Milgo Alice Chepkorir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 721 to 730 of 1009.

• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, while the county governments have been assigned issues of entertainment as well as public amenities, the Bill has not spoken to such. In this case, how such centres should be set up in the counties should be provided for. This Bill will, therefore, play an important role to ensure that we provide for ways and means of establishing museums in our counties. view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: The National Museums and Heritage (Amendment) Bill, 2019, seeks to give effect to the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution as regards to the distribution of functions between the national Government and county governments. As it is right now, the Act actually strengthens only the national Government, and there is no provision as to how county governments will go about the issues of county museums. Once this Bill is passed, it will highlight or streamline ways of establishing such museums in the counties and managing them. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: The National Museums and Heritage Act was enacted in 2006, before the Constitution 2010 was promulgated. As such, it consolidated all the functions relating to museums and heritage as a sole function of the national Government. While the Constitution 2010 provided for a bi-cameral Government where we have counties, this particular function was not devolved to the counties. As things stand now, national museums and heritage are only controlled by the national Government, and county governments do not have a part to play. This Bill will go a long way in assisting counties to conduct several issues. We know of ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, since the counties are now fully functional, we ought to have sections of the national museums and heritage functions in the county. The National Museums and Heritage Act, which was enacted in 2006, only provided for management through the national Government. Therefore the National Board is just within the National Government. Therefore, there is nothing that has been described for the county governments. view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this Act shall provide for the establishment, control, management and development of national museums and the identification, protection, conservation and transmission of the cultural and national heritage of Kenya. Once this Bill is passed, the county governments will have a way of setting up museums in their counties, and they will have regulations on how to control them. They will also have a board to manage the museums; in this case the necessary regulations to develop will be stipulated in this particular Bill. The Bill will also help to identify ways of protecting the museums, together with ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember that in my own culture, the Kipsigis culture, there are many items that were used in the past, like the item that was used to drink the traditional brew. Recently my child was asking me the name of that item, which, of late, is not seen around. If we had such museums, we would keep such items there for posterity. There are even items that were used to grind millet flour which, in our culture, we used to call isiet and the goita. Madam Temporary Speaker, the establishment of Museums in various counties is long ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Right now, Madam Temporary Speaker, some of our kids do not even understand certain languages. When we speak, we have to go further to explain to them what we mean. I am sure that if we had Museums, we would request people who understand the languages to write books, which we will keep in the Museums. That way, the future generations will be able to go to the Museums, read and know the different types of languages in our country. As you know, language is very dynamic. I remember even the vernacular language that we used to speak has changed ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Act also establishes the National Museums of Kenya (NMK), which has the legal status of a National Statutory Corporation. The legislative proposal before the Committee seeks to align the current Act to be in conformity with the Constitution; and with the aims of devolution as outlined in Article 174 of the Constitution. The first crucial amendments to the Act are through Clauses 3 and 4, which seek to rename the National Museums of Kenya as the Kenya Heritage Authority. This is in order to distinguish the extent the Parastatal, as a body, is limited to the ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 4 re-aligns the function of the Kenya Heritage Authority by deleting the current Section 4 of the Act. Consequently, it replaces it with a set of new functions that are commensurate with the Constitution 2010. Clause 5 of the Bill also amends previous powers of the Authority and re-aligns them with the 2010 Constitution. Our major challenge is that the only authority that overlooks the issues of the museums is at national Government whose major sittings are normally done in Nairobi. In any case, once this Bill passes, this will involve all the 47 counties. The ... view
• 17 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, several issues were added to the Public Audit Act, 2015. Therefore, the National Museums of Kenya and Heritage are still using the old regulations. Once this Bill comes into being, the Public Audit Act, 2015 which is in place right now, will come into play and bring to speed what is happening in the national museums and help the county museums. Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 19 and 20 of the Bill seeks to amend the Principal Act to align with the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution by allowing the CS to make declarations on ancient and historical ... view