Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 321 to 330 of 1948.

• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: With all the interruptions of my thought process, I support the 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. view
• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when the history of the 11th Parliament will be written, it is legislative measures such as this that will be recorded as landmark pieces of legislation. I thank my sister, Hon. Gladys Wanga, for bringing this Motion. view
• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The greatest challenge with the disease is easy access to early detection and effective treatment by investing in the personnel and technical capacity to detect and effectively treat it. When we ensure that our people can access that service, we will start to win this war. view
• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion. view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, epochal moments that deserve to be inscribed with golden letters in the annals of history are normally moments like this one. This is a moment when this House is seized of a truly historic piece of legislation. Before I get to this Bill, I am surprised that we are telling people to tone down and not to raise temperatures. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is the Chamber that provides a platform for the collective passion, fears, dreams and even insanity of the people of this nation. So, if there is one place that we must allow passions to ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, for our mothers, wives, daughters and Kenya, let us support this Bill. The greatest stumbling block to this Bill is the concern on numbers. We are concerned that we do not want to turn this Chamber into a high school. We do not want to be too many, so that we cannot fit in the lobby or in the dining hall. There is also the argument that it is too expensive. I want to tell this House, on the question of numbers, the necessity to reduce the size of representation in this country is a challenge we ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: to do here might be, it cannot surpass the laws occasioned by locking out 50 per cent of the population from leadership. However expensive representation along this route maybe, it certainly cannot surpass the loss that is occasioned by locking out the passion, ingenuity, humility, dedication and the attention to detail that women bring to leadership. However expensive this venture may ultimately be, it cannot surpass the nobility and the imperative of correcting centuries of exclusion and subjugation that literally turned women into spectators in matters of leadership. Therefore, let us put aside those fears and declare our fidelity to ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Let me also add my voice to the position already so lucidly articulated by my very able party Chairman, Member for Suba, Hon. Mbadi, that the official position of ODM, the party for which I speak as the Secretary-General, is to support without equivocation or prevarication this Bill in totality. We support this Bill because we believe in the Constitution of this Republic. We support this Bill because we believe in the contribution of the women and all the citizens of this land. view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, any other view that you may hear coming from your left hand side of this Chamber is personal and fortunately, it is in a very tiny minority. The vast majority of the membership of the ODM and CORD support this Bill. view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: When you look at the structure of ODM, you see respect for women and fidelity to the principle of gender inclusivity. Right from our National Executive Committee all the way to our grassroot structures, we implement the two-thirds gender rule with strict adherence only comparable to the practice of religion. So, let there not be any misconception that this great party, the country’s biggest and swankiest party south of the Sahara, North of the Limpopo, has any doubts whatsoever on the support for this Bill. Our party leader, the irrepressible, Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, said “Let us say ‘aye’ to ... view