George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: If I were to meet them later, I would tell them that the vetting we are looking at is the sending home of everybody who is currently working in the Commission. I hope they will be fair so that we can constitute a team that can really fight corruption. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for the opportunity to address this matter. I sit in the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee and may I begin by telling the House that I am just returning from the United Nations Conference against Corruption on your own nomination, for which I thank you. First, the CJ is a citizen of the Republic of Kenya. So, as a person, he is a Kenyan. The CJ is a Judge of the Supreme Court. In fact, he is the President of the Supreme Court. So, he is a State officer. Of course, you know where I am ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: when Parliament needs to look beyond what has happened elsewhere to undertake its budgeting role. Hon. Speaker, when you make this decision, I request you to look at Article 95; the one dealing with the power of Parliament to appropriate funds to the national Government and the power to oversight those funds. Under oversight, we are told that nobody is an exception. You can summon anybody without exception. You can call everybody you want to come. I started by mentioning that I am from the conference because of the value I see under Article 10. I do not know whether ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Look at the manner in which this letter is copied. This is the Head of the Judiciary writing to the Head of Parliament not just the National Assembly. Even when Parliament sits jointly, the Speaker of the National Assembly presides since he is the Head of Parliament. The CJ is writing from organ to organ. Why did he have to copy that letter to the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party, the Chair and all the Members of the PAC, the Chair and all the Members of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: phrases like committee and others. We will call all of you to account for those monies in the oversight of budget. view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I thank you. view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the provision on limiting the trial span of a case to 12 months seeks to re-engineer how the courts dispose of matters. I support it. This being the Committee stage, I would like to say that it takes painfully too long for cases to be determined. For example, cases where public officers are charged in court and may later be proved innocent. They are suspended immediately the day they are charged and the trial span in those cases in our country is between five and six years. Through the delay, you would have essentially shattered and ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I thank the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee in which I sit. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- 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
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 36 and substituting thereof the following clause─ Power to punish for 36. (1) A person who- contempt of Court (a) assaults, threatens, intimidated or willfully insults a judge, judicial officer or a witness, involved in a case during a sitting or attendance in a court, or while the judge, judicial officer or witness is travelling to and from a court; (b) willfully and without lawful excuse disobeys an order or directions of the court in the course of the hearing of a proceeding; (c) within the premises in which any judicial proceeding ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: such proceeding is heard, commits an offence. (2) A police officer may, by order of Court, take into custody and detain a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) until the court adjourns. (3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five days, or to a fine not exceeding Ksh100,000 or both. (4) In exercise of its powers under this section, the Court shall observe the principles of fair administration of justice set out in Article 47 of the Constitution. The other regimes of contempt ... view