Samuel Kamunye Gichigi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: A society’s civilization is known by how it takes care of its vulnerable people. I think the history of this country is awash with situations where victims, including mass victims of crime, end up suffering more. Looking at all tribal clashes that we have had in the past, the spate of crimes that have taken place in this country, the question you ask yourself is what happens to particular victims. We have even seen that the Government will occasionally assist, as it did at Westgate, families to bury their dead, but that is the end of the matter. The reason ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I think the provisions that require people, who normally come into contact with victims should be retrained. Literally all the police should be retrained to know how to handle victims. Many police officers see victims as witnesses and not as victims. They will just tell you to write a statement: “Take that piece of paper and write your name and what happened.” That is it and there is no assistance that will come to that particular person. So, we need to retrain the police, the national administration officers like the chiefs and teachers to know how to handle victims. It ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I have looked at the provisions in Clause 12 about the board. In the current situation where we are all complaining about use of public funds, a board of 12 people may not appear to be many but we probably need to relook at this and reduce the number to a more reasonable figure. The same Clause 12 has a provision that a third of the 12 needs to of either gender. We could run into problems with that because the same The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: provisions have statutory representation of different bodies. If those people are of either gender, there could be problems and so we need to relook at the provision on either gender. These will not be representatives, or board members, who will appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. They will represent different organizations. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Clause 14 deals with compensation of the victims, a very good one, indeed; I am happy that the Mover of this Bill is here. We should try to bridge the gap that exists where a person faced injured by a criminal has to go to a civil court to get compensation, even if a crime has been committed against that person. I think we need to even look at the civil and criminal procedures to ensure that a magistrate gets jurisdiction to deal with both the criminal aspect as well as the civil aspect. The magistrate should not only give ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I think it is important that we look at what is going to happen at the end of the case. We need to think of provisions that will secure the property of the accused in these cases, knowing that he might be compelled to compensate the victim at the end of the trial. We could secure his property at the commencement of the trial. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I end, I will say this, as a country, let us remember the victims of all the crimes that have been committed in parts of eastern, north eastern, currently at the ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was winding up by saying that it is important that this country stops letting down the victims. If this Government cannot provide security to its citizenry then let it come up with a compensation fund in the Budget for victims of crime so that the families of the people who are murdered or massacred in this country get some compensation. This will ensure that we are not left with widows, widowers and orphans who cannot be compensated. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I support this Bill but I will propose amendments to strengthen it so that we truly protect the victims of crime in this country. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support this particular Motion and thank the Committee for proper scrutiny of these regulations. Any person who has experience with the convening of meetings in the constituencies - unlike former board meetings--- When you give notice to members of the public, you might find that you do not have quorum or proper numbers in the meetings. The proposal that we reduce the notice period to seven days for convening of these meetings makes sense. It is actually reasonable, so that the issue is live from the issuance of notice to the date of ... view