Wakoli Bifwoli

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• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (a) The number of criminal cases since the commencement of the Sexual Offences Act on 26th July, 2006 to June, 2009 are 5,537. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (b) The number of challenges are many. They include:- a. Reluctance of victims to report and/or destruction of evidence by victims due to ignorance b. Poor investigations of sexual offences due to lack of capacity and sufficient tools c. Unavailability of doctors to give evidence. Medical evidence is crucial in successful prosecution of sexual offences. d. Lack of one-stop centres to deal with sexual offences e. Stigma associated with sexual offences f. Lack of DNA data bank view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: The challenges are being addressed in many ways including the following: view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (i) Development of the Sexual Offences Training Manual for investigators and prosecutors view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (ii) Training of police investigators, prosecutors and judicial officers. Four such training workshops have been held in Nairobi and others have been held in Machakos, Mombasa, Nyeri, Nakuru and Kakamega involving about 70 police prosecutors; 80 police investigators; 73 state counsel and 38 magistrates. The exercise is ongoing. I believe one is planned for Kisumu. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (iii) The multisectoral task force on the operationalisation of the Sexual Offences Act was constituted by the Attorney-General and is currently preparing the policy framework for the effective implementation of the Act. This task force is being chaired by hon. Justice (Rtd) Effie Owuor who was the first lady magistrate and the first lady Judge at the High Court in this country. She was also the first lady Judge of the Court of Appeal and also chairperson of the task force to review all laws relating to women, including some of the Bills which have been enacted in this Parliament. ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can inform you that this task force has been extremely active. As of now, I have already received more than three reports from the task force. The regulations to operationalise the Sexual Offences Act were put together by this task force. I received a report on that. The task force is currently engaged, as you can see, in the training of prosecutors and investigators and have now held such training workshops in nearly all the provincial capitals of this country. Very soon, I am expecting the policy framework document to come out from the ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very important that we have the DNA bank. As I stated, we now have an in-house consultant kindly brought to us by the Department of Justice of the United States of America (USA) and we are involved on how data bank should be set up not only in Nairobi but also throughout Kenya. So, the exercise is on-going and that is the objective. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, out of the 5, 537 cases, 1,894 have been finalised. That leaves 3,643 cases pending before the courts. Of the 1,894 cases which have been finalised, 1,364 resulted in convictions, 315 resulted in acquittals and 215 were withdrawn. view