James Opiyo Wandayi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. That really shows the contempt with which people really view this matter that we are currently addressing. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: The country has been left divided terribly along very many lines namely ethnic, regional, racial, gender and many others. Therefore, this Commission was supposed to help us reconcile as a nation and move forward. That reconciliation was only going to be possible if the truth was known or unearthed. This is because there can be no reconciliation without the truth being known. There can also be no reconciliation without justice being done to the people against who injustices had been perpetrated for very many years in this country. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: It is important to note that the people responsible for occasioning pain and suffering to fellow Kenyans were not just ordinary people. Those who bear the greatest responsibility for the injustices that Kenyans have suffered in various parts of this country for all these years are not small people but are big people. This Commission was a bold step towards addressing this very serious matter. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Act deliberately ring-fenced the Report of the Commission against any possible mitigation or interference and that was the reason. It was clear that if the Commission was going to undertake ... view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: So, here we are long after the Report has been published--- In fact, even the Report was frustrated after it was published because there was no provision for the Report to be handed out to the President. But again that handover which is supposed to be ceremonial was delayed. Those who were doing this are the same people who have been named in the Report. Therefore, this Bill’s only intention is to create a convenient avenue to delete some of the names mentioned in this Report. It will be the saddest day in the history of this country when this ... view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I knew that I had to face a fight back. You know impunity fights back. Impunity manifests itself in various forms. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: This House is going to do what many Kenyans had feared would happen. It is going to create an avenue for the big shots, especially those who have the opportunity to sit in this House and to delete their names from this Report. What of those people who have been named and they are not in this House? Who will ever fight for their names to be removed from this Report? If we create an avenue for this Report to be mutilated, what shall we have said to the nation? That it was all a waste of time and money ... view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I can see the Committee is saying that by giving this Parliament an opportunity to mutilate this Report, it will guard against changing the context, text, form, sijui substance--- There is no way you can open debate on this Report without changing its substance, context, text, or whatever other thing you can call it. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, anybody who understands English Language – I hope he understands the English Language – will realize that the Report states thus: “Provided that any such considerations shall not interfere with the context, text, form and substance of the Report.” Once you give room to for this House to amend this Report, why on earth would you not be able to change the context, text, form and substance? It is semantics. It is taking us round in circles. The upshot of this is that they are sanctioning the mutilation of this Report. I, therefore, want to oppose ... view
• 27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to support this important Bill. It is a Bill that we should all support because for the first time it is going to bring sanity and order in the area of identification of national heroes and conferment of awards or honours to them. For a long time the matter of identifying and honouring heroes has been abused. If you look at the list of recipients of awards in this country over the years, you see a clear pattern of people who profess a certain ideological line. More often than not, you ... view
• 27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: There is provision in this Bill for financial assistance to the heroes who shall have been nominated. It has been a shame that in this country people who have struggled over the years to help bring the country where it is have ended up dying as paupers. We hope this is a matter that this Bill is going to bring to a close once and for all. I am also happy to note that there is a provision to withdraw the privileges that these heroes are going to be entitled to in the event the heroes go against the spirit ... view