Moses Masika Wetangula

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• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: want somebody to help them. I remember that in our early days, my late grandfather was a village elder and people would walk to his home in the morning and raise their concerns. For example, they would tell him, “So and so’s cows broke the fence and ravaged my crops;” or “So and so’s bull has crossed the fence and harassed my cows;” and so on, and so forth. They would then solve these disputes very easily and get things moving. Therefore, Sen. Kasanga should look at Part 4, and simplify it as much as she possibly can. Some of ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: In trying to speed the wheels of justice, these innovative mechanisms are critical and important. This is because we know that justice, in the conventional system that we know, is very expensive. For you to go to court, you must have some properly drafted documents called plea deals; you must file them, and sometimes you need a lawyer to read the law, interpret it for you, and then go and argue your case. It costs money. If you lose unfairly, and you want to go to the next level of appeal, it costs money. By the time you reach the ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: These alternatives are very important. We must, upon passage of this Bill, encourage public awareness. There are people who may not know that there is such a law that can help them; or those who may not know that they can sit together, if you have disagreed, and say, “We agree to Sen. Halake to be our dispute resolution person; we submit all our facts and we abide by what she will tell us.” That way, people can get to know that it is not just the courts that can arbitrate. Equally important, is the simplification of the process, so ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: Any parent of a young girl who has been made pregnant by an adult and acquiesces to this kind of process is also guilty of a criminal offence of being an accessory to a crime after the fact. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: I am saying it outlaws. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: Yes, it does. It says that those things cannot go to alternative dispute resolution. I am praising the drafter of the Bill for including this because if you just say we embrace alternative dispute resolution, then we will be opening the country to chaos. She has done very well. You cannot subject criminal activities to alternative dispute resolutions. They must be dealt with within the criminal justice system which we also encourage to dispense justice faster. Equally important as I come to an end because I see my time is running out, I have seen that Sen. Kasanga has provided ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: citizens go through to be dispossessed because the wheels of justice turn too slowly. To find a better way of dealing with this matter is a very big relief. In fact, like I said earlier, we have the Office of the Ombudsman and in the Constitution, we provide for the office of the public defender. These are some of the things that office should be doing. The Office of the Ombudsman is supposed to be a simplified version of the office of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General, to help people in matters of dispute and to ensure matters of violation of ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: As I finish, if you could give me one or two minutes. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: The highest levels of injustice in this country are in areas of land ownership. People are dispossessed of their land every day. People have bought land and eventually somebody comes and becomes so legalistic, everybody knows. We should start having a situation where like in marriage, if any of your neighbours can stand up and say: “We know for sure that Sen. Halake is married to Mr. Halake or whoever and have been living with us”, nobody asks for a marriage certificate. It is called common law presumption of marriage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have the Registered Land Act ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in Senate: know of what the police were doing. I called Cabinet Secretary Karoney and she told me: “I visited that land and gave options on how to resolve the issue because I was fully aware that there is a serious problem.” You cannot evict families of close 6,000 people. Right now, they are living by the roadside. I understand that the grandchildren of the person who had sold them land are not taking the land to live on; they are trying to sell the land to other people at better value. We cannot live like that; it is immoral to say ... view