Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move and request Mr. Githae to second the Motion. view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. It appears, perhaps, that we are debating two different things. The Motion on the Floor is not about extending the publication period. It is about reducing the period of committing the Bill to the Committee. The House already granted the reduction of the publication period last week. I needed to make that correction because we could be discussing and swaying Members to make the wrong decision. We know that CIOC has demonstrated its capacity to do the work. It has already been seized of this matter and can look at it ... view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. So that we can make progress in a very orderly way and to avoid hon. Mabona’s situation, would I be in order to ask the Member contributing to refer us to the Report as to where the source of the two outstanding issues are, so that we do not introduce matters which were discussed there but the Committee has not included them in the Report? We are discussing this Report and not the deliberations that took place out there, where we were not part of the allegations in this Report. If ... view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to put my comments on this historical Motion. I want to say, from the very beginning, that I support this Motion with the amendments that were put. In fact, I would have gone further and removed even all issues about reservations. That is because we did not send the Committee out there to bring us reservations. The Constitution is very clear, that the Committee of Parliament will, subject to the approval of Parliament--- It does not say with or without amendments. What we are given here is approval with ... view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it reminds me of a wedding. When you go to a wedding and the priest stands and asks: “Is there anyone out there who has any reservations as to why these two people should not be wedded?,” you do not hear people saying: “Yes, you can wed them subject to us investigating whether or not he had another girlfriend or she had another boyfriend.” Those are issues that are left to people to pursue through other mechanisms. You wed them there and then and then, you follow due process. view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I look at the allegations that were labeled against all the three candidates--- We may be looking at Mr. Tobiko, but there were allegations against all the three. I can associate with the bitterness they were feeling. Allegations have been leveled against me including in this House. So many allegations were brought here, including leading Members to even passing a vote of no confidence in me based on allegations. The President then constituted a Commission of Inquiry that called all the people who were bringing all those allegations to go and prove them under oath. ... view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue was that allegations were made. People were given the opportunity to ventilate them. view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I respond to that allegation, the hon. C. Kilonzo came before this House and disputed the valuation. The same hon. Kilonzo was commissioned by the Cockar Inquiry to give an opinion on the evaluation and he gave a totally different evaluation. We know what interest is made from people who do that kind of double job. Allegations will remain allegations. Every time people make allegations because they do not want somebody, the quickest route they take is that impunity must be fought. Every time that allegation is about impunity because they think that by saying ... view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think he has answered for himself. He is a director of Crystal Valuers who did the valuation. He was also the same one who was commissioned to do the report. This is the credibility issue we have in this House, and these are the people who make allegations, which they cannot substantiate! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to just add my voice in support of this Bill. It is a very important Bill that will set up the offices of the Auditor-General and the Controller of Budget – some two very critical offices. One will guard the door and the other one will report back. In terms of order, everything has been adhered to. The matter is very straightforward but as a member of the accounting profession, I would just like to urge the team that will be implementing this Bill that at the point of their appointment--- ... view