Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: We have witnessed situations in this country where getting any two professionals, for example, engineers, accountants or lawyers and telling them to merge and form a huge partnership to attract multinational business will be met with reluctance based on “I cannot trust my partner.” As a result, most of the firms have remained small and cannot compete in Kenya, leave alone within the East African region, the COMESA or globally basis. With the opening up of all the barriers that can be put locally, our people face the risk of being declared extinct by the coming in of huge practitioners ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, like I said before, this is a Bill that does not require a lot of persuasion. I would like to urge the House to support the business community that has been crying for this and give them a law that will help them. view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to second. view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Standing Orders in this House are very clear. Members are responsible for the accuracy of the statements that they make and we have never had any incident where people have said it is in my computer and I will come and e-mail it or deliver it later. It must be done now or he must withdraw and apologise. view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this debate. I wish to thank the Mover, hon. Namwamba, for having brought us together to ventilate on this matter. As a House, we are oversimplifying the matter. There is a crisis out there. The prices of food have been going up. The cost of living is going up, but instead of looking at what we need to do as the policy makers, we have taken this opportunity to start name-calling and bringing issues that are secondary to the solution to this problem. We have ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are faced with a global problem. I would like to invite my fellow hon. Members who are technologically savvy like us, to look at the report that was issued by the World Bank, warning of a second global recession, that is coming on account of food prices going up on a global basis. We are seeing situations of food failure in Russia and China. We are also seeing changing patterns of food consumption in China, India and Brazil because of the change in their lifestyles. There is a global warning that food prices will ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the hon. Member was listening to what I was saying, he would have known that I never talked about the issue of Rift Valley. I am giving the global problem before I come to the local issue. I have said that we are faced with a global problem. In the first instance, we need to know that as Kenyan lawmakers and policy makers. We must, first of all, start addressing ourselves to what we will do when that comes to Kenya. We have a lot of maize in Kenya, but why has the price ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, could I be saved from these frivolous--- view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe that on the issue of water, the Parliamentary Committee has declared a verdict and I need say no more. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the food prices, the point I want to make is that if we are not careful, we will start looking at issues here and talking as if nothing major is happening out there, and miss the issue of our people. I also want us to look at the contribution of fuel to the whole of his debate. If we will attribute all the issues to fuel alone, we ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to strongly oppose what the hon. Member is trying to do. Under Standing Order No.108, the matter is very clear. The proviso says “---any Appropriation Bill or Consolidated Fund Bill”. What does the word “any” mean in this case? It means that whether it is Supplementary Appropriation Bill or Consolidated Fund Bill, it is exempted. That is the ordinary meaning of the word “any”. So, let us not try to split hairs here. This is a serious matter. If the Supplementary Appropriation Bill does not go through, funding of the Government will come ... view