Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: In supporting this Bill, I would like to recall the history of this country as far as independence of the police is concerned. When we came out, during Independence, with the Lancaster Constitution, among the very many early amendments were amendments that had to do with the police. I think we have gone the same way. However, that is not, in any way, to say that Parliament will not remain watchful on what the police will be doing even as we support this Bill. We will support the Chairman of the Committee on Administration and National Security, who still has ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I just want to urge our police officers to be responsible and continue guarding the country even as we support them in law. I also urge the Committee to remain engaged in terms of other amendments that may be required. view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to support the amendments and to support also the process. The insurance industry continues to be very important in our country. I support. view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am also happy to stand in support of the nominees to the Parliamentary Service Commission. I support them at this time when we are about to vote in the Supplementary Budget, that is, Kshs5 billion. We are now hoping that with the fully constituted Parliamentary Service Commission, funding services will be availed. Those of us who are serving as Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons are still waiting for offices. More importantly, I also hope that the Commission will take time to hire good lawyers for the litigation that has been driven against the House. I think ... view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also thank very much the Eleventh Parliament for having discussed the Marriage Bill. I am, indeed, very happy that most of the Members who have spoken on the Floor of this House has supported the Bill. Most of the comments are towards improving the Bill. Most of the hon. Members have appreciated the cultural aspects that have been captured in this Bill. view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: The history of the Marriage Bill in this country is not a very interesting one. In 1968, the first Committee on the marriage laws was set up by the First President of the Republic of Kenya, hon. Jomo Kenyatta. It is really instructive that many years after that initiative, we are about to make hon. Uhuru Kenyatta the president that will assent to this law in the way that hon. Members have discussed this Bill. In 1971, the first Marriage Bill was brought to this House but it was defeated because of the fear of affiliation then. Members of Parliament ... view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: together, we dance and enjoy ourselves. We want to keep that in our laws. We want to have those marriages recognised, and this Bill provides for them. The issue of codification of our marriage laws has been mentioned by many hon. Members. Again, we have had to read the Muslim marriage as provided for in the Mohamedan Act; the Christian marriage as provided for in the Christian Marriages Act. We have also had to read about seven pieces of legislation on matters of marriage. That will no longer be the case. We now have one particular law, in which all ... view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: life time, he is not allowed to have other wives. He lives a monogamous life. In his death, when he is not even there to answer questions and clarify which one was a girl friend, which one was a come-we-stay relationship and which one was a wife; that is the point at which the law chooses to recognise all the other women. We are not going to have that situation anymore. A man who wants to be polygamous will be polygamous in his life time. He will choose a method of marriage that allows him to be polygamous. For those ... view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to talk about my county; Nyeri County. As I wind up, in Nyeri County we have heard a lot of questions about women battering men and women who perpetrate gender-based violence. As I have said before, I want to say again that that is not the truth. In fact, in my county we have many happy marriages. My parents and many others live together happily. All the colleagues that we know continue to be in real happy marriages. But again, the question of gender-based violence starts being addressed by having a good marriage law. ... view