Ochieng Tom Kajwang

Hon. Ochieng Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just want to support what Hon. Olago has said because I sit in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We agreed that the amount of money for procurement of the ballot papers, as requested by the IEBC, is as indicated in...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just want to support what Hon. Olago has said because I sit in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We agreed that the amount of money for procurement of the ballot papers, as requested by the IEBC, is as indicated in...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for, at least, this time around, bringing this ritual earlier. It is a ritual because, as Hon. Manje has said, nothing earth- shaking or ground-breaking is here....

Hon. Ochieng Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I like his choice of words. It is, indeed, wrong for the President to switch on lights in a rundown house. It is, in fact, a shame. What if that house falls down tomorrow? You rightly said “rundown”. You cannot support that as a...

Hon. Kajwang’ On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The Temporary Deputy Chairman (Hon. Cheboi) : What is it, Hon. Kajwang’? Let us have the Mover and then I will give you an opportunity, Hon. Kajwang’. The Retirement Benefits (Deputy President and Designated State Officers) Act

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. What the Chair of the Committee is doing makes sense because he is clarifying the law. I think the Chair owes us an apology because the truth of the matter is that the Chair knows that he did not come to the...

Hon. Kajwang’ (Inaudible) The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Omulele) : I have not skipped you. I just recognised that you are my senior. You are the next one.

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The devil lives in the detail. After receiving the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, we have to be very careful. This is the time when many of the authorities charged with the duty of proposing legislation bring what can be termed as...

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Speaker, when you mentioned my name in volume, you were a little high, I thought that I had made a mistake and so, I was about to go under the table. As you know, I respect you very much. I support this Bill. The problem we have...

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Even before I move this amendment, I have been pressing my intervention button and you said that the only way by which you are able to know that somebody is on a point of order is by seeing your screen. I think...

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you. I wish to drop my amendments as contained in the Order Paper. (Proposed amendment by Hon. Kajwang’ dropped)

Hon. Kajwang’ On a point of order.

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady something is bothering me with the Chair of Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. It is within his right as the Chair to propose the amendments and to insist with them, but to give a reason as he has Hon. Kajwang’given before that...

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I wish to withdraw my amendments. (Proposed amendments by Hon. Kajwang’ withdrawn) (Clause 14 agreed to)

Hon. Ochieng

Hon. Kajwang’ I wish to withdraw that amendment. (Proposed amendments by Hon. A.B. Duale, Hon. Chepkong’a, and Hon. Kajwang’ withdrawn) (Clause 38 agreed to) (Clause 39 and 40 agreed to) Clause 41

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Speaker, when you mentioned my name in volume, you were a little high, I thought that I had made a mistake and so, I was about to go under the table. As you know, I respect you very much. I support this Bill. The problem we have...

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Even before I move this amendment, I have been pressing my intervention button and you said that the only way by which you are able to know that somebody is on a point of order is by seeing your screen. I think...

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you. I wish to drop my amendments as contained in the Order Paper. (Proposed amendment by Hon. Kajwang’ dropped)

Hon. Kajwang’ On a point of order.

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady something is bothering me with the Chair of Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. It is within his right as the Chair to propose the amendments and to insist with them, but to give a reason as he has Hon. Kajwang’given before that...

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I wish to withdraw my amendments. (Proposed amendments by Hon. Kajwang’ withdrawn) (Clause 14 agreed to)

Hon. Ochieng

Hon. Kajwang’ I wish to withdraw that amendment. (Proposed amendments by Hon. A.B. Duale, Hon. Chepkong’a, and Hon. Kajwang’ withdrawn) (Clause 38 agreed to) (Clause 39 and 40 agreed to) Clause 41

Hon. Ochieng Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. I hope that ruling does not apply to me because it was made after I rose on my feet. I want to support the Bill. Before I support this Bill, I would like to say that whenever you see the leaders of...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. What has been harped by the Leader of the Majority Party this afternoon is that this is a negotiated Bill and some things cannot be Hon. Ochiengdone. Thank you so much for that ruling. The offences in this Act, like Hon. Jakoyo...

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Junet, you have already contributed.

Hon. Kajwang’ Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I look at the Election Offences Bill and the Bill which we have just debated, I am very delighted that I blew the first whistle that brought a series of activities out of which these two Bills were borne. Sometimes I...

Hon. Kajwang It will come to the Floor. You are saying no and the other time you did not want party-hopping. We want credible nominations which will be accepted by everybody, conducted using taxpayers’ money, the police, with the national register, at the same time and in the same venue...

Hon. Kajwang’ Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are many more reasons I would prefer Hon. Olago as my President. He speaks the truth and the law. I think what we need to understand is how this matter is going to go through the route of law-making. Today we have a...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to also support Hon. M’eruaki’s Petition. In May this year, we had a report from the media that a certain soldier who had participated in the Linda Nchi Operation in Somalia was dismissed because of a mental condition. The same month, we...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Public Accounts Committee on Government Accounts for the Year 2013/2014. I thank the Chairman, Hon. Gumbo, for doing a good job especially under the pressures we have gone through in the last few years, especially with...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Before I move the amendments, I want to congratulate the Mover of the Motion, Hon. Gumbo, the Chairman of the PAC for a very well-balanced report that gives us an in-depth analysis of what the happenings have been in the Judiciary and...

Hon. Ochieng Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Motion be amended as follows:- By inserting the following words immediately after the words “Tuesday, 7th July, 2015”- “Subject to the –

Hon. Ochieng Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. My second amendment is with regard to Recommendation No.4 that states:- “For his failure to provide leadership, the Chief Justice (CJ) must take personal responsibility for allowances paid to the Commissioners of the JSC for attending meetings that were not convened with...

Hon. Ochieng Hon. Speaker, what has just happened this afternoon is an interesting thing that you would probably want to rule on for future reference. It is not a small matter. I can see Hon. Chepkong’a laughing at it. The rules about seconding are clear. If you agree to second...

Hon. Ochieng Hon. Speaker, I will request Hon. Mulu to second.

Hon. Ochieng’ Hon. Speaker, I second. Thank you.

Hon. Ochieng Hon. Speaker, I do not know whether to second or not. This contradiction tells you - I hope Hon. Chepkong’a learns from what we were talking about earlier on - that all these things that we do in Parliament, especially when we talk about corruption, we talk about...

Hon. Ochieng Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank Hon. A. B. Duale and Hon. Gumbo, for their comments on this item because it raises very weighty issues. Last year, you remember one matter that we grappled with at the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs...