Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the Health Laws (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 2 of 2021), and its approval thereof with amendments. view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House agrees with the Committee in the said Report. I request the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health, Hon. Sabina Chege, to second. view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to that the Elections (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 3 of 2022), be now read a Second Time. view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: The principal objective of this Bill is to amend the Elections Act, No. 24 of 2011 to meet a number of ends. It seeks to align the provisions of the Elections Act of 2011 with the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 56 of 2021), which was passed recently in this House. It brought a couple of changes in the way the political parties relate with one another, the way members relate with the political parties and the reporting of political parties to the Registrar. It also defined the role of the Registrar of Political Parties vis-à-vis the ... view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Act do not recognise that. So, we need to change the definition in the election law now to also include this new creation - the coalition political parties, and also to provide for how that coalition political party will submit its nomination rules. The current requirements for nomination rules apply to the generic party and not to the coalition political parties. view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: The Bill also seeks an amendment to bar what would be called clientism and gerrymandering voter transfers. I know the Committee has a different view on that but one of the amendments in this Bill is to require that for you to transfer to a new constituency, or to register in a different area from one you are in, you need to show you have a stake in that area so that we end this situation where, close to elections, I will go to my neighbouring constituency and pick all the people from my clan and transport them to my ... view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: It also seeks to align the electoral law like I said, Elections Act No. 24, with the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Presidential Election Petition No. 1 of 2017 and also in the High Court decision in the Katiba Institute and Others versus the Attorney General of 2018. The court made some certain pronouncements that challenged the validity of some of the provisions within the Act and declared some of them constitutionally invalid. So, they exist in books on electoral law and yet, they have been invalidated by the courts and this Bill intends to remove them so ... view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Most importantly, this Bill also requires the electoral commission to establish a complementary mechanism for transmission of election results whose details will be provided in the regulations. If I go into each of this and more systematically, there are various amendments that seek to align with the provisions of the Political Parties Act. They include Clauses 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 19, which are basically about alignment of the responsibilities of the Registrar of Political Parties vis-à-vis the IEBC because of the distinction in their various roles. One sorts out the political parties ... view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Clause 2 proposes to amend Section 2, again, to provide for the updated definition. I said earlier that a political party should include a coalition political party. Clauses 7, 8 and 9 make amendments with the provision of elections that refer to the nomination of candidates to the positions of the president, member of parliament, governor and member of county assemblies to align with the Political Parties Act that refers to registration of candidates by the Commission. So, the nomination will be by the political parties which will be within the preserve of the Registrar of Political Parties and then ... view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: will be no nomination by the IEBC for people to vie and register as candidates. That distinction is important so that when you are talking nominations, you are talking of party primaries, and when you are now talking of registration of candidates, you are talking of eligibility to vie in the election having been passed on by the political parties to IEBC. view