James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: I support and second this Bill by Sen. Mwaura. This is the first step. As he said, there will be consequential legislation. This is not only in terms of Statutes, but even regulations to some of the Statutes. This will make it consistent with what is being achieved by this Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill seeks to amend the Registration of Persons Act. If you look at the Title, it speaks to that. In terms of Clause 1 and 2, this captures who an intersex person is. The definitions that are there are plain enough and not complicated, for ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: I am afraid that these provisions are made in a mandatory form which I think I am prepared to live with. They should remain so because even people who are described as male or female have a duty under the law to be registered as persons. For the reasons which were clearly articulated by Sen. Mwaura, I wanted to draw his attention to Section 14 that talks about Offences and Penalties. Section 14(1) (a) of the principal Act says- “Any person who- (a) fails to apply to be registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act; or---“ The Act ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember at one time when President Museveni said that sometimes you can find a person who wants to invest in Uganda; the person is very enthusiastic and probably has visited Uganda before and loves the country. However, his first point of contact is with the immigration officer who may ask so many questions that in the end he says: “I have a visa, I have a legitimate reason to come to this country, but now that I am being asked all these questions, I had better go away. After all, it is my money.” view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Some of these laws can be frustrating. It is not the mistake of the person who is seeking registration, but it may be used by registration officers to punish those who we should not be punishing or prosecuting. In effect, I support that this Clause should remain intact as it is. However, I urge that at the Committee stage or even before, we can continue to debate on this matter and have a new section or a proviso to that Section 14 that I have been reading, so that we do not punish intersex people for a reason which is ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: To that extent, South Africa has done so well in opening up and making sure that sexual orientation is not a matter to bring about discrimination. You can see even the leadership there from the President down talking about the gay community and so on. Here we are still trying to live in the past. There are many other things the world is coming to live with and we cannot be an island. Even as we say we are a nation of religions, we must also remember also there was one time that Kenya---. It would rather be said that ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: You will find that in India, a population of 150 million Muslims can live with 600 million Hindus. Even in Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants have been fighting for centuries. Visionaries like Mahatma Gandhi were way far ahead of their contemporaries in many matters. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, without taking any more time, this is a Bill that I should commend to my brothers and sisters in the Senate. Now, in the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, Sen. Mwaura has done well although, it is not a whole chapter as it were. He has spelt out clearly what the objectives of this Bill are and why it is relevant. He has stated that this law is not in any way going to limit any fundamental freedoms and rights of any persons. In fact, it does the opposite; it expands the human rights of persons who ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: I hope that by discussing this Bill, the intersex people living with us should come out without fear and know that they are truly Kenyans. Like any other Kenyans, they should enjoy all the fundamental freedoms that are spelt out in the Constitution. Our Constitution was very well considered. The rights and the freedoms under the Constitution are not the only ones. There are others. Human rights cannot be abridged; they go beyond what is stated in the Bill of Rights. Let them come out as patriots and let churches, mosques, temples and other religious organizations also come out. The ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: I am sure that in some of the churches, these people are stigmatized. If they continue to do that, they are disobeying the command of providence of the Almighty. That is not what religion is all about. With those remarks, I beg to second and thank Sen. Mwaura for bringing this Bill. view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view