Wakoli Bifwoli

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• 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 Of the 1,894 cases which have been finalised, 1,364 resulted in convictions, 315 resulted in acquittals and 215 were withdrawn.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
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to give that undertaking. My Office takes very seriously these type of offences. The Sexual Offences Prosecution Unit has been set up under the Department of Public Prosecutions. We want to co-operate with the police to ensure that these matters are properly investigated and the culprits brought to book. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I took these allegations in the letter very seriously and brought it to the attention of the Commissioner of Police to do a thorough investigation. This is because the life of any Kenyan, and even more so, that of MPs, is a very serious matter. If it continues, it can destabilize the country. I was assured that investigations are being undertaken in that regard. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Let me also state that if the investigations are complete and there is sufficient evidence, I will undertake prosecutions. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I oppose the deletion. I explained when I was moving this Bill that the new Clause is necessary particularly now when we have the Coalition Government. The problem has come to the fore with the splitting of some Ministries. Under the various provisions under the Act, some of those departments in those Ministries are supposed to be administered by officers in other Ministries. I believe I gave the example of the Ministry of Medical Services and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation where the Director of Medical Services still oversees the Public Health Act, ... view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: I oppose the deletion of this provision. view