Beth Mugo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 301 to 310 of 977.

• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 10 of the Bill be amended in subclause (1), by deleting the words “approved by the Cabinet Secretary or his representative, in writing” and substituting therefor the words “prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary”. view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I oppose this amendment. The reason being because the Bill is not limited to police and health workers, any authorized person can implement this law. For example, if it is goods coming through our port, the Immigration Officers or the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) can deal with that. It can be importation like when we had the Chinese milk which was very bad and we had to use the port. view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I oppose this amendment. The reason being that some instances are emergencies. I will remind the hon. Members about the time when we had the Aflotoxin--- view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Hon. Minister, address the issue of constitutionality. The Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. That is what is being provided for. If the law that you are amending goes contrary to the Constitution--- view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the law guarantees the right to privacy but I think when there is danger of any sort and especially to life - and health, Bills normally deal with life and welfare of the people - that time we must be allowed to move fast. I would like to remind this House that when there was the case of Aflotoxin in Unimix children’s food, this House ordered that we remove all the Unimix wherever it was – and it was manufactured in this country - which the Ministry did. With such a law, we would have ... view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, it is to introduce the requirement of a court warrant. view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am opposing the amendment on reasonable grounds. I want to call to your attention to the fact that we already have this provision in the Public Health Act, which is what we have been using. It has never been abused. It is only used when there is utmost need. We are trying to realign the law, so that one Act does not contradict the other. view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I do not have any amendments to this clause. view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, there was this proposed amendment which I wish to withdraw. It will make administration--- view
• 20 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I withdraw. view