William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Leader of the Majority Party has ably moved the Bill. I want to second it. 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
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As I second, I wish to confirm to the House that the various committees dealing with the various statutes, indeed, prepared their reports and forwarded to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, which I chair. As the lead Committee, we tabled before the House our Report together with reports from those various committees. Therefore, I want to confirm to the House that as the Committee, that is exactly what we have done. view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Bills seek to make various wide-ranging amendments to various statutes. As the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we dealt with 21 Bills. Out of the 37 mentioned by the Leader of the Majority Party, my Committee dealt with 21. Therefore, we were the lead committee and that is why we gathered the other reports and jointly tabled them before the House. view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The mandate of the various departmental committees was to consider proposed amendments relating to the various statutes under their purview. My Committee was tasked to compile and then present to the House one Report on behalf of all committees which reviewed the Bills. I confirm that, that was done. The Leader of the Majority Party has taken us through the various proposed amendments to the various statutes. The business of the House will be to deal with those amendments guided by the Report by the various committees at the Second Reading. view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Leader of the Majority Party has ably moved the Bill. I want to second it. As I second, I wish to confirm to the House that the various committees dealing with the various statutes, indeed, prepared their reports and forwarded to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, which I chair. As the lead Committee, we tabled before the House our Report together with reports from those various committees. Therefore, I want to confirm to the House that as the Committee, that is exactly what we have done. view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: One important thing the House needs to know is that public participation in law making process is mandatory. It is a constitutional requirement that the public must be invited to present memoranda to committees so that it helps the committees to incorporate the views and recommendations from the public in their reports. I confirm to the House that every committee has sections in their reports informing the House how they undertook public participation especially after the Clerk of the National Assembly invited the public through the newspapers to give their presentations and memoranda. The members of public, either individually, institutions ... view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Bills seek to make various wide-ranging amendments to various statutes. As the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we dealt with 21 Bills. Out of the 37 mentioned by the Leader of the Majority Party, my Committee dealt with 21. Therefore, we were the lead committee and that is why we gathered the other reports and jointly tabled them before the House. view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Among the institutions which appeared before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to make submissions include the Judiciary, the EACC, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Office of the Attorney-General, Department of Justice and even the land sector. They gave views on areas which we felt it was good for them to clarify. The laws that are proposed to be amended are those that affect those institutions and it was important for them to give their views. They were able to do so. view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The reports of the various committees, I want to confirm again, contain public submissions on the proposed amendments by the committee and even the rationale for the proposed amendments which are before the House for consideration for adoption. I encourage the Members that as we go to the Second Reading to debate the Bill, it is important for them to refer to the reports which have all the rationale from the committees and the public. This should enrich their contributions in the Second Reading as we move to the Committee of the whole House. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 7 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The mandate of the various departmental committees was to consider proposed amendments relating to the various statutes under their purview. My Committee was tasked to compile and then present to the House one Report on behalf of all committees which reviewed the Bills. I confirm that, that was done. The Leader of the Majority Party has taken us through the various proposed amendments to the various statutes. The business of the House will be to deal with those amendments guided by the Report by the various committees at the Second Reading. view