Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 May 2020 in Senate: purposes of helping this country, like this Bill and the proposals that have been made, so that we have unanimity? view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will be nice for the new Senate Majority Leader to be present when this Bill will be assented to. You and Sen. Murkomen never managed that. We pray that the prayers that Sen. Poghisio says can be heard. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Disaster management is a concurrent function. Sen. Sakaja and I had proposed a Bill that ideally would have settled the COVID-19 pandemic because in real sense, we do not need a separate Bill on COVID-19. What if it becomes COVID-20 but we have one on COVID-19? Do we do another Bill? What if when we have another pandemic--- view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Without a doubt. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir. That was my concern, but of more concern is that in the Bill, they have proposed a timeline and a sunset clause of two months after it is declared a pandemic. That in itself suggests that we have taken advice from doctors that a pandemic can only be two months. This particular pandemic could possibly last longer than six months. Therefore, I would love to see that considered. Somebody asked: “Why is the Public Health Act not part and parcel of the Health Act of 2017?” In future--- view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir. I was making reference to the fact that there is a problem about having a Health Act, a Public Health Act, and a Pandemic Response and Management Bill. In future, this Committee must propose that we amalgamate these issues, because they all sit under the same Ministry. They are executed by the same Ministry, and that is the reason I have proposed that even The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: in the creation of the fund, there is no reason to offend those rules because the Ministry has a fund. If we raise money for purposes of COVID-19, all we need to do is find a framework under the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act that can handle this. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, would it not be nice to have a sovereign fund to cushion Kenyans, like the one they have in the Nordic countries, as opposed to what appears as adhoc tax reliefs, which are not helping? There was an issue in the Bill about employers possibly giving their workers ... view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: In future, the country must invest in training and capacitating students from universities deliberately by training them all over the world to continue doing research. Our universities should get special resources through this pandemic, so that we can continue researching on these infectious diseases and many more to come. The people of Wuhan, where they thought this disease was over, have now five new infections. Chances are that we will live with COVID-19 until the end of this year. Therefore, I hope that the reliefs and things that this Committee has proposed in this Bill, which are very noble - ... view
• 5 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important issue. I would like to bring to the attention of my colleagues here, maybe, the ones who have been in Parliament for long--- I remember a gentleman by the name Mr. Njoroge who was the Controller and Auditor-General at that time. He used to perform the same function. I recall meeting a lady in Germany whom they call the president and is an Auditor in the same terms as the Auditor-General. I wondered why we amended our Constitution to include a Controller of Budget (CoB). To some extent, I believe ... view
• 5 May 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Ndwiga mentioned that coffee is grown in Makueni. I have nine coffee factories in my own village. I am proposing, for good order, let him send the report and then we can follow up later and deal with this issue as we go along but also address issues which were raised by Sen. Wetangula and Sen Malalah. Thank you. view