Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3561 to 3570 of 6175.

• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, regarding the issues raised by Mr. Baiya, it is important that I read one paragraph. A letter was written and it triggered all these processes; on 14th November, 2011, three days before the closing of the tender, a letter from the Office of the Prime Minister stated:- “The project as structured does require mobilization of massive resources with approvals by various arms of the Government and consequently Cabinet approval is required for the implementation of the project to protect public interests. It is the view of this office that the ongoing procurement process may not achieve the ... view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just to re- emphasize the matter of development, we are not delaying the development of the airport. When I went to the Ministry, the only development that was taking place at the airport was just the reconfiguration of the existing terminal. I do recall that during the opening of one of the sessions of Parliament, you challenged us yourself that we needed to do something at the airport. I took that airport and we said that we needed to look beyond the reconfiguration. Therefore, we decided that we should do a brand new terminal. Therefore, I am ... view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move to the following Procedural Motion:- THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 107, this House orders that the publication period of the Kenya Defence Forces Bill (Bill No. 35 of 2012) be reduced from 14 days to 11 days. Again, this is a Procedural Motion; this Bill should have been moved together with the others but for some reason, it was left out. It is one of the Bills required within the new constitutional framework. Fortunately, hon. Members have had more time to look at it but we now need to have ... view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it appears that the Minister may have anticipated that we will be going to Committee first and since he is not here, if I could ask for your indulgence that we reorganize the order to have the Leadership and Integrity Bill coming before the security Bills while we get the Minister to come. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to second this very important Bill on leadership and integrity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am surprised that the champions of integrity are not in the House today, when we are discussing integrity. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can see that the few champions are here. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not cast aspersions. I would have expected many more here because this House is full of champions of integrity, but I have been assured that they are well represented. Hon. Odhiambo-Mabona and I, we are alumni of some training together at the Les Aspin Centre which is a promoter of integrity. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us make some progress. I recognized that they are all here and the others who are outside will obviously be coming at some point. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I need indulgence from the front. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very important constitutional Bill. Thank you for protecting the dignity of this House. In terms of the hurdles that were being presented by that Bill, that 200,000 candidates were going to appear to be vetted, it is simply not practical. I believe the civil society is getting it wrong when they believe that the same vetting that we saw for people applying for positions to be appointed should be subjected to all the people seeking public office. There is no better way of vetting in terms of people seeking public office through ... view