Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think on the matter of penalties, we want to look at best practices. In Singapore, China and Japan where their corruption is very low the penalty for corruption is death penalty. In fact, in Singapore and Japan if you commit The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: a procurement offence you do not even wait for the police. You actually commit suicide. You jump from the roof of the building in which you committed corruption because the Government is going to come after you. We need penalties that are tight. We want to look at the option of removing a fine. If you look at Clause 177 where the fine for procurement offences is only Kshs4 million, what we are saying is that it is better for you to commit a procurement offence in, for example, a contract of Kshs100 million and pay the fine. If we ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: If we use this law well, it will help our country; it will help us to develop. As we support this Bill, we do so with amendments and with the vision that we have to deal with corruption, which has attached itself to the procurement system. Through this procurement law, the National Assembly needs to end the dance with corruption. Dancing with corruption is dangerous; it is injurious to our country. It just means that all of us remain backward; we remain a third world country when we can become a medium income country in the shortest time possible. I ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay on the Table of the House a Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on the Persons Deprived of Liberty Bill, 2014. view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I just want to support the amendments and to tell the House that this Bill was well drafted. So, a lot of the amendments are merely to put the Bill into shape, correct typographical errors and make sure that the Bill accords with the deprivation of liberty as we want to see it. So, I support the amendment. view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I just want to make the point that in the new system of rehabilitating prisoners, you want to rehabilitate prisoners who are in places of detention. In any rehabilitation, once the person has been deprived of liberty, there would be no reason to continue subjecting them to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The loss of liberty is what they pay for, for the crimes that they have committed. So, the fine that is proposed of Kshs.500,000, for the warders and police officers who continue to treat people in cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment is ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. To support the amendments proposed by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, the presumption of innocence continues to be a running theme in our Constitution. Even at the time of being held by the police for suspicion of committing a crime, you remain innocent until you are proved guilty in a court of law. In that presumption of innocence, it is important that you have a chance to make a telephone call to your relatives or lawyer to come and be part of the case. Remember we are talking ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As the women of this country, we have really suffered by being subjected to searches by male police officers. Many times it ceases being a search and becomes something else. The law now states that a male police officer will only search male suspects while a female police officer will search female offenders. This is extremely important in protecting the right to dignity for both men and women. As a country, we have to invest in equipment. This old age mechanisms of searching people using bare hands should cease. Bare hands can hardly detect ... view