Erick Okong'o Mogeni

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Entries 1551 to 1560 of 1917.

• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: I think it is a grey area, but we can be trailblazers in this. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, let me first join my colleagues in giving hearty congratulations to Sen. Cherargei, the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights for this well documented report. In a country that respects the rule of law, extrajudicial killing is something that we should never condone. This is happening after we enacted ourConstitution in 2010, which gave a lot of hopes to the people of Kenya. It was the hope and expectation of many that with the creation of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), we will never have impunity within the police force. However, ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: This is something that we, as leaders and representatives of the people, should not tolerate. If we were to look at the weakness surrounding the law, you can never send a thief to catch a thief, it cannot happen. Anytime this happens, a comrade, a colleague of a policeman is the one who will investigate, conduct the arrest and lead the prosecution in court. I think that system has failed. I urge the Chairperson of the Committee - my good friend Sen. Cherargei - to consider reforms within the law so that we create a totally independent investigative authority that ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: It is unfortunate that often times, the people who fall victim to these extrajudicial killings are our youth aged between 15 years and below 30 years. These are the productive youth who we need to rely on in the coming years. It is not right. If we allow this culture to take root, let us not cheat ourselves that our children will be safe. Not at all! When our children leave our houses in the morning, you do not know where they go to. They walk all over this city and they can become victims anywhere. Madam Temporary Speaker, this ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the Chairperson for the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights is not gender sensitive. What a man can do, a lady can even do better. I laud that initiative by the Chairperson. I hope you can summon all the constitutional bodies that are supposed to ensure that there is accountability from our police force. As we look at legal reforms, let us put it in the law that any police officer who is convicted of having been involved in extrajudicial killings should personally compensate the families. These police officers know that when you ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue that has been raised by Sen. Halake is very important. This is an issue that needs to be escalated to the office of the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI). This is because what happens in most of these counties is that any time there is a visit by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) or the DCI, there is a fire outbreak and often times it is in the finance offices. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: The DCI should appear before this House and tell us whether investigations around the offences of arson have been done in any of these counties and there have been any recommendations to have the culprits arrested and charged in courts of law. This is just a scheme of some very unscrupulous people in counties to ensure that they destroy evidence, so that any attempt to nail them on corruption cases does not succeed. It is a very serious matter, and I hope that the Committee will not just stop at meeting some ‘small people’ here and there. They should meet ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. At times, desperate situations require desperate measures as long as they are done within the confines of the Constitution and the rule of law. So, for me, as a lawyer, if what was done yesterday is supported by our Constitution and by our laws, I am in full support. Let us not trivialize a very important article in our Constitution. Article 187 has a rider. Discretion is given to the two levels of Government. There are functions that can be transferred to another level of government if the other level of government can perform ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in Senate: Noted, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As Senators, as long as we have not breached the Constitution or statute and as long as what has been done is in the best interest of the people of Nairobi, we should support. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate Sen. Khaniri for raising this very important matter. We all know that the national Government has not paid pending bills. Courts of law have issued decrees for the Government to pay some of the pending bills that it has failed to pay. A very good example is the of the family of the late second political liberation hero, Hon. Matiba, who had a decree from a court, but he went to the grave before the national Government could settle it. That is a pending bill. Nobody has wielded a ... view