Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.13 of 2018) be now read a Second Time. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The Bill was published on 10th April 2018 and was read the First Time on 18th April 2018 pursuant to Standing Order No.126. The Bill contains amendments to 15 different statutes. It seeks to affect minor issues. They are minor, in various Acts that do not warrant the publication of separate Bills. For the information of the membership of this House, this was also done during induction. Whenever we have minor amendments to statute laws, we usually come up with an amendment Bill. This is the second one. There was an earlier one. This is to help or otherwise, reduce ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Act, Cap 490 by creating a new class of members of cooperative societies targeted towards social impact investments. The Bill seeks to safeguard members’ rights in the cooperative societies by giving the Cabinet Secretary supervisory powers to prevent oppression of members by creation of such new classes. Further, the Bill seeks to limit the voting powers of social impact members to specific resolutions, maintenance and operation of the proposed special fund, an investments committee, remuneration of the special fund trustees and similar affairs. Members will be limited to resolutions that are on special funds, investment committee, remuneration of the special ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: appointment of a special fund trustee, who shall be responsible of receiving and investing the special fund. This is trying to expand and I am sure Members looking at the Bill can see how the amendments will improve the SACCO Society Act, No.14 of 2008. The eighth Act is the Urban Areas and Cities Act, No.13 of 2011. The amendment in this Bill is to introduce a new subsection to Section 3 that requires counties to comply with the National Urban Development Policy. As you are aware, county governments are key stakeholders in urban development. In the initial Act, it ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: It also proposes to amend Section 64 to provide for the recognition of both national and county level projects. When they are removing the functions of the Committee to the Cabinet Secretary, the additional amendments are to align the changing of the roles from the Committee to the Cabinet Secretary. That is why the other sections have been amended. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The eleventh is the Crops Act 2013, No.16 of 2013. The Bill seeks to amend this Act to provide for the benefit of value addition to agricultural produce in relation to export. Again, this is similar to the ones I talked about earlier. It is part of the Jubilee policy of value addition and also enhancing manufacturing to create employment. That is why the President, in his wisdom, thought that he should allow value addition so that as we export our goods, we export them in an already value-added form that is completely manufactured. This will attract more revenue for ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The twelfth one is the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority Act, No.20 of 2013. The Bill seeks to amend this Act to provide for the mode of appointment of the chairperson of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA). It also seeks to provide for the involvement of county governments in the board of the Authority. The Bill also seeks to provide for the appointment of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: the corporation secretary of the Authority in accordance with the Mwongozo guidelines for the management of State corporations. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The first amendment is also very clear such. Yesterday when we were dealing with the Health Laws (Amendment) Bill, this issue came out on how we should involve county governments. At the end of the day, three quarters of health functions are devolved to county governments. Other than the higher levels of medical institutions, most other institutions are under the management of county governments. So, it is in order for this amendment to go through. I want to convince the Members listening to me to support this amendment, so that county governments are involved in the management of KEMSA. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The thirteenth one is the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Act, No.29 of 2013. This Bill has proposed to include the Principal Secretary to the National Treasury as a member of the Certification Council. The TVET is one of the major programmes that this Government is running. I am sure you are aware that right now, over 136 technical training institutes are being developed across the country. Most of the funds come from the National Treasury and this is a way of recognising the Principal Secretary because he is the one in charge of the funds to TVETs. He ... view