Martha Karua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to remind hon. Members, and also the Mover of this Motion, that every hon. Member of Parliament is entitled to approach any of the Departmental or Parliamentary Committees even when you are not a member to give your ideas. Therefore, the Mover and any other hon. Member who feels that they have ideas which could help in the war against corruption in this country can and should approach the relevant Committees of Parliament, give their ideas and read the reports that these Committees are giving to Parliament and enable us to move ... view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member, who has just come in apparently, may not have been listening. I have not said hon. Members of Parliament are not serious. I, as an hon. Member of Parliament and the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, I am giving my views on how May 31, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1041 we can strengthen the war against graft. Unless the hon. Member is suggesting that there is nothing more we can do to improve, then he would not be objecting to what I am saying. There is nothing good in my view that ... view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. We are being taken by surprise because we do not know exactly what the hon. Member is trying to amend. I mean the question of his further amendment has not been put and it has not been circulated to hon. Members. So, we are at sea! view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I wish to oppose that amendment on two fronts. To begin with, it was not circulated to hon. Members. It is, therefore, not fair to hon. Members. But more substantively, according to Criminal Law, the Republic is always the complainant. Every case filed against an accused person in a criminal case is done so in the name of the Republic. It is the State that is the protector of its citizens. Deleting the word "Republic" is trying to make it as though sexual offences are different from other categories of criminal offences where the Republic ... view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to second the amendment which strengthens the clause. view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: He has withdrawn it! view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Chairman Sir, could I be allowed to make an amendment to that amendment? view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, that amendment is good but it should be further amended. 1088 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 31, 2006 I, therefore, beg to move:- THAT the Bill be amended in Clause 11 by inserting a new paragraph (6) as follows:- (6) Any person who commits the act with an adult is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding Kshs50,000 or both. view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. The reason I am giving it latitude to five years is because sometimes in these cases--- I have been both a practitioner and a magistrate. Sometimes in a rape case, the exhibits may have been mishandled, therefore, not conclusively establishing as the law requires the offence of rape. Although rape may have been committed, the magistrate then has no option but to go by the lesser charge of indecent assault. When we leave it open up to five years, it means that a magistrate assessing the situation then can give such sentence as the ... view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, so that the magistrate is also in a position to impose a lesser fine. If I were a magistrate and I had an hon. Member as an accused and I know their salaries, and I had a cleaner or a messenger whose salary is Kshs5,000, I would not award the same fine for the same offence because their financial circumstances are different. We should not enable the rich to buy justice. view