Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 3 and substituting therefor the following Clause- view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT the Bill be amended in Clause 7 by deleting the words “during the period of forty eight hours” and substituting therefor the words “on the day of the election or during the period of five days”. view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: The import of this amendment is that in the original Bill, the prohibition period; the period through which no publication can be made had been suggested to be 48 hours. But after consulting stakeholders, I have responded to the wishes of the media who do the publication, responded to the wishes of the pollsters and the wishes of hon. Members who had researched on this matter and found that a longer period of prohibition is better. So we have expanded it from 48 hours to six days, these six days include the day of voting and five days immediately before ... view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, allow me to clarify to the hon. Member. If the Bill is amended so that it reads as amended instead of reading that a person shall not publish the results of any electoral opinion poll during the period of 48 hours immediately preceding the date of the elections, it will now read as follows:- “A person shall not publish the results of any electoral opinion poll on the day of the elections or during the period of five days immediately preceding the date of the elections.” view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT the Bill be amended in Clause 8 by deleting the words “five hundred thousand shillings” and substituting therefor the words “one million shillings”. view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: The import of this amendment; again after consultation, I have been reliably informed that opinion polling is a serious business. I have got this information from the people who conduct these polls; they are a society called Marketing and Research Association of Kenya. They are telling me that this is big business and because it is big business, if we do not enhance the punishment, people can ignore the law because they know they will make a lot of money and still be able to meet the fines. So, they have enhanced the punishment that we take it from a ... view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report. view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Publication of Electoral Opinion Polls Bill be now read the Third Time. view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to thank all hon. Members of Parliament--- view
• 30 May 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view