget for one budget item which was not there, immediately you make ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I wanted to just bring that up. As we are debating, I hope it does not look as if I am defending the National Treasury although a fair bit of me is still there. My heart is still there. It is for purposes of clarity that what the National Treasury is doing is because the law requires it to do. Ideally, even the National Treasury would not like to be doing supplementary budgets because it is a lot of work. As long as an expenditure or new budget line has come, obviously, it has to be done. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Members also need to internalise the fact that we are looking at the Supplementary Budget. I am glad some issues have been raised on the use of the Consolidated Fund, which does not remove the responsibility on the Auditor-General to further look deeper into what has been spent. Our duty as the National Assembly is to provide the funds and to demand accountability through the Auditor-General. So, we still expect the Auditor-General to come and delve deeper and look at some of the things that have happened so that the responsibility is not placed on the committees as if we ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I do not want to delve deeper. I agree totally with the recommendations of the Committee. Perhaps Members may want to ventilate a bit. As the committees have agreed, perhaps there is not much of a debate at this point. We should probably spend more time on what is on the future on the Budget for 2019/2020 because the supplementary is basically ratifying 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
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: what has happened and we will leave it to the Auditor-General to tell us whether there was any mischief or it was all in good faith. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: With those few words, I beg to support. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Indeed, my contributions were tied to our contribution as the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. I had highlighted, in the contribution, the dire need for funds that we suffer in the education sector. There is a mismatch between policy pronouncements that have been made in terms of support of the sector and funds that have been allocated. I do not want to go back to that. I think it was covered. I just want to go further and cover some of the issues that also came from a contribution from one of the Members. It ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: counterpart funding for Government have not done their bit. These are now being shown as stalled projects while they should be open and benefitting the students in those areas. On our universities, we accept and acknowledge there is a financing burden, especially with the reduction in module students namely, the privately paying students who were financing the universities. Therefore, we appreciate the need for rationalisation. We accept the ministry has already started a review on potential rationalisation of universities. It may lead to mergers of programmes, universities and colleges and some reforms. I am hoping the Members will support these ... view
• 11 Jun 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
• 6 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise under Standing Order No.95 to move that the Mover be now called upon to reply. As you can see, we are basically repeating ourselves. We are contradicting the earlier ruling of the Speaker. We are almost turning this debate into some entertainment theatre rather than discussing a serious matter. So, would I be in order to ask that that the Mover be now called upon to reply? view