{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=141750","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=141748","results":[{"id":1433901,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433901/?format=json","text_counter":268,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is precisely in line with that. Let us read history. You think that you can enjoy life, you can have tarmacked roads everywhere, you can have water everywhere and the others are going to live like they are the Red Indians of the old days and the Maasai are still going to be in shukas all their lives and basically be there as a tourist attraction and nothing more. You do not think that they are any equal to you. It does not work. It creates a revolution and the country will go to hell. We are lucky we have not had a violent conflict or a civil war in this country. But it is all around us. It has been in Uganda. It is there in Sudan. It was there in South Sudan. It was there in Somalia. It is now happening in Ethiopia in a manner you cannot imagine. It has happened everywhere except in Tanzania. The only neighbour that has not gone through that is Tanzania. Why Tanzania? You look at the history of that country, the first leader was a Zanaki. The people were no more than 100,000 in population. The second leader Mkapa came from a small minority in the south. The third leader, Jakaya Kikwete, is a Kwere from Bagamoyo. The Kwere are about 30,000 in population. Right now, they have Suluhu. Magufuli also came from a small community. The only guarantee for the future, stability and existence of a country called Kenya is the kind of politics; not the politics where you say you are going to use the impunity of the tyranny of numbers to suppress everybody else. Hon. Temporary Speaker, any chance? 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."},{"id":1433902,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433902/?format=json","text_counter":269,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Are you going to use 30 minutes or one hour?"},{"id":1433903,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433903/?format=json","text_counter":270,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":" One minute. Thank you. You cannot have that, because these are men. I am a man. Man is mankind. I am a man or a woman. That is what the African Americans were fighting for during emancipation in the south. They said, “I am a man”, if you remember in Selma, Montgomery and other places. For you to think that any community is any less worthy than you and yet we all came from colonialism and slavery and everything else, we should know better than that. A small minority of whites colonised us for 70 years and segregated us. You get my point. They were removed both by our own effort and the global effort. Let us unite this country by having fairness, equity and equality – but equity more than anything else. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."},{"id":1433904,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433904/?format=json","text_counter":271,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you. Member for Ol Jorok."},{"id":1433905,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433905/?format=json","text_counter":272,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ol Jorok, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Michael Muchira","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill of 2023. I would like to go straight to the specific Acts. Number one is the National Employment Authority Act. We have had an Authority which has not been able to recruit a substantive CEO due to the difficulties in the Act. The Act says the CEO must be below 35 years but must have experience of 5 years in management level. This cannot not be possible. Therefore, I support the amendment towards removal of that section. I also support the removal of the word “youth” in the Act, because there are too many jobseekers who are above 35 years but are yet to be in any meaningful job. On the Energy Act, I support the issue of including Kenya Power into the membership of the REREC. This will ensure seamless working relationship between REREC and Kenya Power and enhance electrification in our constituencies. We have had a situation where REREC does its work but the metering work, which is done by Kenya Power, takes too long because there is no seamless working relationship between the two. On the Children Act, I support granting male applicants the right to adopt a child. The Act is discriminatory. There is no way you can discriminate against a male applicant from adoption. The guiding principle in adopting a child is the best interest of the child. There are instances where the best interest of the child is with a male applicant. Finally, independence of the PSC and JSC is important. This House has supported independent offices before. In the last financial year, this House passed a resolution that the Auditor-General will have a one-line budget. This was meant to empower the Office of the Auditor- General in undertaking his or her work. The same case should apply to JSC and PSC, which are independent commissions. There is no way you would have a commission and then again purport to regulate the sittings of Parliament. Assuming Parliament is undertaking an investigation into something and then you purport to control the number of its sittings, that amounts to interference with the independence of the institution. Therefore, I support. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."},{"id":1433906,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433906/?format=json","text_counter":273,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you. Member for Dagoretti North."},{"id":1433907,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433907/?format=json","text_counter":274,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.67 of 2023). Let me first start with the objects of the Bill, noting that while we appreciate that sometimes we carry Miscellaneous Bills, it is also important for all of us Members to consider the main Act to have clarity of information when talking about a Bill. 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."},{"id":1433908,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433908/?format=json","text_counter":275,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"I will start with the Children’s Act, 2022 which the Bill proposes to amend by removing the provisions which prohibit the court from granting a sole male applicant adoption of a child. Hon. Temporary Speaker, twenty years ago in this country, a family went through the worst. They went through a case that was very sad through the High Court to Supreme Court at that time. This was a child who was born by a mother who was a Kenyan and the father, a British citizen. When issues arose between them, they had to live with the child when he was seven years at the time. The mother has followed her child all those years until recently when the UK Government, through the courts, granted her permission to see her child. These are some of the issues the Children’s Act, 2022 is going to support not just to that one Kenyan woman but many other Kenyan women who might be going through the same challenges here and even abroad. One cannot bring their child to Kenya because of these restrictions. You remember there was a time in this Parliament we were to pass the Treaty so that we help. I know we rejected it but it is something we need to look at from all angles. As we look at the proposed amendments, we have to ask ourselves… I know there are challenges when we adopt children. They go through a lot of anxiety. They also find themselves incompatible with the families they have gone to and many other things. If we agree to the amendments, we have to look at this issue from both sides and ensure that that a child goes to a homely foster home."},{"id":1433909,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433909/?format=json","text_counter":276,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"On the issue of scrap metal, I agree with Hon. Farah. Today, every metal along our streets has been vandalised. All the metals have been stolen because people know where to sell them. On the whole of Ngong Road and Olenguruone Road, anything metallic has been cut. These companies dealing with copper that we provide licenses to are the ones bringing the challenges we have. In a whole estate you will find a whole place is full of scrap metal. How do you deal with this? While we are talking about climate change and pollution, we are not talking much about scrap metal but encouraging it. We need to think through the issuance of licenses to these companies. This scrap metal business must be abolished because we are encouraging our highways to be vandalised at night and this might turn out to be dangerous while driving on our roads without proper lighting thus veering off. It is something we need to look into even as we agree they need to be given licenses."},{"id":1433910,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433910/?format=json","text_counter":277,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"When I look at the National Employment Authority Act, it states that it shall apply to an employer who employs more than 10 employees and also extends its application to every county government. It also proposes to delete the word “youth” and replaces it with “job seekers”. It is good but then as we bring in the word “job seekers”, we have to ensure every target group for instance People with Disabilities (PWDs) are considered and their gains not eroded hence wondering how they compete in that space."}]}