Calist Mwatela

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 291 to 300 of 702.

• 9 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Thursday next week will be better. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not come from the background of my good sister, Mrs. Millie Odhiamb-Mabona, but I followed her contribution closely and I was very impressed. I wish to state that, for a long time in this country, decisions have been made based on the anatomy below the shoulders. We have to shift from that and make our decisions not necessarily as lawyers or judges but, all the time, look at the credit of a person and forget about the issue of what sex that person is. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: That is the only way in which we can correct the inequality that has been with us for a long time, where the women of this country have been put to the back yard. Decisions on employment, remuneration and decisions in all kind of things should be made equitably, irrespective of which gender one is. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of using ICT in courts, we are very late. This technology is not only used for keeping records and quickening our decisions but is also used for interaction with the larger society. Our Judges must open themselves to views other than strictly those ones which are spelt out in the letter of the law. It is very important that a Judge looks at things beyond the written law. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: For a long time, Judges have kept aloof for reasons that the society itself may have pushed them to do so. We need Judges who understand the society they are working in, including the individual communities in the country. We need Judges who can make decisions which are relevant to the society. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have learnt from our mistakes in 2007. That is why we have taken this route. We may have been a bit slow in dealing with issues akin to the events that took place in other African countries, like Ivory Coast, where a decision was made as to who was the winner of the presidential election and somebody decided that he was not going to leave office; similar issues will be solved with the enactment of this Bill. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Up to now, we are grappling with that very sad situation in Ivory Coast. It is probably not fully settled. If we had a situation where courts were respected, and they exercised their jurisdiction, probably, that situation would not have arisen. Even in 2007, when we had the problem of post-election quagmire in this country, we could have easily gotten out of it if we had a Judiciary that was trusted. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of the persons who are going to be appointed Judges of the Supreme Court, I hope that members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) are not only going to look at the candidates’ paper qualifications. I am calling them “paper qualifications” because as much as I respect the very good qualifications of the Minister, who had a First Class degree--- On top of that, somebody should have demonstrated, either as a practising lawyer or as a Judge, that he was really above board. Let us not just look at whether one holds a ... view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: As my colleague, hon. Shebesh, mentioned earlier, we should respect history, only that we must be selective and borrow only the good part of history and dump the bad elements of history. There are very many good things this country has presented, one of which happened recently. I have just come from Tanzania, where I met a few legislators of that country’s Parliament. They are in praise of this country for the way the JSC conducted the interviews for the posts of Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice. We may not have necessarily gotten the best candidate, but that is ... view