President Kenyatta rejects controversial ICT Bill as he signs 10 others into law
President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected a
highly contentious Bill that sought to have all local ICT practitioners
licensed and registered by a council.
The Head of State on Tuesday sent the Bill back
to Parliament alongside the Insurance Professionals Registration Bill of 2020
and the Higher Education Loans Bill of 2020 with memoranda after they were presented
to him for signing by State House Deputy Chief of Staff Njee Muturi.
The ICT Bill
was introduced to Parliament in 2016 by Garissa
Township MP Aden Duale and supported by his nominated counterpart Godfrey
Osotsi.
It was passed by the House last week, sparking outrage within the ICT community which
was unpleased by the law as they said it sought to prevent some professionals
from practicing.
This
prompted a petition to stop the signing of the Bill that has so far garnered
over 12,000 signatures on the Change.org platform.
At the same time on Tuesday, President Kenyatta assented into law ten (10) Parliamentary Bills among them the 2022
Appropriation Bill, Supplementary Appropriation Bill and Finance Bill.
Other bills that were made into law include
the 2021 Radiographers Bill; National Electronic Single Window Bill; Traffic
(Amendment) Bill; National Government Development Fund (Amendment) Bill;
Supreme Court (Amendment) Bill of 2022; County Allocation of Revenue Bill; and
the Mental Health Bill.
“The second Supplementary Appropriation Bill
of 2022 makes available a total of Ksh.88,822,649,842 for Government
expenditure on public services among them the fuel stabilization fund which has
been allocated Ksh.49,292,440,866,” PSCU said in a statement.
"Other uses of the funds include drought
mitigation interventions such as provision of relief food; the national
fertilizer subsidy programme; settlement of ongoing road construction bills
which has been allocated Ksh.26.7 billion; and social protection and safety net
measures assigned Ksh.1.5 billion."
As part of the supplementary budget, the
Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been allotted Ksh.2.1 billion and
Ksh.1.37 billion to cover pending salaries and the ongoing revamping of primary
schools across the country respectively.
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