Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before you came, I had an undertaking from the Temporary Deputy Speaker that has just left that you would not mind giving me just a few more minutes to explain what I must explain because it is important. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: If you go to the auditing sections, it says that the Commission shall prepare a report and submit it to the Attorney-General. That must have been a mistake. They must have meant the Auditor-General because this is auditing. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I will be over with this in the next five minutes maximum. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Well, you know Members will be saying this. Some of us have taken time to research to be able to… view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Alright. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Yeah, you know he is speaking, but he has already spoken and then he is directing me on how long I should take. I think this is a mistake, it should have been the Auditor-General because Clause 27 is the clause by which there is auditing. So, this report should properly go to the Auditor-General. After all, the Attorney-General is already the Chair of the Commission. So, how would the Attorney- General prepare a report to himself? It does not make a lot of sense. The last one has to do with rules and regulations. Article 29 needs to be ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg your indulgence. Before you step to the next Order, I request that in your discretion, you alter the Order Paper. There is a matter that is last on the Order Paper, the Judicial Service (Amendment) Bill. As the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, I have written a letter to the Speaker, and I have shared a copy with the Whip of the Majority Party, intending to withdraw the Bill completely. I request that we may want to deal with it and withdraw it rather than wait until the last ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. On behalf of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we wish to withdraw this Bill. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: The justification or reasons for which we do this have been explained in a letter to the Hon. Speaker, which has been copied to the Whip of the Majority Party. So, they are aware what is happening. The reasoning here is that the Bill seeks to amend Section 30(3) of the Commission’s Act. Section 30 of the Act, there was a High Court case, namely, the Law Society of Kenya versus the Attorney-General and another, 2016, Kenya Law Reports, which the court expressed itself and struck out that section of law as unconstitutional. It is this section that this Bill ... view