David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 801 to 810 of 2320.

• 15 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: terminate at the Court of Appeal. That is why this court needs to be strengthened to ensure that it works well. view
• 15 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: This Bill creates a quasi-independent court of appeal that is able to, within its own structures and cadres, ensure that it is run in a manner that delivers justice. What is really interesting is that the Court of Appeal has had a very chequered history in this country. Before the new Constitution, it was the highest court on the land but you do not see serious jurisprudence coming from this court. You also do not see serious case law coming from this court. This is largely, in my opinion, because of lack of independence. With the new dispensation and the ... view
• 15 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: at the level of the Court of Appeal. This person will supervise the whole bureaucracy of the Court of Appeal. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you may not know this, but one of the major issues in the Court of Appeal or our Judiciary today, is that we have clerks who have been in some of these courts for as long as 20 or 30 years. When you post a judge to a court, the clerk tells the judge that, “we do not do it this way here.” With this kind of a system, we are hoping that the Judiciary or ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and I have had the privilege of going through this Bill from the initial stages. I am happy that finally we are discussing this set of Bills including what was discussed in the morning. The most important thing to note is that the country is now realising that the function of the Judiciary is not merely that of a judge sitting, listening and delivering judgment. It is a process; a process that must be managed. We also realise that judges are ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: As I speak, it is interesting that this morning in Ghana, seven judges were sent home because of corruption. It will interest you to know how they were discovered to be corrupt. Someone went round the courts filming how the judges conduct themselves. So, the idea that judges may be a law unto themselves is going to be cured through this Bill. We are setting up a system of ensuring that the High Court is transparent, and that a judge presiding over any matter is not the last person who has a say on what happens in the Judiciary. Establishing ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: travel to either Busia or Kisumu. We used to spend so much money. Now we have a High Court station with a judge in Siaya. That brings justice closer to the people. As we bring courts closer to the people, we should also ensure that the management systems are in such a way that justice works for everybody. Discipline is very important, not just among the judges, but also among all the cadres in the Judiciary, from the clerks to the registrars tasked with management at every station. This Bill creates a system where the Registrar of the High Court, ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Issues of young people are very important. That is why sometimes when writing them, you want to list almost everything. That is what Hon. Sakaja had done before. I agree with the Chairperson of the Committee that being brief and succinct, and clearly indicating the role of the Authority makes more sense. I hope that the Authority’s functions will be broad enough to capture everything. Thank you very much. view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The further amendment is just to take care of the concerns of the Members who have raised a very important matter. What I am proposing to do as a further amendment is to retain the original paragraph (g) of the said Clause and renumber it as paragraph (j). That is what I propose, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the original paragraph (g) read; “Two youths, one man and one woman, nominated by the National Youth Council and appointed by the Cabinet Secretary.” That is what we are bringing back and renumbering as paragraph (j). view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, one finger salute, indeed. In this Parliament, we do not make laws for Ugandans, Tanzanians or any other country. Laws that are made by the Kenyan Parliament are made to have the force of law on Kenyans. So, any idea that someone says that using words like “Kenyan” and many others would mean something else is wrong. This is our Constitution. Laws that are made by this Parliament only have the force of law within the Republic and within our hallowed borders. Secondly and most importantly, in this country, we have people who look for jobs ... view