Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order No.1, I hereby beseech you that you exercise your power to extend time by about 30 minutes. Secondly, also ask those who are already in the list to yield to Members who are not in that Committee. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I take this opportunity to support the Statement by the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. This is an important Report that has been prepared by the Committee to which I am a Member. The reasons I stand to support are, first, Article 2(5) the Kenya Constitution, 2010 provides that international law shall form part of the Kenyan law. Secondly, Article 2 (6) provides that all ratified conventions and treaties are part of the Kenyan law. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have ratified many human rights conventions that have now ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at the facts surrounding this matter, you see a situation where a poor boda boda rider and a good Samaritan was killed by a police officer for no good reason. However, my brother thought it wise to pursue justice on his behalf. I congratulate him for doing that. He will go far and no one will stop him. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: The effort that this House is making to ensure justice for that young person will set a precedent. Going forward, the police will no longer act with impunity once we ensure that justice has been achieved for this young man. Madam Temporary Speaker, Kayole Region happens to be home to many immigrants from Murang’a County. Eighty per cent of the people who live there trace their roots to Murang’a County. Therefore, when impunity is vested on poor young people by the police in Kayole Estate, I feel bad. My heart goes out to millions of young people from Murang’a County ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights is set to visit regions in Nairobi City County that have been affected by this problem. It is also planning to meet the Attorney-General, the Chairperson and Members of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) and visit other places, for example, Garissa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri. We will ensure that the police will no longer conduct these kinds of actions. We will also ensure that the various oversight entities bring to justice every police officer who kills a young person. Therefore, I rise to seek justice for the ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I will start by giving some responses to the Seconder of this Bill. He made some contributions which I would like to correct from where I sit. Number one, he suggested that the Mover should amend the Bill and provide for the concept of retrospectivity on the account that if you do not have such kind of a Clause, those who corrupted prior to 2020, will not be punished. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to differ. I am not so sure that such kind of a Clause can stand ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: this Bill is proposing to expand the scope of the functions of those bodies which have been mentioned in the proposed Clause 5. My brother from Makueni County has raised the issues that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ought not to have any interest in this matter. He thinks that the DPP has a vested interest in a criminal prosecution and, therefore, he is not the one who can negotiate with a suspect for what is called deferred prosecution. I beg to disagree. We all know that the DPP has the constitutional sole mandate of prosecuting suspects. We cannot ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: we can tidy up what I would call transnational justice mechanisms in the fight against white-collar crime. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also support this Bill because I have been reading newspapers, and we have people coming for vetting before the National Assembly. There is a correlation. Every time you see a nominee for the position of Principal Secretary (PS), they declare wealth of about Kshs200 million, Kshs300 million or even Kshs1 billion. Surely, this is happening in a country that is so poor like Kenya and this is a person who has been in public service through and through. We ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: extent, we need to laud His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta and support this Bill because it is part of the good efforts that my sister has done to support the President in that fight. I support. view
• 29 Jan 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow me to respond to that issue because it is a very weighty preliminary objection. I affirm that indeed, I, Irungu Kang’ata and Mr. Charles Njenga, have had a long pecuniary relationship in the firm of Muchoki, Kang’ata and Njenga. However, in respect to this matter, we have met, and I hereby declare that I do not have any pecuniary interest in this matter. Therefore, I will be asking you to find that, that rule does not apply to this instance. view