Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2971 to 2980 of 2994.

• 26 May 2015 in Senate: Article 26 of the Constitution has really addressed the issue of abortion. Probably, all we needed to do was to define who a health care professional is and I believe that has also been defined in other statutes. All that we needed to have done was to strengthen penalties for people who violate that article. If we say that life begins at conception and someone undertakes abortion, that someone has killed something that is alive. Therefore, when it comes to the issue of penalties which other speakers have also touched on, Clause 21 of the Bill is too docile. Talking ... view
• 20 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairperson, Sir, I also support the proposal to delete Clause 39(3). I also sympathise with some of the concerns raised by Sen. Haji but probably those concerns could be misplaced. I still believe that if an auditor has be sent by the Auditor-General to go and audit those security related sectors, there would still be certain procedures that they have to go through; procedures for access to premises and so on. There would still be procedures that would not need to come here. When you put 39(3) in this Act, it means that the person being audited will ... view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the matter raised by my colleague, this morning I put it to the journalist who was responsible for this article to provide me with a background that led to this particular news item. The reporter responded that all they got from Infotrak was one question that was put out to potential respondents. That question was: “On a scale of 1 to 10 how do you rate your Senator?” This is more of a popularity assessment than a performance assessment. When you wake up in the morning and see headlines of an expose of who the ... view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will get off that tangent because it can lead me to trouble but-- view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I need to get clarity on the part--- view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, not to begrudge the point, I was talking of a matter that is in the public domain--- view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will withdraw from the perception created. The point I am making is-- view
• 19 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, out of respect to the Chair, I withdraw. If you allow me to make the final submission on this particular matter, those of us who have studied a little bit of public relations and media understand the agenda setting role of the media. The point I am trying to make is that the media needs to be careful when trying to set an agenda, so that they do not sweep under the carpet issues that have been raised to the fore of national discourse by using a popularity assessment similar to the one that was released ... view
• 14 May 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Burundi is obviously between a rock and a hard place, the rock being an incumbent who is hell-bent on retaining power at all costs and the hard place being the military that is taking over. Unfortunately, the leaders and the summit that is supposed to mediate on this matter- we have some leaders who are famous for scrapping term limits in their own jurisdictions, but to the most specific question and the from Statement read by the Chairperson which I appreciate---. He has talked about an attempted coup yet yesterday President Nkurunziza talked about an imaginary ... view