Peter Ochieng Odoyo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Stem cell research effectively means that we can October 3, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4313 replicate our most learned Speaker through this type of research. We can in the future be able to replicate the one and only ole Kaparo by taking a cell from him and replicating him in the near future. view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is in so far as we are able to get the best in society and try to replicate them. view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am saying the hon. Kaparo is one of the best in society. view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Part II (6) of the Bill has a 16 member Board. Most of them are Government officials. We have almost 11 Government officials and five so-called private members appointed by the Minister. I believe there should be room for other independent bodies to participate, especially in private research. There are private research bodies, including international bodies operating in Kenya, that could be able to assist in such a Board. I have in mind, for example, the universities like University of Nairobi (UON), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Kenyatta University who undertake a ... view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, coming to Part III which deals with Applications for Approval and Risk Management, once again, we have a long bureaucratic process. While it is correct because of the nature of the application being a highly biological, scientific and environmentally risky element, there should be a two-way process. One to give the Board preliminary assessment over a period of time. Secondly, those who pass at preliminary stage then should be approved immediately. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I was not able to go through many other clauses, I am limiting myself to Part IX, which ... view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the conspiracy of the Western World, where a man marries another man, and a woman marries another woman, is that, in future, they will not have children biologically but will use genetically modified stem cells, through research, to create children for themselves as a way of enhancing this immoral behaviour in our society. Therefore, I appeal to the Minister to consider having a moral guardian in this particular Board. As we talk about society, there is no element in this Bill, containing any moral concept. It may be biologically right and environmentally correct, but it ... view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was coming to that. Stem cell research can be used positively. Therefore, I am saying that this Bill does not have enough provisions to enable the proposed Board to access areas, where experiments are being done. The Bill does not give the proposed board enough powers to assess and ensure that, indeed, what a person says he is going to research on is, indeed, what they research on, for example. One may claim that he is doing research to ensure that he fights sickle cell anaemia, but in his laboratory, he could be recreating ... view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me substitute the name "Peter Odoyo" for the name "Gor Sungu". One could be recreating the hon. Peter Odoyo, MP for Nyakach, as he lies that he is doing research into diseases. I am, therefore, appealing to the Minister that as we put this Bill together, its safeguards must go a step further. International researchers come to this country and say that they are doing research at the museums into AIDS using baboons. They go to places like Rarieda and do research among the population. Vaccine tests are also carried out. This is an ... view
• 3 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for enlightening me on Clause 35(1)(a). Indeed, I concur with what you have said. But l repeat that many of our lawyers, whether they are High Court Judges, are arts-based. They are experts in history, economics, geography, religion, et cetera, but as preliminary subjects. Few of them have expertise in the delicate world of physiological sciences, biology, chemistry, physics, et cetera . Therefore, I question whether putting such a person to chair such a Board would be the best thing. That is because he or she will be charged with the responsibility of ... view
• 20 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. view