Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1751 to 1760 of 3161.

• 14 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it seems okay unless you introduce tuition. Once you introduce tuition, we should give it time and consult more on it like with Clause 48. view
• 14 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support it. Once you bring that, you cannot know the burden you are creating. So, if you leave it, policies will be formulated as has been said. I support that amendment. view
• 14 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is a monitoring issue. At times, it is necessary to have a certificate back once it is revoked. It may be revoked, but people may still use it. If you have a strict monitoring system, then that is fine. Returning the certificate upon revocation may help. Expiry is different because it carries the date and if anybody sees it, he will know that it is expired. A revoked certificate may be used unless it is surrendered or destroyed. We may need to differentiate revocation from expiry. For revocation, the certificate should be returned to the ... view
• 14 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I did not get it clearly. The general trend is limiting any form of regulation check-up by the county governments. If you look at early childhood education, we will have thousands of schools all over. If we leave all this to the national Government, even without some delegation, then we will have a problem of very many of those schools and people who are not checking. So, I just want to hear more details about Clause 72. view
• 14 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: This is an extremely important new addition. At least, we can be sure that wherever children go, they will get the same education. But New Clause 21A(g) says; “met such other requirements as the committee executive committee member, in consultation with the County Education Board, may consider necessary for the delivery of quality early childhood education services within the county.” Would it not have been necessary to put some guidelines in line with certain guidelines or we leave it to the County Education Board to ensure that people do not go overboard? It is these openings that people tend to ... view
• 9 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I just want a clarification in terms of process. As you say, if we consider this first, the other one fails. In that context, it would have been better to have this one first. If it passes the other one is not necessary. My fear is, if you remove that, then I would have preferred the two-thirds one. Which one do we start with? That is the guidance I am seeking. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. It is very refreshing that we have this Bill with us. We have had a dark history in relation to torture in this country. Unfortunately, for a long time, it related to officials of the State. Thanks to the UN Convention and our Constitution particularly Chapter 4, the Bill of Rights, which I consider the most important Chapter of our Constitution after devolution. We are now putting forward a Bill that prevents torture. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: I support this Bill because it defines torture, cruel and inhuman and degrading treatment. It seeks to prevent all that. It establishes mechanisms for redress, support and assistance. It defines clearly what that is. It is also refreshing that it actually gives an opportunity for an intermediary to act or talk on behalf of the affected person. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Part II of the Bill defines what crimes are and prohibits any justification whatsoever for committing these acts on a person. It further defines aiding and abetting and it gives powers to our courts to specifically act on these crimes. More importantly is the power it gives to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and that perhaps is the most important part I see in this Bill. The Commission has all the powers from investigations, promoting rights of the individual, freedom of the individual, getting all the information, monitoring that there is compliance to the law and to issue ... view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: This Bill clearly states that there is no justification whatsoever for any form of torture, be it mental or physical. Regardless of what purpose that may be put forward for committing what is now definitely a crime, whether it is for obtaining information or it is for meting out punishment for suspected or alleged crimes, there are procedures for doing that. This law now states that you can only go through the legal process and not use torture to get information. view