Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when this Commission was proposed sometimes back to be part of our Constitution and have powers to prosecute, I remember I was one of the people who refused and opposed. This is because I said that the powers of prosecution must be given to only one office, which at the time was that of the Attorney General. I said that if we were unsatisfied or thought that the Attorney General did not know or want to do his job, then we could as well have relieved him of his duties and appointed somebody else. I thought that ... view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will not respond. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we did not set up the Anti-Corruption Authority to chase traffic officers who have received Kshs50 on the streets, because there are many other institutions that can do that. We did not put so much money--- view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for protecting me. I am entitled to my opinion, sister. Allow me to give my opinion with a lot of passion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Anti-Corruption Authority must itself have another body to check corruption. This is because the Anti-Corruption Authority cannot be a law unto itself. There are people who use the Anti-Corruption Authority - a big name, constitutional name and a good office – for purposes of harassment and bribe-taking. I hope that this gentleman and ladies that we are passing this evening will not use this good office, constitutional office and illustrious ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Just briefly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to emphasize the fact that in the heart of this Constitution is devolution. In the heart of devolution is the money to run that devolved Government. These two Bills deal exactly with that. One provides for the devolution and another provides for how we will apply finances to manage devolved units. If for some reason, and the reason here is if we stall where we are now and we do not extend time, the consequences will be that the Constitution, in respect to devolution will not be implemented and we will ... view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just want to understand your ruling, because you have said that we cannot impute improper motive in the person of another hon. Member, which is correct. Is discussing a matter or stating a fact, like hon. Kiema tabled some letters here and some newspaper cuttings imputing improper motive? Could we then say that hon. Kiema was imputing improper motive on the person he was alleging wrote those letters? Really, if you suggest that a fact took place and you cannot substantiate it, you are, of course, challenged to substantiate it. ... view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just want to enquire from my good neighbour why he is so worried about creating many billionaires. That is what we want to target in Vision 2030. We want very many billionaires including him. Why is he so shy? view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: (a) I am aware that some persons have registered as refuges in the camps and have also sought registration for Kenya national identity cards at the same time. They should be arraigned in court and charged. However, we have a humanitarian window and we have referred the applicants, who say they are Kenyans, to their respective district security committees for vetting and clearance before they present themselves for national identity card registration and subsequent deregistration from the refugee data base. I have view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me give a short background of what happened. The refugee camps are for refugees from neighbouring countries. Some are from Somalia, Sudan, Congo and many other countries. So, when you get into a refugee camp we register you from your country of origin and indicate that you are from Somalia or Sudan. Of course, we have now learnt that there are some Kenyans who, because of adversities like drought, hunger and availability of relief food within the refugee camps, cheat that they are refugees; they cheat about their country of origin. Some say they are Somalis ... view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: So, what have we done? We have said that instead of arresting all these people and charging them, this is a futile exercise. We have said we will take them back to their villages – to their chiefs who know them and to the security people at the grassroots who know them to clear them and then they can apply as Kenyans. I have given hon. Affey two lists. One of the list which is Appendix I, is of those who are refuges, or whom we have found in the refugee data base; they have said they are Kenyans but ... view