William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Pursuant to Standing Order No. 227, the Petition regarding the funding of lesbians, gays, transgender and intersex agenda by foreign organisations in Kenya by Hon. (Ms.) Shamalla was committed to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for consideration and report to the House within 60 days. While considering the Petition, the Committee resolved to invite the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Coordination Board on the status and the annual funding of the LGBTQI agenda, Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK), Law Society of Kenya (LSK), among others, to seek their views regarding the LGBTQI agenda. view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I wish to report to the House that the Petitioner, Hon. (Ms.) Shamalla, appeared before the Committee on 8th August 2019. Due to the mandate of the Committee, we conducted several public participation sessions on a number of constitutional amendment Bills even during the recess. Given that we operate within the time stipulated in the Calendar of the House, the Committee was unable to get views from the said stakeholders within the time which was prescribed. The matters raised in the Petition are of great public concern. There is need for us to listen to Kenyans and the institutions that ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The faith-based organisations are very concerned. We request for more time to enable the Committee to conduct more public participation from the institutions and the members of the public. I beg to move and request Hon. Munene to second. view
• 8 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for that very comprehensive and well considered ruling. It is the business of this House and every Member to protect the Constitution. What you have done this afternoon is to reaffirm the position that this House has the powers to share the revenues of this country. I think this is the right direction. The so-called conflict between the National Assembly and the Senate is misconceived. We should be guided by the Constitution as the framers desired and Kenyans passed it in 2010. The powers of this House are well spelt out in the Constitution in ... view
• 8 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for that very comprehensive and well considered ruling. It is the business of this House and every Member to protect the Constitution. What you have done this afternoon is to reaffirm the position that this House has the powers to share the revenues of this country. I think this is the right direction. The so-called conflict between the National Assembly and the Senate is misconceived. We should be guided by the Constitution as the framers desired and Kenyans passed it in 2010. The powers of this House are well spelt out in the Constitution in ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First of all, I wish to thank Hon. Wamalwa for coming up with this Bill. I confirm that, indeed, this Bill was introduced in the 11th Parliament. It came before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, which I was a member with Hon. Ochieng’. We passed the Bill that time. When the Bill went before the President, it was returned with a memorandum. Hon. Wamalwa, thereafter, came up with this Bill in the 12th Parliament. It came before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and we subjected it to the usual ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: few. I do not want to repeat that. That is the first challenge that we have with this Bill. It is also what the President raised in his memorandum when he returned the Bill back to the House. The same comments were raised by ICPAK, by Anjarwalla and Khanna Advocates, in the submissions by James Nabangi and finally, by APSEA. Taking into account all these views by the stakeholders who made their presentations during the public participation, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs made the following decision. Let me mention what the Attorney-General said. He gave his view ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries (Amendment) (No.3) Bill (National Assembly Bill) No.35 be now read a Second Time. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I agree with you that this is a very important Bill. I request my colleagues to take time to listen and understand its essence. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is one of the constitutional commissions as provided for in Chapter 15 of the Constitution. According to the provisions of Article 250(1), IEBC and all constitutional commissions should have a minimum of three commissioners and a maximum of nine. The Constitution sets the minimum and maximum number of commissioners. Section 5 of the IEBC Act sets the number of members of the Commission at seven. I am ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Article 88 of the Constitution and the provisions of the IEBC Act mandate the Commission to deal with very weighty issues like boundaries delimitation in the country, an issue that will be coming up very soon. The Commission oversees elections. Recently, we had a number of by-elections undertaken by the Commission. Currently, there is a discussion in the country about a referendum and, recently the same Commission okayed the Punguza Mizigo Initiative. The Commission undertakes serious issues that require us to consider whether the existence of three commissioners as opposed to seven is tenable under the circumstances. There is, therefore, ... view