Simon Lesirma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 281 to 290 of 1354.

• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: (a) The Government, through the Office of the President, has not been paying land rates to the Nairobi City Council for private property LR.No.7879/4--- view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, obviously, the information being tabled is not in my possession and I would request for more time to check the authenticity of the letter and come back with a good answer. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: I request to be given time up to Tuesday. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think the figures are obviously summarized. All these relate to husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, et cetera . So, I do not have a breakdown of the relationships provided for in these statistics. It is something to do with violence, not necessarily to do with sexual violence. I did also mention that the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development has responsibility in terms of social work for this kind of thing. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have just mentioned the role of the police in this aspect. The Government has stationed counselors and social workers in various districts to do counseling of Kenyans who face this kind of violence. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, every police station should be having a Gender Desk to deal with these issues, so that the kind of discrimination that is being alluded to by the hon. Member does not arise. However, this is a very wide area for the Government to be asked to supervise human relationships. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have just tabled statistics to show that there have been some prosecutions. Of course, the figures are not as high as one would expect. The prosecutions that I have tabled show a number of cases are withdrawn or are never brought forward. With regard to the question of the Family Protection Bill, I have not been able to establish from the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, at what stage that Bill is. This is something that I was not able, at the time of coming to this House, to know the stage at ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, these institutions exist within the reporting institutions which are the police service, medical institutions such as women hospitals and Government hospitals, including Mathare Mental Hospital and also the Social Services Department. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can only say that the Government can facilitate various organizations, including the church, to train Kenyans to be more tolerant. Indications are that after 2007, Kenyans are becoming less tolerant to one another. Also, we want Kenyans to live peacefully and respect the laws of the country. We want the Ministry of Education, for example, to include in the syllabus, the question of domestic violence, and even violence against children. I had the opportunity to visit Sweden to look at their early childhood education programmes 15 years ago; two-year olds in school are given police hotlines, ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe that matter was reported. I believe that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is handling it and the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs is offering me information, which I am willing to take. view