Hon Francis Kuria Kimani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this chance to support this great Bill by this honourable Member from my home county of Nakuru, the Member for Gilgil, Hon. Martha Wangari. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: There is no greater calling than that of parenthood. However, parenthood cannot be described by the deoxyribonucleic acids orDNA as we call it. What should define a parent is the love that a mother or a father has on a child whether or not they are biologically related. Therefore, this Bill requires that a parent,whether a father or a mother, who wants to adopt a kid be given a chance by law to stay with the kid for a minimum of three months, just like it is required when a mother gives birth to a baby. This is a very ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: In 2019, the quality of our labour should not be how many hours, how many days or how many months that an employee puts at work. We should move from a time when people had to report to work at 8.00 a.m. and leave at whatever time they need to leave, be it 8.00 p.m. or 9.00 p.m. irrespective of the state of mind of those employees. I was looking at a photo circulating on social media of one billionaire, Richard Branson, the owner of a great airline having found an employee sleeping at the workplace. He took a photo ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: This brings us back to where we are as a country. In African traditional set up, children grew upas children of the village. Any grown up person would reprimand a child because of wrongdoing. Every parent had a responsibility of making sure that they shaped up children in society in such a way that their morals were what were expected of them in the society. The moment we locked ourselves up in gated communities and dropped our kids in schools with cars and made our kids untouchable, the fabric of our country left us. The amendment proposed by the Member ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: necessarily by our biological parents but by people, who adopted us, for example, by family members who took care of us. Therefore, it is only best that this be anchored in law so that it is no longer a favour that you are doing to somebody who wants to adopt a kid. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The issue of how long and whether it isaman or a woman adopting a kid, we have come of age as a country. It is not just mothers or women who can adopt children. Fathers, too, can do so. A man can adopt a kid. I expect that this Bill realises that that kid as adopted by either the father or the mother gets the same right of spending that time with the parents. I will go with the proposal by Hon. Martha – of three months. When a kid is adopted by a couple, then I would propose just ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am rising on a point of order according to Standing Order No. 97(1) that we limit the discussion on this matter to five minutes per Member. That is so that as many of us as possible can get a chance to contribute to this great Motion by the Hon. Member. view