John Muriithi Waiganjo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: society that stays at the pedestal. It is good that we have devolved their functions and their branches. We had their participation when we came up with this Bill. They came. It is the Council for the LSK which proposed that they be allowed to remain in their eight branches. Even as we have the 47 counties, we want to be alive to the fact that there is proposed to be a high court in every one of the 47 counties. So, the Council for the LSK must now also start thinking ahead and try to see how they can ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Not at all, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. What I said is that lawyers are important in life and in death. Even when you are on your deathbed, you need a lawyer to draft your will, not necessarily when you are dying. That is why I said that a lawyer at your deathbed is as important. The only reason as to why I mentioned that you need to have a lawyer on one side and an insurer on the other side of your deathbed was just to give an example of Jesus when he was about to die. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I did not allude to that. I did not, in any way, suggest that lawyers are thieves. I am a lawyer. I would be the last person to make such a suggestion. So, I delete the last part of my submission. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I unequivocally withdraw and express the fact that I never meant what it has been perceived to mean. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to talk to this Bill and I want to say from the outset that I am constrained to oppose it. Of course, the Constitution that we passed was very useful in that we were able to establish this National Police Service under Article 243. Under Article 244 we expounded the objects and functions of the National Police Service. Amongst them we said that we needed a police service that strives for the highest standards of professionalism and discipline amongst its members. We talked about prevention of corruption, promotion of transparency and accountability and a ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I want to tell hon. Members that when they are debating this Bill they completely disregard their side of the coalition and realize that here we are talking about the security of this 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
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: nation and prosperity. When we attempt to consolidate power around the Inspector-General of Police then we are going back in time. We are not giving ourselves time to think, meditate, and reflect about it. We are in the midst of trying to reform the police. We have a panel that is already vetting the police? But why are we forgetting the malpractices of our police? Why are we forgetting 2008 too quickly? Why are we forgetting the unresolved crimes? Why are we in a situation where this country is under threat of not only terrorism, but also of thugs, bandits ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: What I was saying is that we want to provide in Section 8A that the Cabinet Secretary will have a leeway to give instructions to the Inspector-General of Police on matters that are already a subject of Article 245 (4) of the Constitution; why do you want to legislate on that? It can only be for one reason, that is we want to legislate. That way we will remove the provisions or weaken the provisions under Article 245(4)(b) that are clear. I would like hon. Members to take note that there has not been a more serious issue in this ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: the police operate in the right way. In other jurisdictions the police are the most respected service. What happens in our jurisdiction? We want to give them land. We want to improve their remuneration. We want to give them equipment. We really want to pamper them. We want our police to be the best paid and the best in terms of discipline, so that we can eradicate corruption, but now we are taking our time to debate on amendments of a good piece of legislation not necessarily to give the police those amenities. If we were debating to give them ... view