Dr. James Nyikal

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• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: It also outlaws all the practices derived from all the issues whether they are moral, legal or social. There are many issues around this for example, the obtaining of sperms from young males has to have a law. We have sperm banks but there is no law regulating them. The obtaining of ova from young girls involves some form of operation, which I know is being done illegally and women can die from this. Obtaining of embryos or gamete – this is when you put the ovum and sperm together at the early stage and later on it becomes an ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: What about their donation, the banks and consent? At what age should a male be allowed to donate sperms and at what age should a female be allowed to donate an ovum? These are issues which will be addressed in this. After we have done this if children are born, to begin with there will be issues of parenthood. If you get a sperm from one person and ovum from another person and introduce it into another person or couple, whose child is it? As it is now, there is no law that clarifies this. You have to go to ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: It is also possible to do a sex selection during the process. So, some embryos will be thrown away because people are selecting the sex. But an embryo is the beginning of a human being. Do we just throw them away because we want a particular sex? This is important. When it comes to parenthood whether it is fatherhood, motherhood or if a woman carries an embryo to term is the child hers or the person who donated the ovum? So, this is an issue. What about fatherhood, can you imagine a situation whereby a young person in university donates ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: 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
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: The embryos or gametes can be used to clone human beings. This is because at an early stage you can divide an embryo into the numbers you want and have identical people. Where shall we stop? This needs to be looked into. Therefore, this law will help us with this. These embryos are also called stem cells and can be developed to produce organs at one stage. People can start to export them so that they are used to create organs that are sold. At this moment, we do not have any law stopping us from doing that. So, people ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need the law to help us in all these areas. In fact, all the fears, whether they are moral, religious, legal or social, if we do not have the law, are real. Anybody can do anything. For that reason, I support this Bill and call upon my colleagues to support it so that this practice can be done legally within our country. All other issues like tourism are secondary but this law can look into them as well. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. This is an extremely important debate we are engaged in today. The principle of private public partnership is actually a great principle that can facilitate development without straining us on taxes but, it is important to look at the relationship between the private sector and the public sector. As I see it, for a long time these two sectors, important as they are, have not had a very good relationship. The private sector has had a predatory approach to the public sector where if you get into a project ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: at the public sector as one that can easily be hoodwinked, where you can make huge profits, and where you really do not have to provide services as required. That is an unhealthy relationship. There has also been an assumption in the private sector that the public sector is incompetent although in reality if you go into the public sector you get the most qualified people. I think the problem there is basically the bureaucracy which I think this Bill will probably address. In fact, the recent performance of public schools during the COVID-19 period actually begs the question. We ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: of reach for the people. This is because it will be a futile effort and we could just take loans and pay them so that people do not pay the loans through the back door. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with that I support this, Bill. view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I also have not delved deep into this Bill. Do I get it from Hon. Oundo that, for example, that with this law, you cannot do a Harambee for a school? Schools are under national Government, they can use NG-CDF and money from the Ministry of Education. Will it be illegal if you do a Harambee for a classroom? I just want that clarification. view