15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
is a problem or not. I am not a lawyer, but an economist. I have not seen provisions in terms of how somebody who is unable to pay for services can be assisted. We can insert such provision during the Committee Stage. I have two or three cases where somebody needed help. There was an old man who came to my residence last week. He said that his son, who was suspected to have committed murder, had been held in custody for the last six months. He had no money to get a lawyer. The man had a problem. It ...
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
With those few remarks, I support the Bill.
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, without interrupting my brother here, I have presented some further amendment to this Motion. I wanted that to be taken into consideration so that the next contributor should have it in mind. I do not know whether some---
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Most obliged. Thank you.
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1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to take note of what His Excellency the President said. One, I want to thank him for having upped the fight against corruption. Many institutions and the good parastatals we knew of are doing very badly, particularly in the sugar sector. After this storm - I call it a storm because it has never happened - I expect the President to sustain the fight against corruption. My worry is that this Report came prematurely because the status of most of the investigations is not clear. Some of ...
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25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I normally speak Kiswahili when I am talking to my people at home, but I will speak in English here. I support the Motion brought by my sister, hon. Wanjalah which seeks to translate most of our laws to Kiswahili. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank His Excellency the former President Moi, for having made Kiswahili a national language. We should be proud of it because of the way the people of Mombasa speak Kiswahili. I urge the Government to give more money to the National Council for Law Reporting to be ...
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25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly:
Secondly and more importantly, is the fact that if we leave things as they are, we run a danger of distorting the original Kiswahili and instead coming up with “SHENG.” The youth are now using “SHENG.” which you may not understand. If we leave it as it is, we will have a language problem. Therefore, it is necessary for us to allocate enough money. I want to ask the Budget and Appropriations Committee to do this in the Supplementary Budget, so that we can give money to the Council and have some of these laws translated into Kiswahili.
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25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly:
About 90 per cent of Kenyans can read and write. In most cases, prescriptions are written in English. Many people do not understand those prescriptions particularly our mothers and those who are half literate. Therefore, this forces the pharmacists to put most of this literature in Kiswahili for our people to be able to understand the prescriptions. With those few remarks, I support.
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25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, in the interest of my understanding this, this allocation of revenue, and before the Chair--- I wanted to find out the Kshs4.5 billion---
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