Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4261 to 4270 of 6175.

• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not an error. The Government has donated its time and allowed the Private Members’ Bills to occupy its time. I believe that is a procedural matter. It is the generosity of the Government which the hon. Member should appreciate, instead of blasting us for donating our time, so that passing of the Private Members’ Bills can be accelerated. view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said before, Private Members’ business is only allocated Wednesday mornings. At any other time, so long as an Order appears on the Order Paper, it occupies time allocated for Government Business. What we have done is to basically allocate that time to the Private Members’ Bills. Until we have a change in our Standing Orders to create a symbol for donated time items, we will have to accept the current symbol indicating that it is a Private Member’s Bill that has been allocated prime time by the Government in order for it to ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to make my contribution on this Bill. I support, in principle, the issue of preferences, especially when the preferences relate to the youth, the disabled or to the people who will not, ordinarily, compete at par with those who are already established in business. I believe that the Public Procurement and Disposal Act had already provided for those preferences. I have a slight problem with putting, within our law, the age limits and saying that 25 per cent of all procurement must be reserved for the people who are between 18 and ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if the hon. Member had been a little bit patient, he would have listened to my argument to know why I have an issue I would like addressed by the time we get to the conclusion of this Bill. In principle, it is very good but we do not want a situation where it gets challenged from a constitutional perspective because the Constitution does not allow discrimination on account of age. Age is one of the factors where you cannot discriminate. You will recall--- view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker that sounds to me more like an argument and the hon. Member will have her time on the Floor. What I was saying is that if you read the amendments as proposed by hon. Eugene Wamalwa; and I must congratulate him for the time and effort he has put in this, you will find that it is not addressing the issue of protection of people who have been marginalized. It is actually seeking to say that 25 per cent of all procurement shall be given to the people of his category. I think that is the ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the spirit of this Bill is very good. It opens the door for much more amendments that are required for the public procurement, especially to bring in our youth and the people in the counties. As we talk about the youth, let us also remember we have a lost generation. The 1980s and 1990s produced a lost generation in this country. These are the people who are the fathers of some of these children. These people have gone beyond 35 years. These are the people we find now sitting around in the shopping centres, drinking. They ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is my humble contribution. I would urge the Members, as we move forward, to seriously think so that we do not flout the Constitution in terms of discrimination. This law should become an enabler to facilitate as many people as possible to participate in this procurement, in the supply chain, rather than just segregating a small group, who may end up being the old youth of this country; not the youth we are targeting, whom we then can confine to the KKV. There are richer people who would be supplying them with the spade because ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to support. I urge that those matters be looked at before we get to the Committee Stage. view
• 17 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are expecting one of them. But, perhaps, we could use some time and if they do not come, we can revisit the matter later. view
• 17 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, could I ask that the Question be listed on the Order Paper on Tuesday, next week to allow me to trace them and alert them to come here? view