Paul Otiende Amollo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have read carefully this Report. I have carefully looked at the Constitution and the NCIC Act. I will also disclose that I was a member of the NCIC as a Commissioner for five years prior to 2016 by virtue of being the Chair of the Commission on Administrative Justice. While I have no fundamental issue with the Report and the persons nominated, there are certain issues of principle that raise grave concern to me and which make me reluctant to support this Report. view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: First, if you look at Section 17 of the NCIC Act, the President is supposed to nominate a chair and eight commissioners. In this case, we have a chair and seven commissioners. The Report does not render an explanation why we are one short of the number required by the Act. The reasons why it is a chair and eight commissioners is because it is never a good principle to have an even number in a commission. There is likely to be a stalemate. Unless the Report tells us why we are one number short, I am unlikely and unable ... view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Secondly, I doubt if the Committee considered the full text of the Act in terms of the commissioners. Section 17 of the Act gives the President the power to appoint nine commissioners upon approval by this House. However, there are already three standing commissioners, namely, the Chair of the Commission on Administrative Justice, the Chair of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the Chair of the National Gender and Equality Commission. They are already commissioners as we speak. So, it behooves the Committee not just to look at those who applied, but they ought to look at who ... view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: We find ourselves in a situation where, and without in any way berating my friends already, the Chairman of the Kenyan National Human Rights Commission, Madam Kagwira Mbogori is my very good friend, we have members from one particular ethnicity. The The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Chairperson of the Commission on Administrative Justice, Hon. Florence Kajuju, who took over from me is also from that very community. The proposed chairperson now, the very able Rev. (Dr.) Kobia is also from that community. How does a Commission that is supposed to ensure regional and ethnic balance end up with three chairs of different commissions in the same commission? view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I t should be noted and this has not always happened in this House. This is my third point that Article 250 requires that as we are looking at the distribution of commissions and independent offices, they should be taken as a whole and not individually to reflect the regional and ethnic balance of this country. Committees that propose names must, therefore, demonstrate not just how that particular commission satisfies that principle, but how other existing commissions and numbers taken as a whole satisfies that. view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I am afraid this Committee has not done that and previous committees also have not done that, but that is very important. Every other time the concentration of our discussions is limited to not more than 10 ethnicities in this country because we only look at the individual commission. We do not look at the other commissions that we approve and see the distribution. view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the fourth issue is the question of age. Every Kenyan has right to hold any position if they are qualified. However, this must be tampered with necessity and reality sometimes. I have calculated the age of seven of the eight proposed nominees, but in respect to Mr. Danfas Makori on Page 34, the Report does not capture his ethnicity or age. For all the others, it is captured. The seven nominees have a cumulative age of 392 years. I am sure we are all entitled to the opportunity, but 392 years… There is, at least, one ... view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: When appointments come for cabinet secretaries and permanent secretaries some of whom we approve here, and then they do not comply with that requirement, the Commission’s hands are tied. When one says things that strictly do not amount to hate speech and if you look at the definition of hate speech, the Commission’s hands are tied. So, even as we appoint people to this Commission, we will need to make a principled decision. Do we really want a Commission or do we just want the Executive to deal with the issues of cohesion? When we allocate more money to the ... view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: think the signal is that we are tending towards not wanting the Commission and we should confront that issue. view