Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 781 to 790 of 6175.

• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move that the Committee does report to the House its consideration of the Landlord and Tenant Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 3 of 2021) and its approval thereof with amendments. view
• 24 Nov 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
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that this House does agree with the Report of the Committee of the whole House on its consideration of the Landlord and Tenant Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 3 of 2021). I also request Hon. Wangwe to second the Motion. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House does agree with the Committee in the said Report. I also request Hon. Wangwe to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Provident Fund (Repeal) Bill, 2021, be now read a Second Time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the principle object of this Bill is to repeal the Provident Fund Act. The rationale is basically to have all the funds regulated under the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which was passed by this House following the enactment of the new Constitution in 2010. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: As Members are aware, the Provident Fund Act is an ancient piece of legislation that has been amended several times. It can be traced back to the early 1950s, where it was set up for the benefit of creating a Provident Fund for Government employees. This Fund was meant to be supported through contributions by everyone in Government. Initially, it was referred to as the Government Staff Provident Fund, which was established through the Government Staff Fund Provident Ordinance, as was the nomenclature on laws. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, by dint of Section 24(8) of the PFM Act, the CS National Treasury is empowered to wind up a Fund with the approval of the House, where it appears to him or the National Treasury, that the Fund is not serving its intended purposes or has become defunct or dormant. This is exactly the situation we have with this Fund, which was started and has been overtaken by events. It has just been sitting there, doing nothing and it is not being operationalised. Hence, we now need to close it off and move whatever balance there ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: The PFM Act requires that this House be satisfied that the CS has ascertained and settled any claims due to the members of the public from the Fund; and also any claims owed by the public to the Fund are sorted out. I know we went through this. Clause 4 of the Bill, has provisions where before winding up, the CS will ascertain the status of the claims against the Fund and claims by the Fund. In terms of the membership of the Fund, immediately before the commencement of the winding up, they will continue for a while and not ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Basically, we have provided a mechanism for transiting the dormant Fund which has a Board. I think this came out clearly, when we were looking at the Asian Widow’s and Orphan’s Pensions (Repeal) Bill. These Funds were created in those days and have ceased being of use. But they continued being in the books completely with a whole infrastructure and the Board earning some sitting allowances while doing nothing, yet this is money we can spend on better things in this Republic. Again, this is probably the second piece of legislation following what the House approved this week, the repeal ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank Members for seeing the urgency of cleaning up some of these colonial relics. I thank the Committee for agreeing with us in doing it. I see concurrence in the House. I thank everyone. When something is so straightforward, we do not need to belabour the point. I see the mood in the House. I thank Members for the fast action. Probably, in the course of tomorrow, we should clear the Bill in the Committee of the whole House so that we clean most of these issues. view