Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: THAT, the Bill be amended in the proposed amendment to the Sexual Offences Act, 2006 Act (No. 3 of 2006) on page 1116 by deleting the proposed amendment to section 38. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this amendment is on page 1116 of The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill and on the Order Paper is on page 3673. The intention of this Bill is to delete Section 38 of the Sexual Offences Act--- view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to draw your attention to the provisions of the Sexual Offences Act. This is the section that provides insulation against prosecution of people who want to approach the court based on false allegations. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, with your permission, the insulation reads as follows. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: “Any person who makes false allegations against any other person---” view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady. It provide as follows:- “Any person who makes false allegations against another person to the effect that the person has committed an offence under the Sexual Offences Act, is guilty of an offence and shall be liable to punishment equal to that of the offence complained of.” view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I am begging the House to realize the import of this; that if we allow people who have no basis in their accusation, very many women will be falsely accused of having attempted to rape boys and very many men will be falsely accused of having attempted to rape women. We would like people who approach court for this kind of offence to be guided purely by fact. I, therefore, move that this amendment be deleted. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, very important issues have been raised by hon. Members some of them who are prominent lawyers. Allow me to persuade them. I am one of the least people who can turn against women because in my own family, God has blessed me with many girls. I know the challenge of this. However, speaking about what hon. Wetangula spoke about as a lawyer, on the issue of perjury, the lawyer knows that he is misleading us. The punishment that accompanies perjury is a mere six months or so but the point that he has missed is that ... view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Number two, the Attorney-General has complained that unless he removes Section 38 he would not know how to deal with rogue police officers. I want to refer you to Section 47(a) of the Sexual Offences Act. Section 47(a) which is right where you are gives you and the Chief Justice an opportunity to draw rules and regulations that can guide the kind of officers like those who are misleading. So, the law is adequate the way it is. Finally, when this law was brought by hon. Justice Njoki Ndung’u, at that time, rapists were still being jailed. The reason why ... view