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Entries 12761 to 12770 of 17810.
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2 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
We are in the National Assembly. Hon. Speaker, I beg your direction to withdraw.
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2 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, hon. Mulu raised a substantive matter. Through your direction, I want him to appear before the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade tomorrow morning, so that they can hear him and agree on the Motion. Secondly, I have absolutely nothing to apologise for or withdraw. What I said, and I will repeat it, was that you do not behave--- Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona will agree with me. I was a member of the funeral committee. I did more for my good friend, the late Senator Otieno Kajwang’, than what hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna, the Women Representative for Homa Bay, ...
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I support this amendment. I share the view of the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that communication should be mandatory in the first instance when the person is arrested. That will ensure that the family of the arrested person is aware. Thereafter, the other expenses can be taken care of by the person detained. 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.
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you.
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I support this amendment. In the days we live in now there is a possibility of transmission of diseases, especially when we use bare hands. The police could be interrogating and searching many people at any given time. The issue of personal safety is of paramount importance. It should be taken into consideration. The maner in which it is done, as it is envisaged in our Constitution, should be in a humane way instead of being roughed up.
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I support this amendment. The current situation is that most of our law enforcers, especially police officers, arrest somebody who is well but if, as a relative, you visit him hours later, you find him in very bad shape. Apparently, the police sometimes use force to punish a person to get information, something that is not allowed under the law. It is wrong. Any officer who abuses a person who is deprived of liberty should be subjected to the due process of the law, and the courts should be the ones to determine the ...
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I beg to get more clarification from the Mover. Is there any provision in our laws in which hard labour is prescribed? The Constitution, in terms of protecting the rights of a person, is quite clear: 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.
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
whatever the punishment may be, it should not be with intent to harm a person beyond the bearable ability of a human being. I thought this law would tame the courts, in terms of their old practice of sentencing people to hard labour. The Mover needs to give us a bit of clarity on that aspect. Maybe, this is a good law. Maybe, it is a way of eliminating the element of hard labour. Is it not just a practice of the courts, or is it based on any law? We should consider that aspect. If there was no legal ...
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. We need to be careful with this amendment because it might actually be inconsistent with Article 49 of the Constitution, under the rights of an arrested person. I want to refer you to Article 49(1)(f), which requires a person to be brought before a court as soon as it is reasonably possible. It further goes to say within 24 hours after being arrested. If a child is arrested and is held for seven days, that would actually be unconstitutional. If a person is arrested, that person needs to be brought before a court of ...
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27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
parents of a child, especially here where we are talking of a minor, will not have known the whereabouts of the child for all that period of time. We need to be a bit careful with the extent to which this may be inconsistent with the Constitution.
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