Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1281 to 1290 of 1643.

• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, there are two issues. One, there have been several rulings on the issue of Members of a Committee coming here during the plenary and changing decisions. I seek your guidance and direction on that matter taking into account the fact that one of our Members of the Committee did not dissent officially during our meeting. I seek your guidance on that. Two, we should also ensure that any law we make rhymes with other pieces of legislation. I draw your attention to a problem that has been in the law of succession and the Marriage Act ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Well, I have no specific dates but I know that there is a principle that when you are Member of a Committee, when you come to the plenary, you are supposed to adhere to it. In any event, there is also the legal principle which is called view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: which means you are stopped from changing positions. I pray that if you do not find it in precedent, you find it under the principle of estoppels that my colleague here is estoppelled from coming and changing positions. As to the issue of the specific law, I refer to the definition of “family members” under the Marriage Act which we passed recently and we see whether that law rhymes with the proposed amendments. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise on a point of order with regard to the issue of relevance. Is the Member in order to address himself on issues which are not before us? I have heard him and I have also heard the Professor from Kisumu address themselves on issues which are not before us. Before us, and this is very crucial, is about ranking between School “A”, “B” and “C”, but not individual ranking per se . I beg to illustrate the point. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. I rise to oppose the Report of the Committee. It has rejected the proposal by the Senate to fix county headquarters. The reason I am opposing 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
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: is because of Murang’a. I have seen from that Schedule that the proposed legislation had proposed to fix Murang’a Town as the headquarters of Murang’a County. As an area Member of Parliament (MP) for Kiharu where Murang’a Town is, I am very happy with that proposal. I would never want a situation where Murang’a Town is no longer the county headquarters. There have been whispers in my county that people have been proposing to move the county headquarters from Murang’a Town to another place. Those whispers are wrong and I thought this Bill by the Senate would have ensured that ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I have also seen several pieces of legislation where they have expressly stated the location of the headquarters of that entity. If we were have been doing that, what is wrong with us specifically providing for the headquarters of a certain place? There is nothing wrong. If we do not do that we may be creating a very major lacuna. For instance, we are going to elect a governor, who using his own whims, may as well decide to change the location or headquarters of a certain county. That is going to bring a lot of chaos and acrimony. I ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: massive investments. Assume you are from another country and you want to know the county headquarters of a county so that you invest your resources there, you will find it difficult. You will be going round and round inquiring where the headquarters of, say, Garissa is. You may as well be told it is Garissa Town. After you pump in millions and billions of shillings in Garissa Town, a governor wakes up one day and decides to shift the headquarters of Garissa to, say, Garbatulla. To avoid such kind of shenanigans we need to specifically provide for the headquarters of ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am going to express the effect of hon. Kaluma’s proposal, which I support 100 per cent, in very plain language. Before the enactment of the new Constitution, people used to rely on the Children Act to vindicate the rights of children. If a child was born out of wedlock, that child tended to be disadvantaged. The person who was escaping liability was somehow favoured. Why? The first thing the court would ask you was, “Were you two people married or had you cohabitated for more than one year?” If a child was born and there ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: was no marriage or cohabitation for one year, then it was easy for the person who had fathered that child to escape liability on the basis of provisions which exist in the Children Act. With the enactment of the new Constitution, that changed. Article 53 says that whether the child is born in a marriage, cohabitation or not, they have equal rights. However, the Children Act has not changed. Once we effect these provisions, what will be the practical effect? It will mean that children who are born out of marriage will get equal recognition in law as those children ... view