Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2901 to 2910 of 6175.

• 20 Sep 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to report that a Committee of the whole House has considered the President’s Reservations to the Finance Bill (National Assembly Bill No.20 of 2018) and approved the same without amendments. view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The question that has been raised by Hon. Oundo is weighty. That is why we are in this Parliament. In the 11th Parliament, a number of laws were taken to court, challenged and thrown out. We do not want the 12th Parliament to follow that trend. That is why we came back. I may have brought this Bill to this House when it was passed and so, I know it. I knew the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) Act as a Bill and as an Act. For a person to determine the salaries of Kenyans, it ... view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: knowledge in those disciplines creates an SRC that has all the knowledge required to determine the salaries and financial implications of those salaries. It goes further to state in part (c) that the person should have knowledge of labour market trends as it relates to income in the public and private sector. Apart from just having knowledge in those five disciplines and 10 years’ experience in any of those five, you must also have, in addition, knowledge of labour market trends in Kenya as relates to income in the public and private sector. I know people can work at different ... view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: What is out of order? She worked with the ECK as a clerk in December, 2007. She worked with the Kenya Red Cross from April to July 2007. She served as an education project officer from January 2012 to January 2013. She was a nominated Senator, Parliament of Kenya, from 2013 to 2017. There is provision of experience in law. I am trying to find where public management, finance and administration, human resource management, economics and labour laws come in. The most important question is where the candidate gathered knowledge of labour market trends in Kenya because it relates to ... view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: We may do things here for convenience or because the nominee is our friend. However, we are bound by the law. Remember that this is a constitutional Commission that is set up pursuant to Article 230 of the Constitution. Therefore, whatever we do here is a constitutional matter. We swore in this House to uphold the Constitution of Kenya and not to do things because of friendships or because we want to be sympathetic. When you make your ruling, I urge you to be guided by whether this particular nominee’s experience, which is detailed in this Report, fits with what ... view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am a bit puzzled by the very passionate contribution by my friend. We are talking about a specific amendment. In all that passioned discussion, I did not hear reference to the amendment that has been proposed to Clause 7. It is a very general discussion. In a Committee, we must be guided by a certain procedure. The proposal by the Leader of the Majority Party is very noble to make sure that any contribution that is made to the National Housing Development Fund by anybody would be tax deductible. This Fund is being set up ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: setting up of this Fund. Let us not throw the baby out with the bath water before you even understand what this Fund is all about. Let us go step by step in the same logical framework and then Members will have an opportunity to raise those issues. They had the opportunity to bring that issue earlier. We are not creating the Fund here. At this point, we are saying that any contribution to this Fund will be tax deductible. Let us first agree on that then when we come to the creation of the Fund, which can become another ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to oppose that amendment by the Committee. As much as the scrap metal is controlled through another Act, its export is not necessarily illegal because it still continues. If you read the Budget speech clearly, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) sought to make it punitive for people to continue selling scrap metal by imposing a levy of 20 per cent. This levy is not only in Kenya but across East Africa. It is important that we know that we are protecting the vandalisation of copper wires and electricity wires by people who are ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I beg to oppose this amendment and ask the House to support the CS, so that we can protect our wires from vandalisation. Unless we want to support the people who are vandalising our wires and exporting them out there, we should oppose this amendment. Kenya does not produce copper. It is banned but those who export it should pay tax. view