Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: (2) A sitting of a county assembly may be held at any place within a respective county and may commence at anytime the Assembly appoints.” view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: As Members will note, the President has several functions. One, he is the head of the Executive. Two, he is also the head of State. Therefore, he acts on behalf of the people. So, when the President calls for the First Sitting of Parliament, he acts on behalf of the people, but not as the head of the Executive. The Executive, Legislature and Judiciary are independent bodies. This power is contained in Article 126 of the Constitution which basically gives the President the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: power to appoint the date and place of the First Sitting of the House. This was omitted in Chapter 11 of the Constitution which deals with the county assemblies and county governments. We tried to capture it in 2012 through the County Governments Act. However, we did not do it by some mistake. That is the error we want to cure with this amendment. We assumed that the President as the head of State is represented at the county level by the governor who is the chief executive of the county government, but not the head of the state of ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I ask the House to correct the anomaly that we created in 2012 so that county assemblies can independently oversee the governors without feeling that they are under the mercy of the governors, yet governors are chief executives and not heads of states at the county level. This is to draw that distinction. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I beg to move. view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the report of the committee and to commend them for the work that they did and indeed all the committees that sat over the weekend to go through the Statement and try to make sense out of it because of its importance as the basis for the Budget Estimates that will be view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: 41 Thursday, 28th February 2019(P) view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: brought here. Even as you go through it, I am not sure that the authors of the document have been listening to the political leadership. When you look at the manifesto and what the leadership is talking about, in terms of the intentions and the political pronouncements that have been made, and then you look at the BPS, you see total discrepancy. And I will give examples. One of the key enablers of the Big Four Agenda is technical training of our youth who will work in the manufacturing sector, who will be constructing the houses, who will help in ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: The National Treasury and Government ought to show us some seriousness in terms of whether those projects were desired in the first instance. If they were, as a Parliament, we should be insisting that before we commit new projects, let us, at least, complete the stalled ones. If you have money that is just lying between half-finished buildings, you are basically losing in two view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: 42 Thursday, 28th February 2019(P) view