Hon Francis Kuria Kimani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the laws of the land of any country should be consistent. The Bill, therefore, removes this conflict and potential inconsistencies with other laws. For example, a referendum can only be initiated through an Act of Parliament. This entails the creation of a law to initiate an amendment. The Committee made this observation and recommends that if the Bill passes, it should be the forum under which any referendum to amend the Constitution should be conducted. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: The Constitution provides, through the Elections Act, Section 52 (a) as read together with Section 51; that you could have a referendum that has multiple questions. This Referendum Bill, however, puts it in black and white that any Kenyan who goes to vote in the referendum either agrees or disagrees with the proposed amendments in the referendum. It removes all the grey areas and makes it a black and white initiative. It is either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ That makes it clear. Considering the clamour for amending the Constitution through the BBI and in future, I hold the considered view that ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Lastly, on the remarks made by Hon. Jeremiah Kioni earlier today about what he had worked on and what has been brought here now, when I was doing my research on this Bill, I went to the Table Office and I was asked: “Which Referendum Bill are you referring to? Are you referring to the one by the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee or the one by JLAC?” Although that has been sort of remedied by the joint report that you have shared with us now, it paints Parliament in a different way. I wish that, in future, any Member of ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: With that, I fully support this Bill. I urge this honourable House to do the same. I thank you. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. At the outset, I would like to congratulate my Chair, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, for having led us through this very good process. 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
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: This agreement was first of all signed on 7th May 2012 and that is the first time His Excellency the President signed this agreement. It has taken a cool eight years for it to come to Parliament so that it can be effected. What does that mean to the eight years that is has taken for this process to go through? There is a concept called the value of time. So, any business decisions that someone needed to make by virtue of this agreement means that they are eight years late. Eight years of doing business is so long that ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this debate. From the outset, I would like to say that I support this Sessional Paper. However, I would like to caution my colleagues. The gender discussion cannot be a woman discussion. When we talk about gender we do not talk about women. It is both men and women. Recently, Kenya became the first African country to carry out a census of another gender that we were calling intersex and it showed that we have 1,524 intersex people. These are people who are neither ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: have that thinking that a woman can only be to a level of a secretary. I am not saying being a secretary is bad, but there is a way as a society we have put women that shows that they are supposed to only do particular jobs. This needs to end. How do we achieve that? It is not just putting on paper like we are doing today, but change of heart as a country, community and as a nation. When we have places where we can employ people of different gender, do we do that? As Members of Parliament, ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: If there is a way it can be implemented - even before we wait to see whether the BBI Report will pass or not - in the current budget for the Ministry of Public Service and Gender and the Ministry of Education, it can be good. I have been telling myself that when it was school-going time, the Ministry would provide sanitary towels to girls. During the COVID-19 period, I have not seen any ministry distributing sanitary towels. What happened? Do girls get their menses only when they are at school and not at home? We need to be very ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: girl-child. No one should be left behind because of what is in between their legs. Nobody choses what is between their legs and so I support this conversation. Allow me to add one thing. It is very disheartening that we still choose to refer to “woman” as an insult. In 2020, we imagine that calling somebody “ mama”, ama “ako na umama ” is an insult. These are some of the discussions that bring us down as a community from having a harmonious gender sensitive community. With that, I support. view