Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1231 to 1240 of 1711.

• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: marriage. If you look at the new Act and the regulations thereof, you realise that most of our people first do the traditional marriage before they do the formal one. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the requirements, there is need for some evidence to show that two parties are married, but you find that there is some kind of paper work that is involved because both of you have to write a statement and there must be a kind of mark – which I do not know what it means – of people who may have participated. ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: The other issue is that there are so many churches around the country. If you look at the procedure that qualifies one to be a minister to officiate in a marriage, you will see that there is a lacuna . Previously, all that one needed was a letterhead, which you would send to the Registrar of Marriages, pay Kshs20,000 and get a booklet with 100 certificates. Now you are required to pay Kshs25,000 and fill the certificate in triplicate, which is good. However, I would want to imagine that quite a number of couples may be duped into believing that ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I was personally shocked when I wanted to register my intention to get married because I did not know that I had to give a 21-days notice and pay some money. There was a long queue at the Office of Attorney General (AGs). After you have given the 21- days notice, you have to provide some documents, including the number of the certificates from the minister – which you will sign later. You have to give a three- months notice. The funny thing about it is that you cannot give that notice if it is more than three months. If ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Therefore, formalisation and the kind of stringent procedures that have been introduced so that people can access the legal status of marriage are prohibiting in a country where people are still poor; and where the youth are predominantly the people who want to get married, and might not have resources. Given that this is a country where the level of awareness and information dissemination is still low, these regulations need to be relooked. When we were doing our premarital class, we were told that before we could start the process, we needed at least four months to prepare. According to ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of those who may object to a marriage, given the fact that the procedure requires that the matter be looked into through writing and that the person in charge of the public place determines that case within seven days by either cancelling or postponing the wedding until such a time that a decision is made, there is a three-months notice; we need that to be done a little much earlier. This is because at the time the banns of marriage are read out in church, it is only about three weeks to the ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Some of these issues need to be looked at further. The Act provides powers for gazettement of the regulations to the Cabinet Secretary (CS). In itself, that law is at variance. During the Grand Coalition Government that responsibility was within the ambit of the Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs. In the current dispensation, we do not have a department for justice as such, headed by a Cabinet Secretary. We are dealing with the Office of the Attorney General. I do not know whether the law may want to reflect that as much as the AG sits in the Cabinet, ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Otherwise, as stated by the Mover, it is very important to decentralise this service, so that it can relate to the person. As I said, we have only three days that are important in life: when you are born, when you get married and when you die. Therefore, this service should be as close to the people as maternity wards and graves. view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to second. view
• 9 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this optional Protocol which falls within the ambit of the provisions of the Constitution in Article 2(5)(6) on how we, as a country, are supposed to sign international treaties and indeed optional protocols. The most significant thing about this is that there is really no treaty. We have an optional Protocol. This is because a protocol is supposed to ensure or give guidelines on how the Treaty itself is supposed to be implemented. We are alive to the fact that we are under the East African Community Treaty, and the countries that ... view
• 9 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: scenario, you will realise that at some point we were treated to the shenanigans of the costing of this project. This Parliament, through its committees, was treated to the theatrics of some officials not even knowing how much this project costs. Therefore, if and indeed, we are to get value for money, we need to ensure there is full and effective implementation of this project. If you look at our public debt register and the monies that we are paying under the Consolidated Financial Services, apart from about Ksh60 billion or so, we are using to pay for pensions and ... view