Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Let me start by thanking the Committee for the work it has done. Chairperson, I think you are a special Chair of the Committee. We really appreciate you for the work that you have done. What has come out is a much broader system issue that we seem to be looking at. If you look at the recommendations that you have made, which I support in total, then we have to look at the whole system. Look at the police offices and the infrastructure, including the corridors which on. ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: injured and cases of rape. Sometimes, even collecting bodies is part of Police Coroner Services. That is when people are picked and bodies are there. Even post mortem, we had a lot of that here, about the coroner services. I do not know how far we have reached. Even that is something that you have to look into. So, what we are looking at is a whole system that needs to be worked out from the structure, the people that are involved, the people who come for their services, the people who are in the cells, the people who will ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you. It is not only for COVID-19. We are not even thinking about Tuberculosis (TB). It will be the same for all those contact diseases. Let us use the issue of COVID-19 to get that system working. We should get a committee to give us a system that will protect everybody. When you finish all your visits, get that committee in place and let us see how we can approve a whole system that will look at infectious diseases in the justice system, including prisons. view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I know you are referring to the rule of relevance. The whole reason we are looking at the Calendar is because of Covid-19. As I sit here, I feel sad! We are appealing to people on what they should do, not realising that there are guidelines that are in place. What we should then be asking ourselves and the 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
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Ministry of Health is this: Who is ensuring that the guidelines are adhered to? This is why, as the Departmental Committee on Health, we were very concerned. We called the Cabinet Secretary last week and he did not come! Today, he did not come. Although there was relaxation, people have not gone according to the relaxation measures. They just dropped everything. There were rules on how to handle funerals and churches. So, what is the issue here? I want to take this opportunity - and I hope somebody from the Ministry is listening… The Ministry is letting us down because ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. It is clear that the Sessional Paper is a revision of a document that was done in 2000 – the National Policy on Gender and Development. From that point alone, there is need to have this document. If a document was approved in 2000, it must be reviewed now. The constitutional changes that have occurred such as Articles 10 and 27 of the Constitution imply that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: the document is no longer relevant. This review is coming a bit too late and that is why we need this Sessional Paper to do that review. Since that document was approved by the Cabinet, we have had many laws such as the Matrimonial Property Act, the Marriage Act, the Land Act, and the Trafficking of Persons Act. All those Acts cannot be in line with a document that was done in 2000. Things have changed. We must support this Sessional Paper. The need for equity and equality between the two genders is something we need. My colleagues have talked ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are party to many international agreements and conventions. In March every year, we go to New York in large numbers for the Commission on the Status of Women Conference, to listen to nations giving reports on the status of women. We are party to that event and we attend regularly. We are also a party to the Commission on Total Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Maputo Declaration within Africa. There is no question as to whether we should discuss this, but we are just doing it as a formality. We must support this ... view
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to discuss this Bill. Let me start by congratulating the Mover of the Bill. This is a small but important Bill that seeks to protect land that belongs to public institutions from grabbing, encroachment and retrieval. I like where the Bill insists that, where land has been bought by public companies, cooperatives and SACCOs and divided and allocated to individuals, 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
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: the pieces that are allocated for public utilities must get their titles before others get theirs. What has happened is that when public lands are given to public institutions, they have no titles, boundaries and land beacons. They are, therefore, prone to being reallocated and being leased even when the public institutions own them. We have many examples where public schools are allocated land, leases are given and sold out, then people attempt to acquire those lands and move out the children from those schools. So, this Bill is important. In situations where people have given out land to schools ... view