Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4931 to 4940 of 6175.

• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I urge that the Committee considers withdrawing this because we can always come back to the Bill later on and move further amendments because it is an Act of Parliament. However, for now, let us be very careful on what we do for the future. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, there are two components of the amendments, and we have just been looking at one amendment in terms of staggering. I would urge that Members look clearly at Article 75 of the Bill. It provides that the second batch of the commissioners shall be appointed not more than 12 months. They could well be appointed one month after the first lot. That is the essence of this clause, so that we do not delay appointing people until after August to comply. We can get the first five. Who knows? We may not even have all the gender ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, the other issue why I was opposing this, and I want Members to consider is that we are now saying all the commissioners to become full time. The Constitution envisaged a situation, where there are good Kenyans, who would want to serve on this Commission, but they do not want to be caught by the constitutional requirement that so long as you serve on a full time basis, you cannot engage in any other business for profit, including your private business. So, we are now limiting the scope of people who can become commissioners. We are limiting ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to urge that let us not discriminate against people through this legislation. Let us give that preference to allow as many Kenyans as possible to participate in line with the spirit of all inclusiveness. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, the point is that the Constitution provide that people can serve on either full time or part time. But it says if you serve on full time, you cannot do anything else. What we are now doing within the legislation is that we are saying that all the commissioners must be full time. This means they cannot do anything else. That is why I am saying we are now disenfranchising people from their right in the Constitution to serve their country on part time, while they engage in other things. But if they become commissioners, then they ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, while I can see the spirit of what hon. Kioni wants to achieve by making sure that all the money received, at least, is accounted for through the Treasury, if we put it as proposed, it could also be misused in that they cannot receive anything except from the Treasury. So, there is a misinterpretation issue. To the extent that the Bill is also obligating them that they must account for all the money received and pay and publish that in two newspapers, then whatever they receive will have to be public knowledge at the end of ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, it is important for Members to note that the Constitution only recognizes three arms that can present a Budget to Parliament under Article 221. These are the Executive, Judiciary and Parliament. But there is no provision in the Constitution for any of the other Commissions to table their budgets here. So, we can put it in a law, and then we will find a situation where their budget will not be funded. I would rather propose that we do not have this amendment, unless we change the Constitution to provide for the independent Commission to also table ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I want us to be alive to the fact that we say time and again that Parliament does not legislate in vain. The Constitution is very clear. It has already provided for all these people. I recognise that fact. By us saying that they are eligible, we are basically saying that, like any other Kenyan, they are eligible. It is a superfluous provision we are putting in this law. Such a provision could provide for mischief for them to say: “Parliament recognises us. So, you should consider us, and not anybody or everyone else”. Let us, first, ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairperson, while I support in principle the amendment by hon. Abdikadir and without anticipating debate on the subsequent amendment coming, looking at paragraph one, the amendments that are proposed, especially, “d” one person nominated by the Kenya Anti- Corruption Advisory Board; I have a problem with that. This is because the Economic Crimes Act that sets up the Kenya Anti Corruption Advisory Board sets out a very clear mandate of what the Board is supposed to do in terms of dealing with the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: If the spirit of this is to vet people for the integrity, then, perhaps, the route we should be going is that all these candidates will be cleared by the KACC for their integrity. But the Board in itself by nominating anyone to come in, it is not vetting the nominees; it is well bringing in somebody to vet. I would propose that we consider bringing an amendment to that. I would like to say that instead of the Kenya Anti Corruption Board, perhaps, we should replace that with the Public Service Commission (PSC) because of the expertise in recruitment, ... view