Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: We have also looked at the history of this country. Let us go back to the late 1990s when the National Development Party (NDP) merged with the Kenya African National Union (KANU). When they could not make a decision, they imploded. In 2002, the Democratic Party, the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (FORD-K) and the National Party of Kenya (NPK) came together under the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). It was not possible to register a coalition and hence we adopted one of the parties – NPK – to change its name. Immediately the parties got into power, NARC was ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Fast forward to 2013, The National Alliance (TNA) got into a coalition with the United Republican Party (URP). In that coalition, President Uhuru Kenyatta had a running mate from URP who could not run on a URP ticket because the law does not recognise coalitions. Therefore, His Excellency William Ruto had to run on a TNA ticket. Moving forward to 2017, a number of parties; namely, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K), Amani National Congress (ANC) and FORD-K came together as the National Super Alliance (NASA). However, NASA could not sponsor a candidate. Therefore, ODM sponsored a ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: In 2016, the Jubilee Party attempted to cure the problem and amalgamated all the parties that supported the coalition. We know the story. Some people have bolted. It is clear that coalitions are the future of Kenya. It is a global phenomenon. There are coalitions in Britain, Germany and South Africa. There are coalitions everywhere. How do we ensure that parties that come together through a coalition are protected from the issues that we have seen in the past? That is what we need to think about. When two or three parties come together, they cannot rely on the big ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: I want to state that if a small party like the Party of Development and Reforms (PDR) was not given coalition housing by Jubilee, there would be no UDA today. PDR as a small party was housed by a bigger party and it was able to produce a bigger party. All these amendments have been brought in to ensure that we clean up the mess we never cleaned since 2011. The courts have told us that we need to clean up so that political parties can be properly defined in terms of coalition of parties, the sharing of money and, ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: I will leave it at that and allow the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal to continue. I want to urge Members that as we legislate, we must do it for posterity. We are not legislating for any of us but, basically, for the bigger good of the people of Kenya to ameliorate the suffering of the ordinary Kenyan people that is occasioned by some of these issues. view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move and request the Chair of JLAC, who had the responsibility and honour to get the public participation, to take us through the process of what they did. I want to dispute a statement by some Members that there was no public participation. I know that there was a lot of public participation. Before and after the publication of this Bill, there was public participation. We even had public participation in Mombasa. This Bill has gone through the most extensive public participation, including by all political parties who were invited and did their part. ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would like to thank Members for the rather exciting debate on this Bill that is meant to bring sanity on how political parties are managed; to protect the interests of members in those political parties and to protect the interests of political parties within coalitions. It will also ensure that not a single member will be expelled from a political party without the right to free administrative justice. Members asked about Clause 10. I want to disabuse this confusion. The current Political Parties Act of 2011 does not have a provision for fair administrative action. The ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: A Member raised the issue of a party register versus the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) register. I confirm that what this Bill intends to do is to cure the mischief where political parties that do not have even a register rely on the IEBC to conduct their primaries. So, only members who are in a political party will be eligible to take part in the primaries of that political party. Hon. Deputy Speaker, in terms of the timing for the Bill, I believe this is the time. It has taken us 10 years to revisit this Bill. The ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: (1) Legal Notice No.235 of 2021 relating to the Designation of Basin Areas and the Explanatory Memorandum from the Water Resources Authority; (2) Legal Notice No.250 of 2021 relating to the Physical and Land Use Planning (Liaison Committees) Regulations, 2021 and the Explanatory Memorandum from the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning; (3) Legal Notice No.251 of 2021 relating to the Physical and Land Use Planning (Development Control Enforcement) Regulations, 2021 and the Explanatory Memorandum from the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning; (4) ... view