James Opiyo Wandayi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to comment on the second petition by Hon. Babu Owino. The area he has talked about is one which I am very familiar with. view
• 25 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as the Departmental Committee on Energy deals with this matter, it must lay a framework on how future demolitions, if at all, will be undertaken. We cannot correct a wrong with another wrong. There are agencies that are supposed to supervise and govern processes of putting up structures, not only in Nairobi, but everywhere else in the country. view
• 25 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Therefore, once ordinary Kenyans have invested in buildings, it is not acceptable that others wake up one morning to pull them down. We need a mechanism of ensuring that there is adequate compensation in the event any structure is pulled down. This is because there are agencies which sleep on their jobs and eventually subject innocent Kenyans to suffering for the wrongs they have not committed. I wish that the Committee on Energy looks at this matter expeditiously and gives the way forward. view
• 25 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also think this is a very important Petition and it needs to be dealt with expeditiously as soon as possible. You will agree with me that land remains a very emotive issue in this country. Even though we need foreign investors, we should not do so at the expense of the ordinary mwananchi . The law should be followed to the letter. One problem - even as the Committee deals with this matter - is the NLC. That is because the immediate former commissioners and officers did this country a lot of disservice. I hope ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you very much. I also wish to add my voice to this debate. I support this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. Even though I have heard most of our colleagues expressing reservations, I do not think the entire Bill is bad. I have heard my colleague, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, lamenting very bitterly that the stakeholders he met during public participation rejected the amendments to the Merchant Shipping Act. That can be re-looked into but we should not throw the baby out with the bath water. There are very ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Kaluma will have a chance to speak. Allow me to continue. The reason I am viewing them positively is because there is need to decentralise the provision of legal education, particularly on the advocates training programme, from the Kenya School of Law to other institutions. Hon. Speaker, as you are very much aware, the Kenya School of Law is congested currently. That obviously compromises the quality of teaching and eventual products of the teaching process. It will be a good thing for the law to allow other institutions such as universities which have the capacity to partake this training ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of regularising the mandate of the Council for Legal Education. It should be the body that examines the students in the Kenya School of Law for the pre-Bar The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: examinations. There has been a problem in the past and Kenyans do not want to admit it. Because of the haphazard nature that admissions to the Kenya School of Law are undertaken, we end up having people with dubious training getting there. These are people who are purportedly trained outside the country in some funny institutions. They get into the Kenya School of Law and eventually go through the process and end up becoming advocates of the High Court of Kenya. This obviously poses great challenges. Therefore, the proposals contained in these two areas are positive. They can be made ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: It is also a fact that a lot of very weighty issues were sneaked into such kinds of Bills in the past. This is not the first time that Members are expressing concern here. We cannot do away with the principle of Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bills. It is better, as a House, to find a mechanism of ensuring that the final product reflects the wishes of Kenyans and serves the best interest of the people. view