George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4621 to 4630 of 6196.

• 9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The idea of moving is that the House is made to fully understand. The Chair should go deeper than telling us what will not be liberalised. He should tell us the effect of that. If he uses those terms, we do not understand him. We may oppose because we may not know what he means. view
• 9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it was my intention to pass this Report. I am grateful to the House for the approval because I had read it but, maybe, for our future dealings, may it go on record that such an important Treaty should be given proper latitude for debate by the House – more so considering the fact that the House is not involved in negotiating treaties from the very beginning? This has been a very short and too rushed time for Parliament to seriously consider a matter of this magnitude. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy. view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would also like to thank my Chair for ably moving this important Bill. The matter of narcotic drugs has been an issue in our country and across the world for a long time. It has been so much that we even have United Nations conventions and conventions within our own continent dealing with the matter. We have had this law for a very long time. Our societies are still being destroyed. If you go to the Coast and several other places such as the frontier counties in the north, drugs are decimating our ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is a problem across our courts. The lawyers who are here can confirm this. You have a street boy there who was given cannabis to smoke. He goes to court and the hands of the court are so tied because the fine is 20 years or a minimum of Ksh10 million. So, what are we saying? We are saying that life imprisonment is mandatory, in addition to payment of fines, for cannabis traffickers. However, for consumers of cannabis, the sentence will be reduced to a maximum of five years or a fine not exceeding Ksh100,000. ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The second thing that we are dealing with in terms of the gap after punishment to deter drug trafficking is aiders and abettors. The apprehension of all drug dealers in the country is mostly in the vehicle of a police officer or a vehicle assigned to the police officer because it will not be easily stopped. In other cases, you get them in a vehicle of a State officer. You have heard of vehicles granted to Cabinet Secretaries and other State officers being caught conveying drugs. What does that confirm? It confirms that there is a way in which law ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: I thank you. Hon. Members, public officers and law enforcement officers use the vessels which are granted to them to serve public interest to convey drugs because there is no offence of aiding and abetting in their circumstances under the current Act. So, we are creating an offence against those law enforcement officers and public officers who will aid in trafficking of drugs and prescribing punishment for it. The additional punishment we are prescribing, in addition to those fines and custodial sentence, is that if you are convicted of using public facilities or vessels which are granted to you to ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: You saw the situation in the trial of the Akasha brothers. Our courts were defeated here because of the restriction of evidence that you may acquire by intercepting communication which they were easily compelled to release. So, we are creating provisions for limited and confined interception of communication under Article 24 of the Constitution. We are alive to the fact that there is a right to privacy and a right to communication. If you look at the proposed new Clause 80A, we are saying that only an officer at the level of a Chief Inspector can intercept information. They cannot ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: amounts to drugs and psychotropic substances, but are the chemicals which are then used to manufacture these drugs. We are bringing that range there so that it can be dealt with. Lastly, this amendment seeks to align the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act to the United Nations Convention on matters relating to drugs in terms of definition of what amounts to drugs. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not know whether I have time but because the Chair had ably moved, I request that this Bill… view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: This Bill will be looked at together with the additional amendments in the Report. I urge Members to look at them and join the Committee in support and approving this innovative legislation so that we can deal with this societal malady once and for all. view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and I second. view