Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4821 to 4830 of 6175.

• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree fully that there is need to dispose of this matter sooner rather than later, but it will also not be good for this House to pass a law that is so fundamental in a controversial manner. It will be very good if the whole House moves together, that is the Government side as well as the non-Government side. The time we are asking for is today, so that we go to the House Business Committee (HBC) on Tuesday and allocate specific time, which will preferably be within next week. The HBC had already looked at ... view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: The important thing that I want to mention is that let us have the opportunity to go to the HBC on Tuesday. At that point we will be very clear in terms of when the Minister will come here and finalize this matter; I think this will not be later than next week. So, it will have to be cleared within next week; that extra two or three days will not hurt anyone, but will get us full concurrence of both sides of the House, and ensure that we move in unison rather than having the House compelling the Government ... view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, they are noted and we will comply with your directive. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill and, by extension, attempt to give formal Government response on it. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: I want to start by thanking hon. Mungatana for being brave enough to come up with a criterion on how we move into the new constitutional dispensation, under which Parliament is seized with the matter of vetting all senior public appointments; as of now we do not have very clear criteria as to how this should be done. This is the first attempt that has been made in terms of defining criteria, and it is a very good beginning. There might be a few changes required to fine tune the Bill but, at least, we have a solid start. I ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have seen discrepancies in the past. We have even had conflicting information on the Floor of this House in terms of how candidates should have been vetted vis-a-vis how they were actually vetted. This arose from the fact that the persons contributing to debate in the past would have wished that Parliament used criteria which would ensure that their candidates won. We now have something that is formal. I will be coming to that towards the end, in terms of the criteria that has been suggested in the schedule. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: I have heard people say quite often that since we have moved into a new constitutional dispensation, we need public participation in public matters. I believe that when we worked on the new Constitution, one of the things which seemed to be very clear was that people’s participation through their elected representatives had been muzzled. The first step towards addressing this issue was the creation of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to start exerting the independence of Parliament. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the whole idea of getting people to go to the Bomas of Kenya and work on a ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are talking the same thing. Once the people have delegated the authority to Parliament they have not lost it. They have given it to Parliament to exercise it on their behalf. They still have other powers that they will need to exercise directly like electing people, going to referenda and making other decisions. When Parliament has been given certain powers, it should not then be going back to the people and telling them, “you gave us powers to do this thing but we also want you to come and participate as we make decisions.” ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I could go on and on but, since I am conscious that one or two may also want to speak before we break, I want to, once again, thank hon. Mungatana for bringing this Bill that will bring sanity into the vetting process. Once again, let us take this probe the best way, let us take it forward and never use it to discriminate, especially among the bigger communities, because we really do not want to move our country to where people feel marginalized by the fact that they are bigger than the others, as ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support. view