Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: We seem to have not quite learnt to appreciate our three names. I rise to support this Bill. I want to remove the doubt of some Members. This is an amendment of a Bill that was brought in this House in 2012 as part of fulfilling the obligations under Article 200 of the Constitution which sets out some certain legislation that require to be brought, especially with respect to county governments. I am happy because the Senate has at last woken up and done something. If you look at what is happening within the counties, there are obviously a lot ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: governors to spend for the benefit of people in the counties, but they are also supposed to play the critical role of providing oversight. I am speaking with pain because my own county, Nyandarua, does not have a functional county assembly right now. There seems to be some kind of capture of members of the county assembly by the County Executive. The MCAs have been split into two camps; those who support the Governor and those who do not. view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The oversight role is being compromised by making the County Assembly of Nyandarua inoperable as late as this afternoon despite us having spent lots of time, as leaders of Nyandarua, in trying to bring sanity to the leadership of the County Assembly and the County Executive. It is obviously very clear that those who were against the governor continue being against him and those who were purported to be for the governor do not listen to him; they have no respect for him because even when he tells them not to cause chaos, they continue doing so. view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I recognise that there is change of Chair. It is against this background that I feel we have glorified the office of county governor. If you remember where we started in terms of creating the office of governor, we wanted to run away from a situation where county council chairs and mayors would book themselves into some hotels with some councillors, buy their support and get re-elected. We chose universal suffrage for purposes of electing county council chairpersons and mayors. The system grew from that point, with more resources being devolved and we eventually have county ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Against this background, I want to urge this House to consider within these amendments the provision that is proposed on Clause 7B. I know we had good faith when we did it in 2012. Clause 7B says that whenever a new county assembly is elected, the governor, by notice in the Gazette, shall appoint the date when the assembly sits. By doing this, we are elevating the governor to a local president. We know that the National Assembly sits at the request of the President, acting as Head of State but not as the Head of the Executive. The President ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: us through a Gazette Notice. Is there a head of state for the county? This is the distinction we need to bring out, that whatever is done by the President does not get replicated at county level by the governor. The governor is not the President of Kenya. He is not a head of state at the county level. There is no head of state at the county level. So, we need to amend that section. I wish the Chair of the Committee or the Members of the Committee are here, so that during the Committee of the whole House, ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: So, I urge the Chair of the Committee and Members that when we come to the Committee of the whole House stage, let us remove this anomaly and free our county assemblies from over-dominance by county governors. view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am happy that we now have a new process in the removal of a county assembly speaker, away from the hooliganism we have been witnessing across county assemblies. We thought that by elevating former councillors to Members of County Assemblies and paying them more their mannerisms would change, but we can only do so much. It is hoped that in due process, we will protect the institutions we create so that county assembly speakers do not just get removed at the whim of a few chaps sitting in a corner and saying that a speaker ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I support due process because I have been a victim of lack of the due process in this very House when the Standing Order of the House were flouted to bring a Motion in an afternoon after a notice of the Motion was given in the morning. Standing Orders were very clear that it required a three-day notice. But all that is history. I am happy that those who brought it did what they had to and I survived and did what I had to do later. I would hate to see lack of due process imposed on any other ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I request that we relook at the role of the governor in terms of county assembly and delink the two totally by amending Clause 7B to make it the role of the President, acting as the Head of State, to convene county assemblies. view