Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2951 to 2960 of 3161.

• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, as we go along in this Act, I notice that the general public are not being protected. This Act, to a larger extent, is just protecting the journalist all along. For instance, when you say in relation this Act, it assumes that if anybody has a complaint, he has first of all, to understand the Act. Earlier, we had indicated that only on ethical issues. What about other issues that affect people? In my view, that addition “in relation to this Act”, if the Chair is agreeable, should be deleted. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I will seek clarification just to understand this. If a journalist has a camera and the camera belongs to the employer who is the media house, then the destruction of that camera does not fall under here. Perhaps, if his shirt is torn, then that would apply here. Could I be made to understand? view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: When I supported this Bill, I said that it is reasonable that when a committee has done something, it should come before this House. But when I ended I said, but that should not be used to sanitize the report. Everybody who is here is entitled to their opinion. Some of you may not have seen what happened in this country that brought this report to us. When people died in Naivasha, Nakuru, Eldoret and Kisumu I was there. We wanted peace, so we put up a committee. We cannot come here today and say that we want to change ... view
• 4 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Mine is a clarification. Whereas I agree that it is fair to say you will have the largest body representing workers but in practical terms, it is not clear to me how that will be view
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• 4 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I do not agree with this amendment because the three-year term for the Managing Director is a relatively short period. I get the impression that what the Committee thought was that six years is a very long time for somebody to serve and they will not have time to probably terminate his or her services. If there is need then we should have this person serving for more than one term. I would have preferred, and I do not know whether the Chair agrees, that we give the person a five-year renewable term and but he ... view
• 4 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: If on the other hand there is a feeling you may be giving somebody five years and you do not know what to do in case of a problem, there are other provisions that will enable the organization to get rid of that person. I think a three-year renewable term is too short. In that case, I would prefer to have just six years. However, my proposal, if the Chair agrees, is that the Managing Trustee should serve for a five-year renewable term and cannot serve for more than two terms. view
• 4 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady that has been my endeavor and I was looking at his face--- view
• 4 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose this Bill for very basic reasons. One of the reasons is that miscellaneous amendment Bills are meant to deal with minor amendments and correcting typing errors, ambiguities in the law and so on. That is the explanation we have had. This particular miscellaneous amendments Bill contains numerous substantive changes in several Acts. Again, the process of bringing this Bill to the House bypassed a stage which, in my mind, is extremely important. This is the stage when we have a report of the committee of this House. We hear that the ... view
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