Wesley Kipchumba Korir

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are many victims in this country who are suffering because of being mistreated in one way or the other. In the villages, victims are scared of reporting crimes that have been committed against them because of fear that when you report a crime to the police or to the authorities and then that person who has committed the crime against you is released, they come back to torture or haunt you. We need to protect the victims no matter where they are. We need to set up a system that really looks at the victims ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need a system in this country to look forward and prevent what happened. Look at the situation in this country where the post- election violence victims of 2007 are still suffering in the camps. We had the report by Amnesty International yesterday released and clearly you can see that there are many people still suffering because we do not have a system in this country that prevents such happenings. We lack a system to compensate people who are suffering. We have depended on politicians and the Government to use this as mileage. They give these ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also like what hon. Mbadi has said, that this Bill also covers those Kenyans who are tortured outside this country. We have many people who leave this country in search of work in other countries and then they become victims of torture and mistreatment out there. We need an agency and a system whereby those people can also be protected by the Government of Kenya. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, also, we have victims of war. Today I had requested a statement on the same. I am sorry I was late because the President was leaving State House and the roads were closed. I was coming from that area. I raised a very special issue of victims of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). They are victims and they are suffering. Their families are very much suffering. The Standard Newspaper, for a whole week focused on the suffering of the people out there because of the war in Somalia. I requested for that statement because we need ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: So, thank you very much Millie Odhiambo for bringing this Bill and let us support it. Let us bring amendments to it so that we make sure that it really targets and covers people who are suffering outside this country. We have people who are very poor and those who are very rich. A rich person can do something wrong to a poor person but because they do not have money to get a lawyer, the rich person goes free. We need the Government to provide lawyers for those people who do not have money to hire them so that ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support and thank you very much for giving me an opportunity. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Considering the interest of hon. Members in this Bill, I would like to suggest that we reduce the time of contributing to about three minutes so that we all share. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Considering the interest of hon. Members in this Bill, I would like to suggest that we reduce the time of contributing to about three minutes so that we all share. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, since I have the microphone, let me just continue. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, since I have the microphone, let me just continue. view