Joyce Akai Emanikor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: looked at. Looking at the latest development in the Judiciary, there is graft and cases of judges going outside the scope of their mandates and jurisdictions. I know of cases where a judge ordered that criminals should not be arrested or charged. There are judges who are partisan in their determination of cases. The Board should go further than just looking at backlog of cases in determining the suitability of judicial officers to serve in the Judiciary. They should go deeper into issues of graft in the Judiciary. That will make the vetting more meaningful. With those remarks, I beg ... view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to support this amendment to this clause. Generally, it is on incentives and benefits sharing. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support the proposed amendment by the Chairlady of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I am seeking clarification. When we delete the specification of male and female and substitute it with “parties to a marriage”, are we giving room to same-sex marriages? view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I would like to seek clarification that when we delete the words “male and female” and substitute therefor the words “parties to a marriage” does it give room to same sex marriage? In my view, it does. Is that what we want to be perceived? view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance. I rise to support this Bill because it provides uniform procedures for tax collection. This helps in consistency and efficiency. It also facilitates tax compliance. We know very well that this country loses a lot of money through defaults in payment of tax as well as non-payment of tax by unscrupulous business people in the private sector. This Bill will go a long way in improving tax collection. Taxes are the main source of income for the state, which is used for funding public expenditure, public programmes, goods and services. A ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: public officers. This also includes authorities of foreign countries with which Kenya has entered into agreements of sharing information. As my colleague said earlier on, these procedures should also be devolved to govern and regulate tax collection across the counties. Levies in the counties are currently not disclosed. They have become a conduit of corruption. The systems and procedures should be devolved to cover levies collected by the county governments. I hope that this will also motivate county assemblies to legislate on systems and procedures for efficient tax collection and accountability by the county government. Even as we strive to ... view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance. I rise to support this Bill. Even as I support the Bill, I would like to pick from where Hon. Jakoyo has left. I look at counties like Turkana, Samburu and others that are lacking in so many things. view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Before we even talk of the right to receive emergency medical treatment, in some areas, medical facilities are lacking. The doctor/patient ratio in Turkana is 1:1,000. The nurse/patient ratio is 1:5,000, which is really impossible. Medical facilities are also non-existent. People have to trek for kilometres. We are not even talking about affordability - it is accessibility. We are actually talking of the basics where physical structures are. We do not have medicine and vehicles. For some areas, we should be talking about the basics. view