Joshua Ojode

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is against the law to mix the male and female in a cell. If, indeed, it is true that they are mixing both male and female in one cell appropriate action will be taken against the officers who are doing that. As of now, I want to assure my colleagues that we will build modern facilities. Once we get the money and the estimates, I will allocate funds so that we can have modern facilities as cells and not prisons which fall under the Office of the Vice President and Ministry of Home Affairs and not ... view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will order the Director of Operations to go to Wang’uru Police Station and check what we can do as an adhoc measure in order to separate the groups as the Questioner wants. Otherwise, I want to say and assure the Questioner that we will definitely come up with something so that we separate the two cells. view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologise for coming in late. This was due to the fact that I was still looking for some documents in order to give back up on this Question. view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: That is true, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to reply. (a) If you may recall on 6th April, 2011, I answered this Question through Question No.810 on the deaths of the two brothers, John Kamuri and Peter Irungu who hailed from Kahuro District. By then investigations were ongoing and I, therefore, promised to table the reports of the investigations once they were completed. However, I have not tabled the reports since the file has been forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice. Earlier on, a total of 45 witnesses had recorded statements and the file forwarded to ... view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, issues pertaining to murder are not taken lightly. We have a process. We have written letters to the DPP who also raised issues with the CID Director and we resubmitted what the DPP wanted us to do. It is now upon the DPP to release to us the file with some comments. That is when I will give a report to this House. Under circumstances where someone asks a question and he wants me to give a report the following day, if that report is within our parameters, I will exactly do that. However, if we ... view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when this case came up, the police officers managed to arrest 45 people. Those are witnesses. Then we requested the police to fast- track the file in order for us to charge the suspects. We cannot ordinarily do that without getting the DPP’s approval. So, within my mandate, we have done what it takes. We have so far performed and I want to commend the police officers who have done this. We are awaiting the approval by the DPP. view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Chair is absolutely right. That is why we have written four letters on the same that we need to fast track this in order for us to do the work. I will still put a lot of pressure on the DPP in order for us to continue. view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a sub judice case, but let me just give him the background. We have so far arrested 45 persons, some of whom are witnesses and some are suspects. There is no way you can just arrest suspects without the witnesses. The police has the mandate to ask whether you are aware of the death of so and so. We must have witnesses also. So, in total, we have arrested 45 people. There are those who are suspects and those who are witnesses also. view
• 15 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was just giving the number of suspects who have been arrested. Within those whom we have, we have a total number of 45. The witnesses were not arrested. The witnesses are the people who are helping us to get to the bottom of this case and they are doing a good job. This is a very serious case and we need to fast-track the file in order for us to take these people to court. That is exactly what we are going to do. We will not leave anybody. view