Augostinho Neto Oyugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: In Clause 17, we are speaking to an appellate process for denial. We know some refugees will be aggrieved by the fact that they will not be allowed to settle. We have established a Refugees’ Appeals Board where every refugee will have a chance to appeal the decision of the Refugees Eligibility Committee. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, Clause 20 of the Bill talks about cancellation of refugee status. We are saying that once you get refugee status, it is not absolute. The Director of Refugee Affairs can cancel that status if the persons fraudulently or misrepresented facts the time the status was given to them. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Under Clause 21, there is a provision for the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government to actually revoke the refugee status. So, refugees or any person who applies to be a refugee should know that granting of refugee status is not absolute and that can be taken away from them. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Under Part IV, Clause 28 of this Bill, we have established something we hope, in our view, is going to help Kenya deal with the refugee problem. We have established reception centres. We have said that the Director of Refugees shall, by notice in the gazette, designate refugee reception officers responsible for every gazetted and authorised entry point in Kenya. For every single border, we will request the Director of Refugee Affairs in conjunction with the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government to gazette those points as refugee reception centres. That is going to help us have records ... view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 29 speaks about what will be the duty of a reception officer. Every reception centre will have a reception officer who will be in charge of the refugees’ affairs like getting their biometrics and channeling all the records to the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: There are other durable solutions we had proposed but Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security agreed with us to drop some of them. We had been ambitious to propose access to land, citizenship and education for refugees. The Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security agreed with us that some of those provisions were fairly ambitious. We agreed to retain only Clause 34 which talks about access to work permits and employment to refugees who are professionals. There are refugees who are doctors, lawyers and scientists who because they do not have access to employment and work permits, spend ... view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 33 of this Bill talks about the non-refoulement principle. It is a principle of international law that says that no one should be turned away from a country where they seek 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. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: asylum. The non-refoulement principle is important because it ensures that every refugee from whatever country can be assured and given protection in a manner that is important without being turned away to where they fear they will be persecuted. It is important for us to retain this international principle. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 42 of the Bill also speaks to the fact that the Director of Refugee Affairs shall have a chance to designate transit areas where various refugees can stay together. view
• 23 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 44 speaks to an emergency or prima facie scenario of refugees. There were moments when war broke out in countries like South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi. It will be difficult to determine, on a case to case basis, the status of refugees from those countries. Good international practice has it that if at all, for example, there is war in a particular country, then the Commission and the CSs for Interior and Coordination of National Government and Foreign Affairs can agree, for example, to make such countries have prima facie refugees. This will ensure that they are not subjected ... view