William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 761 to 770 of 1616.

• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: it? That is why on 8th August, these Members were given the power to pass laws. I do not want to go beyond that. I just want to humbly submit before this House that it is important that we expand the definition of a chairperson to include another person who is acting in that office. Allow me to now go to Clause 3 of the Bill which seeks to amend Section 6 of the IEBC Act. The clause touches on the qualification of appointment as the IEBC chairperson. It is important for Members to know that under Section 6 (1) ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: The same relates to the issue of decision-making. You will agree with me that quorum is linked to decision-making of the Commission. If you have seven members and you say the quorum shall be half the number of commissioners, it means that you can actually have members meeting but cannot make a decision. If you have four members or three members sitting, and yet the law says it should be half of the total number, it means you can have a meeting duly constituted with quorum but cannot make a decision because you need all the members to be present. ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Let me go to Clause 5 which seeks to delete Section 29 of the Elections Act to remove the requirement that persons who nominate a presidential candidate must be members of the candidate’s political party, and further that persons who nominate independent presidential candidates must not be members of any political party. This is part of cleaning of our laws. That particular section has been declared unconstitutional in the case of Mr. Peter Solomon Gichira versus IEBC, which I referred to earlier. The court told us that the entire Section 29 of the Act is in violation of Article 27(4) ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Clause 6 of the Bill seeks to amend Clause 39 of Elections Act 2011. In the amendment, it proposes that apart from the electronic transmission of the results to the constituency tallying centre and the national tallying centre, the Commission should also manually transmit the results. From the argument in the Supreme Court, it was clear that forms 34A were alleged not to have been received. I would like to make this point very clear because there is a perception outside there that we are going back to the dark days. They say the dark days of Kenya African National ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: She said, “My first contact with my leaders on that day of 8th August 2017 was the ballot paper. By 6 a.m. in the morning, I was already at a polling station waiting to vote for my president and other leaders. I walked manually. I presented my identification card to the election The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: team manually. I presented my fingers for fingerprints manually, picked the ballot paper manually, ticked the name of my presidential candidate and other leaders in the ballot paper manually, proceeded to the ballot box and dropped the ballot paper in the ballot box manually. I waited and thereafter went back home manually. This marked the end of my voting, and I went home manually.” view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: My business and responsibility as a citizen is to express my right to choose my leaders and do so manually. Any other process was not my business.” view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: She went ahead and posed a question as to where her vote went in light of the decision of the Supreme Court to nullify the election. view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I can say without fear that a substantial process of our election is actually manual. The only time the electronic process comes into play is at the time of transmission of results to the national tallying centre. It is, therefore, important for this House to give equal weight to the manual transmission. Again, the question is: what is manual transmission? Is it possible to have manual transmission? Shockingly, when the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission appeared before us, they agreed with us and that lady I have just talked about--- The IEBC even went further and said, instead ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: We want to give equal weight to the process of manual transmission which is actually physical delivery of the results. Therefore, in the Committee of the whole House, I will be moving some amendments particularly to Clause 6 so that we provide for that position. In addition, Clause 6 of the Bill seeks to address an issue determined by the High Court of Kenya in the Maina Kiai Case, which I highlighted earlier. This is in regard to the expression of provisional results which led the court to declare the current Section 39(2) and (3) of the Elections Act unconstitutional. ... view