Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: It says: “New procedures for issuance of ID cards for North Eastern Province.” I have seen this list of conditions that came out of the Inter-Ministerial Consultative Committee. I have looked at them with my officers and we have said that some of these conditions infringe on the rights of nationality and human rights and they will not be followed. The only ones that will be followed are the six that I have talked about here because they apply to everybody. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I undertake to ask my PS to issue a circular to the registration officers in North Eastern Province to apply rules that apply to everybody from border districts and not to apply any more new rules to North Eastern Province than applies to everybody else because we cannot be seen to be discriminating against applicants in any part of this country. The rules must be uniform. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, certain rules may by their own very nature look like they are discriminative. When you say that the border areas will have certain different rules from those that are not border areas and certain cities will have different rules or additional rules, they are discriminative by nature. But the discrimination is deliberate. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my answer, I referred to border areas and certain cities like Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa. These are not all the cities in the country. We only chose a few where we have this serious problem. Even in Kibera, we have a serious problem. However, the committees there are working and people are happy. What is important is the committees to work. The choosing of those elders should be fair. The results should not be discriminative, so that a Kenyan is not denied an identity card. At the same time, a non-Kenyan is not given an identity ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I could enlarge that problem, there is a serious problem in northern Kenya, especially the area around the refugee settlement in Dadaab. Because refugees get some ration of food, water, medication, free education, bursaries and many other little things, some Kenyans are tempted to benefit from these facilities. They then voluntarily lie to our registration officials that they are Somalis, yet they are not. Then they are registered as refugees. We take the thumbprints and give them alien cards. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you are in Nairobi and you apply normally, it takes 20 days. If you are in up country, normally without any problem, it takes 30 days. Those are our guidelines and we try to meet that target. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with my sister that this is a problem for all of us. We want every Kenyan to be registered. In fact, that is my mandate, whether it is at birth or for the national identity card at the age of 18 years. I want all the Members to help me ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to give me some additional funds just to fuel and repair some vehicles, so that I can go to every school. As we register for voting, we should also register our people along the ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity to thank the people of Mbita for bringing me back to this Tenth Parliament, so that I can be a participant in the discussion and enactment of a new Constitution which will usher in a new constitutional dispensation for this country. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one time I came to this Parliament as a visitor. I came to the Gallery on the day the Section 2A was introduced into our Constitution. I was then a young lecturer at the Kenya Polytechnic. I was disturbed that Parliament was likely to amend the Constitution to say that Kenya will from henceforth be a de jure one party state. While in the Gallery, the Mover of the Motion, the then first Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya, who had been defending the Constitution after the first President died and said that we cannot ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am glad that you are today presiding over this debate, because you are personally intrinsically connected to it. This is because we have suffered that impunity and I know that you have suffered more than some of us. But it is a beautiful morning that you are presiding over the debate of changing the current Constitution and ushering in a new constitutional dispensation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I thank the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee and his very able deputy for yesterday’s speeches and, of course, the speeches they made at ... view