Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4701 to 4710 of 6175.

• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are two committees; the Committee of the whole House which will have to meet to look at this Bill and we will have the benefit of receiving the recommendations of the committee to which this Bill will have been committed and will have looked at it. I believe this will be made clearer by the Chairman of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), Mr. Abdikadir, as he seconds this Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those words, I would like to ask Members; let us remember that the overriding objective is to get as much work put ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to confirm that proceeding to the Committee of the whole House will await the report of the departmental committee. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I support the amendment by the Committee, and, obviously, the further suggestion by the hon. Karua. Indeed, in this same Committee, we passed amendments that further refine the definition of political party officials to actually mean that it is the chairperson and the secretary-general. If we look at it from that wider definition, then it is only fair that we amend the Schedule to accord with the rest of the Bill. These were the amendments that were proposed by the Minister and the Committee. They actually stated the contact persons shall be the chairperson, and ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose the Motion by Dr. Eseli. I was here throughout the session of the Committee of the whole House. I listened to the deliberations. For the benefit of the hon. Members who may not have been here, and who may be persuaded differently, Clause 14 was debated at length. There are two issues which the Mover and the Seconder of this Motion have mentioned. I would like to clarify what happened. On the issue of saving the old Clause 17, which is basically to allow members who are in a coalition arrangement ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I will start by saying that the fight against corruption in this country has been a total disappointment. This Bill gives us an opportunity to restart and clean up the process of fighting corruption in this country. If you look at all the things we are doing in pretending to fight corruption, you will see that the process itself is inherently corrupt, starting with the people we have. They got corrupted on the first day they were appointed. The argument in ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we saw very good progress in 2003, when the first term of the Kibaki Administration started. We saw new hope in the Kenyan people. We even saw wananchi stopping the policemen from taking bribes. We saw total change and commitment to fight corruption. That was before the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission came into being. Since then, I do not know what happened. We have only seen harassment of people, pretentions and even writing of reports to Parliament that people have been involved in recovery of some of the biggest assets, when those assets had been recovered ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we all know the frustrations we have gone through as a country in terms of horses bolting. We have been coming up and saying that the horses have bolted, but let us close the stable doors. Let us take this opportunity to start inculcating the culture of good citizenship in our children, so that by the time they become voters at the age of 18, they know what kind of leaders they want. We, as leaders, must set the pace. Election will be coming soon. I would like to, hopefully, see that by the time ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, against that background, I agree totally that the body we are creating should not pretend at any one time to be a super policeman, and ask for all those powers; we keep on hearing things like: “We could have done better if we were given prosecution powers”. It would be a major disaster given what we have seen to give such people the power to prosecute even people they have not investigated. It would be a total terror. On that basis, I support any move to amend this law to remove any reference to prosecution ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: That tells you the challenge we have. This House has a responsibility to save this country in terms of getting it ethical behavior. I agree that we should clean all the people, vet all of them and start the war afresh against corruption through inculcating a culture of good behavior while we give the DPP, the new Chief Justice and the police, power to do their work. Eventually, the sum total of all those interventions will be a better society that we shall all be proud to call Kenya. With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I did not want to interrupt the hon. Member because of the time we have but, if I heard him right, he said that the new ferries are stalling midstream because of corruption. I would like him to substantiate how the stalling of ferries midstream is related to corruption. That is because I am not aware, first of all, of the stalling and, secondly, because of any corruption that causes stalling of ferries in the sea. I would like the hon. Member to substantiate or withdraw that allegation because that ... view