Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I therefore rise to oppose this Bill. I do so because I was the secretary of the Cabinet committee that looked at Article 59(4) that provides that you can actually split the human rights commission into two or more commissions. What the Cabinet committee decided to do was to create three commissions: the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on Administrative Justice and the National Gender and Equality Commission. What has motivated this move by the Committee, which I can understand, is that they have looked at it as a gender equality commission rather than as a gender ... view
• 9 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: commission and move its functions to the human rights commission, the bigger loss is to do with gender issues. In terminology, you will never hear it again. What that means is that we are equating gender issues with human rights and equality issues. That is not true. It is broader than that. I think we may start by defining gender. Gender is basically a social construct in society as to the roles of the different sexes in relation to what we assign to them. This is something that changes constantly with the society. There are professions that were initially thought ... view
• 9 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: (Seme, ODM) view
• 21 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: This is exactly the same amendment that was proposed by Hon. Sankok and it was negated. It was negated. So, is it in order that it now comes up through another recommittal? It was actually done and it was negated. It is exactly the same. view
• 21 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: This is exactly the same amendment that was proposed by Hon. Sankok and it was negated. It was negated. So, is it in order that it now comes up through another recommittal? It was actually done and it was negated. It is exactly the same. view
• 19 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. view
• 19 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: I start by congratulating the Committee. They have done a good job. This is the third agreement they have brought to the House to be ratified in the same area. They are also talking about the forth one coming in soon. view
• 19 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: I support the ratification of the Agreement, which seeks to grant rights to designated countries to establish offices and premises to fly over our territory, land in our territory to discharge and take passengers, cargo, baggage, mail, and luggage. This is to be done without any limitation in order to allow unlimited number of landings by unlimited number of planes of all sizes. Any plane can land anywhere at any time, but of course, this will be regulated. That means we are basically creating a huge hub. One of the greatest problems in Africa has been the inability of Africans ... view
• 19 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: All this cannot be done through memoranda of understanding (MOU). I decry the fact that it has taken from 2008 to 2019 to move from an MOU to ratify this Agreement. That should have been done a long time ago. We know what MoUs mean. It is now time to ratify this Agreement. The Committee can go ahead and bring the Russian one and others to make Kenya a connectivity great hub of movement so that our people can enjoy the benefits that accrue from being a connection centre of not only Africa, but the world. view
• 19 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support. view