Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1971 to 1980 of 3315.

• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: (a) by deleting subclause (1) and replacing with a new subclause (1) as follows— view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: “(1) Any person who reasonably suspects that an offence of domestic violence is being or has been committed may give such information to the police officers or any other person in authority”; view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: (b) in subclause (2) by deleting the words “by virtue of such reporting attacks, intimidates or does any harmful act to the person providing information” appearing immediately after the words “person who” and substituting therefor the words “attacks, intimidates or harms a person who reports domestic violence”; view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: We retain sub-clauses 3 and 4. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. That is a better way. I therefore withdraw the amendments to sub-clause 3 and 4 but retain amendment to the deletion in sub-clause 7. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I beg to move:- view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. That has been well put by you and hon. Kang’ata. I would like to persuade my very good colleague, who was formerly a Member of this Committee. In fact, he was a very good Member before he left. I do not know for what reasons. On a more concrete note, we are just merely replacing the word “shall” with “may”. The word “shall” makes it mandatory even when the person does not wish to apply. If you look at Clause 11(2), read together with the amendment without anticipating, you will see that we have ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 11 of the Bill be amended in sub-clause (2)— (a) by inserting the words “a parent, guardian, probation officer, police officer, person acting on behalf of a non-governmental organization concerned with the welfare of victims of domestic violence or, with leave of court, any other person” immediately after the word “through”; (b) by deleting paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) (h), (i) and (j); The import of this amendment is that we are cleaning the Bill as drafted. If you look at the way it was drafted, it ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: parties in the conflict. There are two persons who are complaining in the circumstances. So, it is left with the other person who is unhappy to report that matter on behalf of the child. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, as you said, we completely retained the substance. Including the names of all these persons is, again, being restrictive. We have allowed any persons, subject to the leave of the courts. Whoever feels that they need to apply to protect a child can seek leave of the court to do so. We have included parent, guardian, probation officer, police officer, person acting on behalf of an NGO concerned with the welfare of victims of domestic violence. As hon. Members can see, we have already taken care of most of the ones that I have mentioned. In ... view