William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The Office of the County Attorney Bill is critical for the functioning of the county governments. The equivalent of the county attorney is the Attorney-General in respect to the national Government. It is the sole office that will guide and advise the county governments. So, it is a very important office. We realise that a huge sum of our resources is allocated to counties. The counties should have a qualified attorney; somebody with relevant expertise and experience. That is why the Senate Bill proposes that the person qualified to be a county attorney should have an experience of five years. ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: One of the reasons we will propose that amendment is to attract very qualified persons to occupy that office. If we allow appointment to that office of persons with an experience of five years, then we are bound to have a county attorney who is not experienced enough. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The other issue we considered is the tenure of the Office of the County Attorney. The Senate Bill proposes that the county attorney should serve for five years. We realised that if we allow that provision to stand in this law, it means that county attorney will only serve for the term of a governor, which is five years. We want continuity of the Office of the County Attorney so that once a governor’s term expires, the county attorney can continue to serve for another one or two years and provide information and support to the incoming governor. Again, we ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Another critical issue I want to raise is the level or status of the county attorney. The Bill places the county attorney at a lower level, that is, junior to a member of County Executive Committee of the county government. That office is critical. In the national Government, the Attorney-General sits in the Cabinet. We need to apply the same principle so that we have the county attorney sitting in the cabinet of the county government. That is important because it will enable him to guide the county cabinet in making sound decisions especially where legal advice is required. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: These are some of the areas we propose to make amendments. However, we actually retained most of the clauses as proposed by the Senate except those ones we have proposed to amend in the Committee of the whole House. This is to ensure we have a very sound legal practice in counties. view
• 4 Jun 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
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: Reports of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on its consideration of: (i) the State of the Judiciary and Administration of Justice Report for the Year 2016/2017; and, (ii) the State of the Judiciary and Administration of Justice Report for the Year 2017/2018. Hon. Speaker, allow me to request my colleagues to have time to obtain copies of this Report at the Table Office, so that they can have time to go through them and when we come back from recess ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Leader of the Majority Party has ably moved this Bill. Mine is just to second and make few comments on it. As rightly said by the Leader of the Majority Party, the Bill seeks to make various wide ranging amendments to various Statutes. Various Departmental Committees reviewed the Bills and Statutes. I just want to mention that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs had seven Statutes to amend, the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security had three, Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning had three, Departmental Committee on Sports, ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: So, Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs had the highest because we had seven statutes to amend. That is why we become the lead Committee. Therefore, we were able to receive Reports from the various Committees and we tabled a compiled Report of those six Departmental Committees. I just want to mention that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs when considering amendments to the seven Statutes found some amendments justified to be undertaken because they are minor. They did not need very serious consideration or comprehensive review and we allowed them. But, there were those we found ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: amendments is that it is either the Memorandum or Articles of Association which allow the company to allot shares or the directors to make that resolution. So, we felt it was good to give powers to the company. This is because if you want to allot shares and you give that power to the directors alone without the resolution of the majority of the shareholders, you can easily prejudice some of those shareholders in that company. So, we want to allow the owners of that company to be briefed, to pass the resolution and be able to allot shares to ... view