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• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me also add my voice to those in support of this Bill. The fact is that it is very difficult to say what has not been said by my colleagues who have contributed earlier on. This is a very straight forward Bill. Let me talk about management and not the legal point of view. It is all about management. The title of the Bill is self-explanatory. It is about organisation and administration of the High Court. So, am concerned about the management point of view of the High Court. I like the overall principle ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: From the very many clauses in the Bill, I was able to point out seven issues from the management point of view. All of them have been spoken about, but let me highlight some. One, the High Court is being structured in order to reflect our current management system of governance, where we have a devolved system. Therefore, we are talking of devolving hearing of cases. What is being talked about is having, at least, a high court station in every county. That is devolution under the management of the governors. When we get a high court in every county, ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: As it is now, we have mobile courts. That is becoming expensive and, again, as somebody said, indeed, justice delayed is justice denied. You find that a county has, say, 12 sub- counties and the mobile courts keep on going round to those sub-counties. Therefore, it takes over three months to go to another sub-county. If we get those high court stations in every county, then the mobile courts will not be stationed at their sub-county level. If they will not be in all the sub-counties, at least, two sub-counties will share one mobile court. That will reduce costs and ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: From the management point of view and with this structure, we will now have proper record-keeping. This has been talked about by many speakers, but the cardinal point here is to have a database of records of the high court. If you devolve it to the county level, you will still have database that links all counties. We are now in a technological era. We should digitise those The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: records. You could have a network that is connecting the databases of records of high courts in all the 47 counties. If need be, we should have a central point - for instance in Nairobi - serving as a back-up of those records. Therefore, should a file, for any reason, be deleted by unscrupulous people, it would be easier to retrieve it. Look at what is happening today at Maseno University. Students or disguised local people burnt the whole administration block of the university to ashes. I do not know who they are yet. Investigations will tell us that. If ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: The third point is a little bit legal. It is about contempt of court. That has come up in every speech that has been given this afternoon in this august House. That is because of several examples. It is now in the public domain. Look at the cases, especially the one that caused the teachers’ strike. We had the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and Kenyan National Union of Teachers (KNUT) going to court now and then and each one disobeying a court order. So, every time, it was said that there was contempt of court by the parties. In light ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Number four is the appearance in court. It has been said that you can appear in person or your advocate can appear on your behalf. It should also include that you can appear by use of technology. We are in the 21st Century. We should reduce congestion in court. We should as well reduce time spent by personnel in court. Therefore, there should be an allowance for you to appear through video link, video conferencing or tele-conferencing. Let us make use of technology. We have a fibre optic cable which can accommodate all the uses of technology. My fifth point, ... view
• 27 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to add my voice to this Adjournment Motion. First of all, I congratulate the National Assembly because within the one month we have been here, I have seen Members coming together to debate and vote on four constitutional Bills. That is amazing. It is a great achievement. It is always said that getting two-thirds majority is not easy. However, because of concerted efforts and the bipartisan way this House has been conducting its business, we were able to garner two-thirds majority on four constitutional Bills in a day. That tells ... view
• 27 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to add my voice to this Adjournment Motion. First of all, I congratulate the National Assembly because within the one month we have been here, I have seen Members coming together to debate and vote on four constitutional Bills. That is amazing. It is a great achievement. It is always said that getting two-thirds majority is not easy. However, because of concerted efforts and the bipartisan way this House has been conducting its business, we were able to garner two-thirds majority on four constitutional Bills in a day. That tells ... view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:- Sessional Paper No.1 of 2015 on the National Policy on Elimination of Child Labour - Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services. The Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements of the Constituencies Development Fund for Tinderet Constituency for the year ended 30th June 2014, and the Certificate therein. The Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements of the Constituencies Development Fund for Mosop Constituency for the year ended 30th June 2014, and the Certificate therein. The Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements ... view