Amos Kimunya

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• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Debate on this Bill started yesterday and I am grateful to the Members who have found time to contribute. As I said while moving yesterday, this Bill was introduced at the beginning of last year but it had to go through extensive consultation as issues were raised on it. This is perhaps the Bill where the public has participated most. So, I want to assure Members that in terms of public participation, this Bill has received extensive public participation and input from committee Members and members who are from the medical profession. If you look at ... view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: intervention. We also agree that we cannot have many Government officials within the regulatory bodies being covered by the Act. By and large, it is a very good Bill especially with the amendments that will have gone through the Departmental Committee on Health at different stages. I look forward to Members participating. As Hon. Rasso has said, when we come to the Committee of the whole House, we can ensure that we amend this Bill to accord with the wishes of the House. With those remarks, I want to thank Members who participated. I look forward to their participation at ... view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Chairperson of the Committee has kindly requested that we step down this Bill because they are still in consultation with his Committee Members and some of the stakeholders. He will bring their Report in the course of next week. As at now, we do not have the Report. We are using the Senate Bill to link and harmonise it with this Bill that we introduced in this House. The committee is at the final stage of harmonising the two and they would wish to bring a full report rather than a progress Report in the course of ... view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Next week we had agreed to do Budget issues. Realistically, it might be best we do it the week after. view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO) Societies (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly No. 55 of 2021) be now read a Second Time. As Members would be aware, this Bill is a republication of the SACCO Societies (Amendment) Bill No. 16 of 2018 which had already gone through this House. It was passed at the end of 2018 and was assented to. However, following the case that was sent to the courts by the Senate, the High Court on 29th of October 2020 declared her position in the Constitutional Petition No. 353 of 2019 that ... view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: As the Court of Appeal reversed the High Courts’ decision regarding the nullification of 20 Acts, three of those Acts including this one were upheld. The decision to nullify this particular one was upheld on the understanding that it had not gone to the Senate. So, the decision that we then took from House Business Committee (HBC) and following guidance from the Chair was that we republish this Bill. It had already gone through public participation and it has been completed in this House for purposes of then forwarding it to the Senate. The bits that the courts were uncomfortable ... view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: The Bill also intends to harmonise the definition of “minister” to bring it into accord with the constitutional reference of ‘Cabinet Secretary”. The responsibility of the Office of the Controller General as expressed in the Act will be harmonised with the Constitution. view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: It is a straightforward matter. We had gone through this Bill and everything was passed. It was challenged in the courts because SACCOs are one part of the devolved functions and the High Court agreed that indeed on this particular Bill, we should have taken it to the Senate for their input. We hope by redoing it afresh and passing it then take it to the Senate, it would have completed the journey as required by law. view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to move. I ask Hon. Nduati Ngugi to second. He has put quite some time on this and is a Member of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. I am also aware Hon. Oundo is here and he will be giving his input. view