Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: It states: “Pictures of grief, disaster and those that embarrass and promote sexism shall be discouraged.” We all know that this country has on several occasions had instances of grief. So, therefore when you tell the media that it shall not probably highlight such stories, we are surely gagging the freedom of the media. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: This one provides: “The media shall generally avoid identifying relatives or friends of persons convicted or accused of crime unless the reference to them is necessary for the full, fair and accurate reporting of the crime and legal proceedings.” Again, it is my opinion that we are intruding too much into the editorial right and freedom of deciding which matters should come from the media or not. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, the Second Schedule be amended view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Let me talk on that. The proposed amendments, I think, will be worse. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, let me oppose that 100 per cent in this sense. Journalists who practice at Milimani Law Court take photographs. You will find an accused person mobbed by relatives and a journalist taking photographs. The new amendment means that such photographs cannot be published--- view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: In my opinion, we should leave that to what we call “editorial freedom”. You see--- view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I withdraw my amendment. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: seconded. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: seconded. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the Chairman of the relevant Departmental Committee has admitted that he did not place a notice. Therefore, the Law Society of Kenya was not involved. Probably, the members of the public did not sufficiently respond to those issues. In so far as members of the public were not notified of the proposed changes, in my opinion, these are too radical changes for us to entertain at this stage. Secondly, we need to inform hon. Members on what we are objecting to. What we are objecting to is that if we pass these changes, if you are ... view