Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3241 to 3250 of 6175.

• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: THAT, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 111 (2), this House resolves to reduce the referral period of the Elections (Amendment) (No.3) Bill (Bill No.72 of 2012) and the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill (Bill No.73 of 2012) to the relevant Departmental Committee from 10 to 5 days. view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you recall that last week we sought the leave of the House to shorten the referral period. Hon. Members were concerned that we were not quite specific in terms of the timeline that we were talking about. So, we resubmitted this Motion in an amended form today, more specifically saying that the issue is to reduce the time required to refer these two Bills to the Committee from mandatory 10 days to 5 days. These are straight forward one-page Bills, which have a bearing on the forthcoming elections. view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Without anticipating the debate on these two Bills, the shortening of the referral period will facilitate getting the discussion on this matter in the House and fast track them to the Committee Stage. We will basically look at the two clauses in one of the Bills and change one or two other clauses in the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill. It is something that will create some certainty within the political parties and registration of voters bearing in mind the fact that the voter registration exercise is still ongoing. We need to close that register before the political parties could create ... view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: The timing is getting complicated. It is up to the political parties to know how to manage their own membership for purposes of nomination. That is what the Bill is seeking to deal with. I believe details will come up when we discuss the Bill itself. For us, as the House Business Committee, is to facilitate this Bill coming to the House, so that Members will have the advantage of discussing the matter without necessarily waiting until next week. This matter could be resolved this week and people take the necessary action. view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: I beg to move and ask hon. Midiwo to second. view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think we do not want to trivialize some of these issues. Hon. Khalwale has made a very serious allegation that the Members of the Front Bench have been giving this country troubles by misappropriating public funds. When challenged to substantiate, he is dodging around the issue and further complicating it by referring to them as hyenas. Would I be in order to ask hon. Khalwale to substantiate or withdraw that allegation and apologize to this House? view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thought that you put it very well that his reference to “some Members of the Front Bench” and exoneration of one Member, leaves the entire Front Bench, which comprises of 80 plus Members of this House. Unless there is a list scheduled, that of the 80 Members, these are the ones who are misappropriating public funds, then all the 80 Members stand condemned in the public eye. Could hon. Khalwale either list, out of the total Members of the Front Bench who are those who have misappropriated public funds or withdraw and apologize to ... view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Bill, and for very simple reasons. It is a very simple and straightforward Bill. Contrary to some of the issues that have been raised here, if I start with the membership of political parties, I am the Secretary General of Party of National Unity (PNU). I know that we have 79,000 registered members. But across the country, we have more members than that. That is the story in all political parties. Mr. Kiunjuri has given very graphic details about his own party. We witnessed the by-election that took place in Kangema, ... view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the essence of the matter we are discussing here is the amendment to Section 29. If there are consequential amendments that are required within the framework of the Committee - which I believe Mr. Ruto is a Member - the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee of this House - all those issues will be brought in so that we can be told what to amend. As of now, let us look at the merits and demerits of this amendment. That is what we are debating in this House. I can see that this amendment has merit ... view