Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: will one day become. However, because of us vacating our traditional practices and values, we find that someone takes the father who has died to court to prove that he was the father, so that they can become part of that estate. These are things that are un- African. Even though we are in a global village, it is my view that we must seek alternative options to ensure that we deal with these issues. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are issues of paternity in very extended families. I will give you an example; in my county of Homa Bay, ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: Indeed, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a significant matter which is normally handled by the Council of Elders. We have told our Council of Elders that they need to focus less on politics, and more on such issues that put young boys and girls at a great disadvantage. I remember many years ago, in the 1950’s, through the leadership of one great community leader called Paulo Mboya, the elders sat down and split that clan into two. This was to ensure that not every other relationship would then be looked at as incest. You can imagine people in four ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: make them stand trial in the contemporary courts in Uganda, send all of them to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or use a traditional approach. Eventually, the Acholi, the community which was mostly affected opted to go for a traditional dispute resolution system called mato oput . This helped because there was nothing to do to these children. They were born in normal lives, abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) soldiers and converted into soldiers and became killing machines. Were they to be taken to court and charged with treason? If so, they would have filled correctional facilities with ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: I hope that as we go along to do public participation, the CoG and the Executive will come up with additional suggestions on how to enrich this Bill to take care of those matters. It is interesting that when we were in a select Committee looking at reforms to prisons and Borstals institutions, someone who is committed to jail rising from a civil debt is fed by the person who complains. If you go to Shimo la Tewa, you will find 20 people lounging and fed by the person they conned in the first place. I believe that issues like ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is directly and not through the taxes. If a person is committed to jail on account of a civil debt, it is the complainant who will feed him or her. It is untidy. You will find that space in our correctional facilities is taken up by such characters. The sad bit is that the person is sent to jail, you feed him and when he comes out, the man will---- view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the Bill. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion on the Report of the Open Governance Partnership Summit, that has been laid on the table of this House. The Open Governance Partnership Summit is an initiative that ought to be embraced by many county governments. We have seen certain measures and efforts that have been taken up by a few county governments in this country to make their operations transparent and accessible to the public. When we went to Makueni County, we found that the county government had developed a portal, where one could track the projects that the ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: Our experience in the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC), where we are required to open up the ‘servers’ or the books of counties, is that we sometimes find that the county governments do not want to be open and transparent with the auditors. They do not want to be open with the auditors who are mandated by the Constitution to confirm that public resources have been applied in a prudent manner. This country has never seen the prosecution of a person who has violated Section 62 of the Public Audit Act. The Public Audit Act states that any ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: government entities can adopt so as to convert the data that they have into a form that can then be published to the public in the form of information. The national Government once invited developers in this country to build Application Program Interfaces (API) that would plug into the Government data stores and generate all sorts of data simulations. One of the most valuable sources of data at that point – and I do recall I was in the industry then – was what we call the Integrated Personnel Registry System (IPRS). The IPRS is managed at the Ministry of ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: When you send an MPESA message and then it returns the name of the person, sometimes it returns names that you would never know. For example you are sending an MPESA to someone who, for a long time you have believed is called Sue Kihika, then the MPESA returns a name like Susan Wanjiku Gathoni Kihika. That is when you get to know the real names of people. That translation from an ID number to the real name that sits in the registration database was facilitated through the IPRS. A lot of corporates like Safaricom, banks and insurance companies are ... view