James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: Sub Section (1) of that Clause says: view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: “A search may be conducted without a warrant in exceptional circumstances.” view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: That is where the problem is. What are exceptional circumstances? Who would determine whether in all those circumstances are actually exceptional? I think as a democracy, we have come to a time where we must protect the privacy of our homes and the privacy of our possessions. If this piece of legislation, if it becomes law, it will interfere with the rights to privacy. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: That somebody can just come in your house and say that I have reason to believe that you have committed an offence or I have reason to believe that there is something in your house and conduct a search. Sometimes they come at four or five in the morning, with the family asleep and they spend the whole day, take everything of value from the house without an inventory, or somebody is forced to sign that inventory. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: Sen. Farhiya, this law is not good for lifestyle audit. It is only as good as it protects the Constitution. Let us not give the law enforcement agencies opportunities to invade the privacy of people’s homes without a warrant. If it is a genuine lifestyle audit, there should not be a warrantless search. They should go to court. What is happening in our courts is that you can have a two paragraphs affidavit asking for a search warrant to go and search Sen. Wetangula’s house, without giving a proper explanation. Most of the time, the courts give these warrants, without ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: You will find when those things are taken from your house, you may not see them again. If you see them, you will have fought many cases in court. Sometimes, if they are things of value; there are no inventories taken. This must be made a lot more restrictive. You should explain what those unexceptional circumstances are. Who should be present during a search? What form of inventory should be taken? view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: There are cases where after conducting a search, there are no return of executions to the courts. They conduct a search; they go make all sorts of allegations that this offence was committed. They are given a search warrant, the officer goes and conducts a search and there is no return to the court. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: The person affected is not served or notified. Sometimes, you go back to court and get to fight from the Magistrates Courts, to the High Court and to the Court of Appeal, trying to make up a case and there is no conclusion to it. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: I plead with Sen. Farhiya that the provisions found in Clause 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, including the one about freezing accounts, should be thought of very carefully. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view