James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: If somebody wants to bring your business down, all they need to get is a freezing order and the cases take forever in court. In our country, the exception becomes the rule instead of what you have probably put here. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not take it for granted the fact that Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki is in the House during the debate of this Bill. We want to improve this important Bill. I am very happy that he is here. I have looked at this Bill in the subsequent sections about informing the persons who the orders are being made. Those similar orders are in the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act. Those limitations are not good enough. We should subscribe the activities of law enforcement agencies to make sure that innocent citizens do not suffer because this kind of ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: Like we, elected Members of the National Assembly and the Senate, you cannot lose your seat until the appeal process is complete. That was for good reason. You have got this term for five years and within those five years, you are going back to the people to see whether or not you should be re-elected. For example, if we change the law that the moment you are arrested, you lose your seat until you get an innocent verdict. If the case takes five years and you have already been thrown out of Parliament, how do you come back to ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: There are limitations that are even in the Constitution that are well thought out. A law is as a good as what would happen not to your neighbour, but what will happen to you. A lot of times, we, legislators, become the objects of this legislation. When the detention laws were being passed in the National Assembly, people in the Government and the Cabinet were being warned to look at this law carefully because they might be the first victims. Those detention laws were passed and the first victims were the very people who voted for the Bill. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: I do not want to make this point again, but I am a believer in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. I think we have the best Bill of Rights. Whenever you try to claw it back, I become uneasy because I have suffered from these kind of circumstances where you have committed no offence, but people appear in your house at four or five in the morning. There was a time the police came to my house and said I was holding seditious documents. They conducted a search and there was no such thing. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: I ended up in a court in Kisii. Can you imagine being searched here in Nairobi and taken to a court in Kisii? I spent one month in prison in Kisii before the case settled 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
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: and Mr. Pheroze Norjee stood for me. Sen. Wako will tell you that I had about five sedition cases which were unresolved. In fact, those files are still alive because those cases were not terminated. When somebody says that you have in your possession seditious documents and on that account, they come to search your house, that type of provision is not good in our type of democracy. When crime is being fought in the United States of America (USA), the people around President Trump at that time, the most powerful person in the world at the time, could not ... 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
• 14 Oct 2021 in Senate: This lifestyle audit gives you a choice that if you are a public officer, you have to make that choice. You have to live in accordance with Chapter Six of the Constitution and all the wealth that you acquire must be explained so as to give the public confidence that they have leaders who are looking after public affairs and public assets and not messing around. This is the problem that we continue to have in this country. When public officers are in situations where they can opportunistically make money, they then become our heroes. It has gone to the ... view