Dalmas Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 251 to 260 of 321.

• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. This Bill provides a framework legislation which I think we need to develop much further. We have come forward in a country where there are millionaires out of crime. We cannot deal with the drug barons. We cannot tame corruption and this is the tendency in this country; that so many people are determined to be millionaires out of crime. It is good that the Bill proposes that even economic losses would be subject of compensation. We must make it expensive for anybody ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I would suggest, therefore, that the surcharge levy proposed in this Bill should provide that any crime committed in this country, where a victim can be identified, if the fine is due and the bench levies a fine, a percent of that fine should be credited to the 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
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: victim protection trust fund. This will ensure that we add that responsibility to the fund. It will be able to represent all victims of crimes in all criminal proceedings so that they present the case of the level of compensation that is appropriate and the judge or the magistrate shall determine a figure that should constitute compensation. This will ensure that the current practice where a trial goes on and a person is convicted, fined or jailed and then somebody who is a victim has to come later to commence civil proceedings against the criminal is done away with. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Criminals are very intimidating. So, that fund should have the capacity that wherever there is a victim and the trial is going on, they will pay for victims to be represented during that trial and present the case on the level of compensation. The bench trying such a crime should be able to pronounce itself as to what amount of compensation should be added to the fine or alternatively the surcharge is a percentage of the fine that will be so levied. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is still another area which I think we need to develop after further research into this Bill. We know those criminals have partners within the law enforcement agencies. If they do, what happens where we have a victim, but we cannot secure any conviction against the criminal? The State should nevertheless pay the compensation necessary to that victim, whether there is a conviction or not. So, we should again require the bench to determine that under those circumstances, he or she cannot convict the particular suspect in that case. However, the court should still pronounce ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I think the general principle we should adopt in implementing this section of the Constitution is that all victims of crime should be compensated in this country, either by the criminals or by the Fund. This will ensure that all the criminals know that they will not get away with it. If you have committed an offence, where there is a victim out of your action and the offence provides custodial sentence, you nevertheless would have to pay for the compensation of the victim who suffered in your hands. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you may have read in the newspapers that a number of Members of Parliament living in Karen have been victims of gate-hijacking and so on. What happens when law enforcement agencies cannot reach those people because of intimidation? That fund should take to court the requests of victims that they should be compensated regardless of whether the law enforcement agencies have succeeded to get and capture the criminals or secure a conviction. Some of those may require further research in the law of evidence and further research in the fine components in all the proceedings that ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: those victims of the class of crime to which you are being convicted today, even if there is no specific victim for the circumstances under which you are caught selling drugs in this country. I wish to thank hon. Millie for bringing this framework Bill, but further research has to be done to enrich this Bill so that any Kenyan criminal knows that they will be responsible today and in the future out of the costs to our society from their criminal activities. I hope appropriate wording will be provided under different offences where victims do arise. view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and hon. Chris Wamalwa for giving me the opportunity. I want to emphasize that we have not done enough in support of agriculture. It is time we reviewed all the institutions which are supporting agriculture in this country. That is because the future of this country is actually in agricultural industries. Most of the other conventional industries have not succeeded to go beyond 13.5 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: To grow the industries, we have to support agro-industries and that means we start with agricultural production. The first step which I support in this Motion, is that we should first view and build all institutions supporting agri-business in the country. Second, we must be able to channel more capital, both from Government and mobilized capital from the people of Kenya, towards the support of agriculture in this country. Whether, they will be co-operatives or any other institutions like banks and so on, supporting agriculture is something we must do urgently. view