Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2831 to 2840 of 6175.

• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: ways. You will have a building where you have put so much money and you are not going to use it nor complete it. So, whatever is spent you may as well consider it lost. You have contractors who are halfway through the process and so, you have to terminate those contracts. It becomes expensive and you will be paying interest on the time that he is taking. You may remember for those of you who were here 10 years ago about the stalled National Social Security Fund (NSSF) projects where a crane just stood there for ages. If you ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: So, if the reason as we are reading in the Report is because the Government has now decided to rationalise and move expenditure from those projects to new pet projects, then it is not exactly the kind of thing that would inspire confidence in the management of our resources. I would urge that we relook at these things and, as a Parliament, insist that no new projects will be started until the stalled projects have been completed. We should not just get a report tabled in Parliament showing the projects. What we need is an action plan of how those ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you for guiding the new Members. It is a process and I am sure they will catch up at some point. I am glad some Members mentioned that there were pending bills amounting to Kshs519 billion in 2002. However, when we started a committee to close those bills and to audit them, it transpired that the total pending bills were worth only Kshs1 billion or less. We need a thorough audit of some of these things. In those days, one of the things I heard people saying was that there was a bill of Kshs5 billion for construction of ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: 43 Thursday, 28th February 2019(P) view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: arbitrations so that they can get payments made. So, we need to be very careful on these pending bills and I agree that either we need to have a committee that will close or, at least, investigate them and before payments are made, this House should be put in the picture. Similarly, one of the things I like at page 15 at the top is the recommendation by the Committee about the need to harmonise the desired outputs with the resources that we have put in. We have outputs that have been there, but the money required is not there. view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: I wish we had more time to interrogate these things and I would like to encourage Members that between now and the time we come for the Budget proper, let us make sure we look at the BPS so that when we look at the Budget when it comes, we are able to identify some of those things so that we can get some seriousness into our budgeting process. That way, it just does not become a ritual where we just get a report here and we pass it, the Committee sits and we pass it, the other one comes ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wanted to speak on the NG-CDF, but I am sure I will have an opportunity. I wish to congratulate Hon. Dennitah Ghati for bringing this to our attention especially as we start moving towards the BRT transport system, commuter trains in Nairobi and basically fast-tracking our infrastructural and transport system needs that perhaps we might be overexcited by the new system and forget some of the communities that we live with. This has come timely. I cannot over-emphasise that. The issue is not just because we are having BRT or new trains coming ... view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the appointment partly because we have to do it and also because we have not found anything wrong with the candidate. I wish to congratulate him in advance. As I do that, I want to draw the attention of the House to the fact that we started the EACC because of the systemic failures in the actions of the Attorney-General who was also the Director of Prosecutions then, and could not tackle corruption. view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) became the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) which was started as a catalyst. So, because we have not seen much in the last few days or years despite the investment, I would like to see this new CEO perhaps refocusing on what the EACC should be doing. Should it be fighting with the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in terms of who 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
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: arrests who or who claims most credit for the arrest, or should it be concentrating on achieving the values that are contained in Chapter Six of our Constitution? view