Susan Wakarura Kihika

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Apr 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Statement sought by the Senate Leader of Minority. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 14 Apr 2020 in Senate: I am also one of the people who watched the recording that trended a few days ago in social media and it was gut wrenching. I cannot imagine what that family must be going through. It was so inhumane. Within our African cultures, we value and give dignity and respect to the dead. It was completely wrong for what we saw going round, especially also doing it at 2.00 a.m. I just did not understand why that would even be the case or even with the proper protocols, the family was treated the way that it was. With the proper ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, Tuesday, 10th March, 2020 - Report of the Third Ordinary Session of the 5th Parliament of the Pan-African Parliament held from 7th to 18th October, 2019 in Midrand, South Africa. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to give notice of the following Motion - THAT, the Senate notes the Report of the Third Ordinary Session of the 5th Parliament of the Pan-African Parliament held from 7th to 18th October, 2019 in Midrand, South Africa. I thank you. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to make a few comments on this report that has been tabled by the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. I would like to congratulate our Chairperson who has done a lot of work to ensure that this report was done with speed given the sensitive nature of the statement that was sought by the Senator for Nairobi County, Sen. Sakaja. I sat in the Committee meetings as different stakeholders made their presentations. We heard from the human rights and civil society organizations as well as IPOA. It was quite shocking to hear ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: justify extra-judicial killings. The killings cannot be justified in any way, shape or form just because the welfare of police officers is not being handled. It is despicable. Under no circumstances can we ever justify taking away human life without fair trial. The extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances offends the Constitution and administration of law and justice. I cannot under any circumstance understand how it is possible to make a justification for the extra-judicial killings. I invite the Senators who have made those comments to attend one of the hearings and hear the stakeholders such as the civil society and ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: I was also surprised to learn that there seems to be a problem because the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) lacks jurisdiction in oversighting some bodies. For example, IPOA does not have an over sighting mechanism over the Kenya Forest Services (KFS), the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the National Police Service (NPS). There is a lot of abuse of power in some of them like the Kenya Coast Guard Services (KCGS). There seems to be a gap, but as Parliament, I believe we shall be called upon to look into this very carefully, so that we help stop these ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: The IPOA also complained about the overlap of mandate between them and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). One of the bigger issues that I caught was that when IPOA is investigating the officers who have been accused, for example, of extrajudicial killings or those sorts of crimes, they do not have an independent forensics laboratory. They have to use laboratories that are run by officers at the DCI. There seems to be conflict there because they can sometimes sit on this evidence, which makes IPOA not to move forward and lead to prosecutions. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I believe that is probably one of the things that as a Committee we will look into and come back to the House wanting to figure out how we can make sure that IPOA is completely independent as far as their investigations and handling of evidence is concerned. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: We also heard a lot about how sometimes the police just refuse to comply with the service standards. For example, they fail to identify themselves when people are murdered and are killed this way. Therefore, nobody will know it was the police officers who were involved. By the time the trail leads to them, evidence is sat on and not handed over. Clearly, there are some problems. view