Amos Wako

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I will not talk about the recommendation on extending the mandate of IPOA because the Chairperson has mentioned it. The one of establishing a multi-agency taskforce has also been mentioned in a sense. However, I would add that most of those institutions that have been mentioned to be part of the multiagency taskforce are already a multiagency in one way or another. For example, if you had a multiagency taskforce on corruption, it will be the same institutions. We have a multiagency taskforce under the Committee on the Coordination of Justice and so on. In fact, they ... view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: I notice when it came to corruption, there was a plea that they should work in harmony, liaising between the Office of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the Judiciary and so on. It is the same code which they are calling on how to deal with corruption, that we are saying they should also deal with the issue of summary or arbitrary executions. view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, still on KPS, the fourth recommendation says that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government and the Inspector-General of Police to make regulations on the use of force and firearms to guide police officers as required under the Sixth Schedule of the National Police Service Act. This is very important. They should also have regard to the existing United Nations (UN) Code on the use of firearms by law enforcement agencies. They should also have regard to the detailed regulations made by the UN and accepted internationally on the use of force. In ... view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, let me talk about the 17th recommendation which was not touched by the Chairperson. It says that Inspector General of Police should ensure that the KPS have tags with their names and service numbers distinctly displayed whenever they are carrying out police operations. To me, that is a very important recommendation. This is because these days, people just disappear. They just come to your house and pick you up. They then allege - they may not be the ones – that they are police officers. You are then left with that impression; that is why people then ... view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of police officers having their names and numbers tagged on them is very important. Recently, some people went to the house of an advocate called Mr. Nandwa and took him away. The people who took him view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: away claimed that they were police officers. However, we now doubt whether they were police officers because the NPS has denied claims that he was in their custody. view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: If everybody knew that any police officer carrying out any official function must have his number and name tagged on them as identification, people would have confidence with the police officers. About two months ago, I visited Uganda and I was allocated police officers to my security detail. I was surprised that whenever I moved around with the police officers, people would salute. I asked them why everyone was saluting me, they replied that it was because I was accompanied by police officers. I was also pleased to learn that people recognized the police officers because of the name and ... view
• 9 Nov 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to second. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important topic on which I think I should speak. I would just like to remind you that I am Senator No. 1 and therefore, when I want to speak, I should speak. I think we have underestimated the importance of Early Childhood Education (ECD) in this country. We think that because it is at the very basic, therefore, it is county governments to deal with it. It is very true that under our Constitution, it is the county governments which have the responsibility to deal with education; pre-primary education, village polytechnics, ... view
• 13 Oct 2021 in Senate: 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