William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I believe Hon. Members have a copy of the Bill. Clause 2 of the Bill is about interpretation of various items. For example, “the clerk” means the clerk of a county assembly, “petition” means a written prayer to a county assembly under Section 15 of the County Governments Act, “Speaker” means the speaker of the county assembly. So, the whole of Clause 2 deals with various definitions. As I said this is all about the county assembly. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Clause 3 outlines the contents and the form of a petition. What should a petition contain and what form should it take? If you want to present a petition to the county assembly, what form should the petition take? It should be handwritten, typed or printed, it will be in English or Kiswahili language, be written in respectful language and be free of alterations. So, the whole of Clause 3 is just to enable a Kenyan who would wish to file a petition to be guided on what is the content of the petition and the form, which is exactly ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Clause 4 talks about the procedure for presenting the petition. It says the petition to a county assembly shall be submitted to the respective clerks by the petitioner or presented by a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) on behalf… So, it is either done by the petitioner himself directly to the county assembly through the clerk or through MCAs. Again, that is what happens in our National Assembly, where a Member can present a petition on behalf of a citizen and with the approval of the Hon. Speaker view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Clause 4 (1) (2) deals with the procedure. Then Section 5 is on consideration of the petition. It outlines what happens if the petition comes to the clerk. He is supposed to certify that the petition is indeed undertaken in the format that is set out in Clause 3 and the contents are in good language. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Clause 6 is about register of petitions. There should be a register for all petitions presented to the county assembly just like here where we have a register for petitions. Clause 7 talks about the amendment to Section 15 of the County Governments Act. The reason for that amendment is so that this new procedure of presenting petitions is captured in the County Governments Act. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: So, those are the clauses in that Bill and they are that few. After we went through all these clauses, we found that Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 of the Bill had no problem. The Committee had a problem with Clause 5 (3) because the Senate has taken submissions from stakeholders, as I have said and it is observed that the Bill provides for mandatory public hearing with respect to every petition. We felt that this provision is not proper. There could be straightforward petitions which do not need to go to the public to seek views. ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Even in our case, and my colleague is here, all Chairs of Committees in this House can confirm that we deal with petitions as they appear before us. We invite the petitioner to appear before the Committee and prosecute his or her petition. Once this is done then we communicate the outcome of the petition to the petitioner through the Clerk and table the report in the House. So, we did not want to breach Article 201 of the Constitution in terms of spending resources of our country in a prudent manner. This is the part we need to amend. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: In Clause 5(4) we observed that the provision allows county assemblies to debate committee reports on a petition and either approve, vary or reject the findings and recommendations of the committee. You have been here long enough serving as a Speaker in the House. Rarely, do we discuss petitions. This law wants to make it mandatory that the county assemblies must debate every report of a committee on a petition. Again, we feel this is extending too much. The rule is always that we debate Motions and Bills. It should not be mandatory that every petition should be debated. You ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view