James Kembi Gitura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5531 to 5540 of 7781.

• 15 Jul 2014 in Senate: Draw the Bar and open the door. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in Senate: Next Order! THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND DISPOSAL (AMENDMENT) BILL) (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BILL NO.31 OF 2013) view
• 15 Jul 2014 in Senate: Order, Senators! If you want to withdraw, please, do so quietly. If you want to consult, please, consult in low tones because we still have Business in the House. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in Senate: Order! Sen. Kajwang, you have not been added any time. You were just being warned that you are in your last five minutes. view
• 10 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am shocked that my friend Sen. Khaniri can make that kind of statement because he is the last person I expected. Having said that, each one of us has a road or roads that are outstanding regardless of where we come from. That is a fact. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am convinced that the Chairperson of this Committee is not going to do justice to the answers being sought. I support Sen. Wetangula and I know you have given a direction on this, but we will ask them for more information. Although she has already said ... view
• 8 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is my position as the Senator for Murang’a County that any teacher who commits an act of carnal knowledge against a pupil should be sacked forever. He should not be reinstated to that position if due process is followed and he is found to have been guilty of that offence. I am asking this question more for a policy than anything else. The teacher was charged as it were by the TSC with the offences stated in the statement. This is having carnal knowledge of a Standard Five pupil. He went before the committee and the ... view
• 8 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is where all those things that are mentioned were found not to have been true, that he had not committed the act of rape or that he had not had carnal knowledge of the young girl and that he had not procured an abortion. The court of law also found that no proper investigations had been done in this case. The question I want to ask the Chairperson of the Committee is this: What is the policy of the Government? Does the TSC Act override the rights of a teacher if you are charged under the ... view
• 8 Jul 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. With all due respect, I do not know whether or not it is not because Sen. Karaba is not a lawyer. But what does he mean that the teacher took himself to court when I said he was charged in a criminal court? You do not charge yourself in court, you are charged by the operatives of the law. Can he make that clarification when he says the teacher took himself to court, this is not a civil case. view
• 8 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with all due respect, I want to submit that Sen. Karaba, the Chairperson of this Committee does not understand this issue because he must distinguish between a disciplinary action by the TSC and the regime of criminal law. I want to go on record as saying that I cannot possibly support a teacher who has carnal knowledge of a pupil. My conscience cannot allow it. But I am also a lawyer. There must be due process. If the teacher was found not guilty and Sen. Karaba needs to understand that he was charged and prosecuted, he did ... view
• 8 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with the greatest respect, this is the most unsatisfactory answer I have ever heard in this House because it says nothing. What I was seeking is the policy statement by the TSC and not a cursory answer the way that it has been done here. However, if that is what they know, he still has not answered several questions, particularly on policy and also whether there is in place the code of conduct that Sen. Wetangula was talking about. He has not tabled any policy or code of conduct that overrides national laws or what has happened ... view