Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4861 to 4870 of 6175.

• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: So, I would like to urge that as we go through the recruitment process, we ensure that, at least, the two people we get are members of the recognized Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), which is a body that was set up by the Accountants Act that was passed in this House to ensure that matters to do with accountability are handled professionally. view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is all I really wanted to say. Otherwise, I want to thank hon. Members for their contributions, and for having stayed behind to really ensure that this Bill sees the light of day. Thank you. view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I issued the Ministerial Statement and tabled documents. I believe that the hon. Member is asking for time to interrogate the Ministerial Statement. I am ready for the interrogation. view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the hon. Member for raising this issue. In fact, it is a matter we had raised ourselves in the Ministry, as I clearly indicated in my Statement. Indeed, the hon. Member is right. There are only two methods of procurement – the quality based method and the quality, time and costs based method. A decision had been taken to use the quality based method. What happens under that method is that the firm that meets the technical criteria is the only one which goes to the next step, which is discussion or consideration of its ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: We manage to do it and agreed to make progress. This matter has been taken up at higher levels of Government and I believe lessons have been learnt. One of the things that we will obviously be coming up with, perhaps, even an amendment to the Procurement law to ensure that quality-based methods will never again be used in this country. Cost must always be factored and you actually get the weight of the two to avoid a situation where you are forced into accepting only one of the bidders without knowing whether you are going to get better value ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thought I did. But just to repeat myself, the contract was awarded based on the technical negotiations that took place between the opening of the envelopes and negotiations with the contractor. I was not in the Ministry then. Immediately I moved into the Ministry, people started calling telling me that this contract was very expensive and so forth. I took my time to call for the documents and to review what we had entered into as a Government with this particular contract. In reviewing these documents, using my own experience as a consultant, I picked ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me just clarify that Japan Port Consultants is an independent consulting company. It is not part of the Japanese Government. The consultancy is fully funded by the Kenyan Government. We are all concerned that this project should not suffer any delay. We want not just to create jobs in Kenya, but to open up Ethiopia, Southern Sudan and the entire northern Kenya, north of the existing rail line. We are committed to doing that. I will be seeking the support of the House as we move forward on this project with several issues that will ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will start with the first question. I want to confirm that the money for the study was budgeted in tranches. The first Kshs500 million was budgeted in last year Budget, Kshs500 million was budgeted within the supplementary estimates and the balance is to be included in the new financial estimates. That is for the study. For the construction, hon. Members may remember that His Excellency the President did direct that the proceeds of the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel, the US$45 million, be reinvested and used for the development of this corridor. So, that ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in terms of what action will be taken, first of all, the matter has been taken up, like I said, by the Prime Minister’s Office as part of his coordination role. If there are any investigations as to whether the matter was deliberate or purely by error or whatever happened, that will be the subject of the outcome of the review that is taking place. At this point, I would not want to cast any aspersions on any of the members of staff, but the understanding is obviously that, if anyone was involved in any irregularity, ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, like I said before, the rates were included in the tender documents, but according to the method that was used, nobody was even expected to look at the documents because it is a very peculiar method of procurement. There is one thing that I will never support that says that whoever scores the highest technically, you can only negotiate the bottom line. People could well have said that the cost of this consultancy will be so much in one line and that would have been it. But, fortunately, for us, we had some background information that ... view