Irungu Kang'ata

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Entries 951 to 960 of 1643.

• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Motion brought by Hon. Ochieng and say if we want to fight hunger in this country, I would propose we invest a lot of money in food security. I am aware of a lot of money that was sent to the National Irrigation Board to revive irrigation projects in this country. By doing that, the Government was envisaging that we shall mitigate against hunger and starvation. Therefore, I propose that the Government hastens those projects. We have one in the Coast region where it has been envisaged that one million ... view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support and oppose some sections of this proposal. I support the idea to prohibit plea bargaining and collusion to sexual offences matters proposed in this Bill. It makes a lot of sense. Victims of sexual offences have been coerced in law courts to enter into some plea bargaining. I want to urge Hon. (Ms.) Mutua to provide in the Bill that there will be no nolle prosequi and withdrawal of any matter of sexual offence and to let the court adjudicate until the matter is finalised and determined by a court ... view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: sex matters. Putting this role to third parties/strangers does not make sense at all. Therefore, I want to state that sex education should be left to parents. I oppose the proposal of placing that role to the teachers. These things are against our African culture. They are things that we do not discuss in public for a good cause. In my area, you can tell children who have undergone education through schools which have strong religious orientation. Those children tend to have better outcomes as opposed to those who go through a school that has no religious orientation. It makes ... view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: people are going to be in a lot of problems because one can argue that there is intentional act, where you are carrying a woman behind you and she is touching you when you are riding your boda boda . As a strong proponent of boda boda people here in this House and a believer of the rights and the needs to create employment for those young people in that sector, I cannot support such a liberal and wide definition of “indecent act.” Remove this clause. view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Apart from that illustration of boda boda as rightly denoted by our substantive speaker, you would imagine this definition may include contact between passengers in a vehicle and several other places where people usually come into contact notwithstanding 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
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: that, that contact is not intended for anything wrong. Therefore, you need to check on that definition. Again, there is also this proposed amendment to Section 30 of this law where you are saying: “An employer shall confirm that a person seeking employment to a position of care or access to children or vulnerable persons has not been charged or convicted of an offence under this Act.” view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: To me, the idea of barring people who are charged but not yet convicted from getting employment is quite troublesome because, as you know, the law and the constitution is very clear that every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. So, to me, the right word should have been “convicted” alone so that you do away with the idea of being charged. You can as well be charged and then thereafter you are acquitted. Therefore, having been acquitted should not mean that you will never get employment to such kind of places. So, you should do away with the ... view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: With those few words, I support. view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this Report and ask Members to ensure that we do not ratify the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The reasons are as follows. This Agreement will cause massive unemployment in our country. Why do I say so? When governments introduce very many regulations in their economy; and, when governments comes up with very many policies which entrepreneurs must adhere to, the net effect is they make investment too costly. This is one of the endeavours of this document. I will give you a very good example. Since we established the entity called ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: 0.0007. This is very small and very tiny. Surely, what has climate change to do with us? To me, if I were a serious policy maker, I will go and announce: “Hey, anyone who wants to come and establish a coal plant? Come! Anyone who wants to establish whatever? Come! We do not look at climate agreements because they are fake.” After that investors will flock here. We should start thinking about climate change when we become rich. But you cannot think about climate change when you are a poor person. Surely, these are rich man’s talk shops. Hon. Deputy ... view