Wakoli Bifwoli

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• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: The fact of the matter is that the judgment was given on the date that it was given. On the same day, my officers filed a notice of appeal and applied for a certified copy of the ruling to enable an appeal to be filed. As I have already admitted, it has taken an inordinately long time for this record to be made available. I can confirm that the Registrar of the High Court is now carrying out an investigation into why there has been this inordinate delay in the preparation of the record of appeal. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Permanent Secretary, the Office of the Vice-President and Ministry of Home Affairs has undertaken to take care of these payments in the next financial year. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member and I have advised all the Ministries to ensure that judgment entered against them should be paid promptly. At the end of the day, the Government pays more than was ordered in the judgment because view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said that we shall be considerably helped if the Members of Parliament insisted the procedure laid down under the Government Proceedings Act was followed. Where a certificate has been obtained against the Government, the procedure is that an application is filed for a mandamus to direct the Accounting Officer to pay on the pain of being committed to civil jail. If these applications were filed to commit the Accounting Officers to civil jail if they do not honour court decrees, I am quite sure more efforts will be made and there will be fewer Questions in ... view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, definitely, a circular has already been sent to all Accounting Officers by the Head of Public Service. It is a long circular dealing with the issue of how to deal with summons which emanate from Ministries. One of the problems was summons are served and the first time the Attorney-General comes to hear of them, is after judgment has been more or less entered. This is because Ministries have not taken those summons seriously. The second problem is that even where it is served and forwarded to the Attorney-General, the Accounting Officers normally think that because they ... view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, even where summons have been taken to the Accounting Officers, the Ministries have failed to give proper brief to the Attorney- General for various reasons. Even where a brief has been given and the defence has been filed, when the case comes up for hearing in court, the Ministries have failed to make witnesses available maybe, because of various difficulties, for example, some officers have been transferred, resigned and so on. When we come to executing the decree, it will be extremely useful if after obtaining the certificate against the Government, which is provided for under the ... view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think I did state that in the interest of justice, the decree holder had waited for such a long time to get the fruits of his labour in court, through really no fault of his. I stated that the appeal will not be proceeded with and I will now focus on the payment. In fact, I have already received a positive response from the Ministry of Home Affairs, but we shall try to see how that response can be expedited. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of witnesses being protected, I want to inform this House that I published a Bill, which I believe has now matured. It should really be on the Order Paper as a matter of priority. When it comes here, I hope that hon. Members will be able to enact it quickly so that we can have an effective structure in place to protect witnesses. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: As to what happened to the ICPCR, headed by Mr. Wainaina, this is the time I am hearing it. But I can take this opportunity, in this Parliament, to direct the Commissioner of Police, under the powers conferred upon me under Section 26(4), to carry out investigations comprehensively and immediately--- view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, I am using the powers conferred upon me under Section 26(4) to order immediate investigations which will be carried out comprehensively and expeditiously. I am, in fact, glad that the Minister who is responsible for the police is here and that my instructions will be carried out. view