George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5421 to 5430 of 6087.

• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is a dangerous provision. I request my colleagues to read the clause proposed to substitute the existing one. We are proposing to give officers within the precincts of Parliament power of a police officer. My worry is with the words “have all the powers and enjoy all the privileges of a police officer”. I would have not rejected this provision if we gave these officers specific powers of the police relating to some functions and not all powers of a police officer. We are creating police officers outside the regular police service. It is dangerous. view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am standing under the relevant Standing Order seeking recommittal of a clause of this Bill. view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I am sorry Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was still on the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill. view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The House has spoken to the important matter we have. I am also noting there are more matters to be canvassed. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, would I be in order, with the indulgence of my colleagues and the Chair, to request that thee Mover replies? view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to address this very important matter. The thing that has bothered the country most about the organisation for our judicial system is access to justice. This Bill is a very good attempt in the direction of bettering access to justice by all Kenyans. If Members were to look at the proposals that we have made in regard to Clause 7 of the Bill, we are proposing an enhancement of the jurisdictions of the various levels of the Magistrates Courts. We are saying that a Chief Magistrate will have jurisdiction to deal ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Members have been explained to but I know some of us who were not there when the Chair was moving the Bill are still asking why are we are taking this jurisdiction so up. This is the easiest way to do away with the backlogs that we have in the court system across the country. We have seen Chief Magistrates being appointed judges. They do a very good job. The question we are asking is: “How does it help to have, for instance, a High Court in Homa Bay which is not able to do all that needs to be ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: There is a proposal the Committee is looking at which the House needs to think about much more deeply. We are proposing to confer Magistrates Courts with jurisdiction to hear employment, land and environment matters to the limit of their jurisdictions. I do not know how 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
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: deeply the Constitution will speak to it but assuming that the Committee is right in law, I would urge that this is the way to go. view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: For my own personal experience, we have a single resident judge of the High Court in Homa Bay. We know that we were to create courts dealing with employment, environment and land matters. So you have a single judge waiting for very few murder cases. We are lucky because we have very few people who engage in those very heinous crimes which have to be tried originally at the High Court. So, you have a great judge who is not seriously engaged but, when it is an employment matter, all the people of Homa Bay County have to move from ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I wanted to tell my brothers that there are cases in which I still appear in court, not as a party, as some of you think, but as an advocate for people. I have seen cases where orders are made for instance, evicting one spouse from the matrimonial home ex parte . In executing the eviction, the police go there with guns in the presence of the children, and things are taken to a leaky storage or to auctioneer’s places. You question whether it is evicting the man, woman, spouse or evicting the goods or the children’s property. We may ... view