Abshiro Soka Halake

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• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, a new study launched by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the African Parliamentary Union (APU) on 23rd November, 2021 reveals that sexism, harassment and violence are a norm across parliaments in Africa. The study on African parliaments, reveals that 80 per cent of women parliamentarians experience psychological violence in parliament; 67 per cent are subjected to sexist behavior or remarks; 40 per cent have been sexually harassed; 23 per cent endured physical violence; while 42 per cent received threats of rape, beatings or abduction, majorly online. This Statement comes to this House as a way of ensuring ... view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Above all, we must uphold the rights of women parliamentarians at all costs as enshrined in the Bill of Rights in Chapter 4 of our Constitution and develop policies that entrench zero tolerance to violence, sexism and harassment within Parliament. We must inculcate a sense of responsibility among men and sensitize them to become the defenders of women’s rights in Parliament. More than ever, we must transform our parliaments into safe spaces where both women and men parliamentarians can comfortably carry out their legislative, oversight and representative mandates. I thank you. view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Yes, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to inform the House that this is a study by African Parliamentary Union (IPU). When it came out, member Parliaments have to be informed. This is why it is under 47(1) so that African parliaments, which the Kenyan Parliament is part of, has been highlighted as having this issue. This is a scientific study that was done and, therefore, it was incumbent upon us to sensitise our Parliament on the outcome. Therefore, this is the spirit in which this statement was read. view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, why are my good friends Senators Pogishio and Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., being defensive? If a report touches on African Parliament we highlight the issues, there even if it does not pass. We acknowledge that Sen. Kihika is our represenattie but that does not stop us if she does not bring it up for any of us to say that this is happening and therefore let us be aware of it. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you wish to have us do the report and assign it to a committee, we beg you to do so. Nothing should stop ... view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, how am I privy to information on harassment by every single Senator, clerk of officer in the secretariat. I have no way of knowing whether or not they have been harassed? To ask me to do that is asking me to lie and I refuse to do so in the Floor of this House. This place is sacred and we must try to the best of our ability say what we know not what we want people to hear. view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is Sen. Cherargei and the other male Senators who are being defensive in order to tell me what I should have done or the manner in which I should have prosecuted my business? I have done it in the way I know best. I have been asked for a Statement on a topic of general concern as is. The issue need to be brought to the attention of all African Parliaments because during this electioneering period this could have been missed. I am not going to sit here as a woman for ... view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support Sen. Omanga on her intervention on the unremitted statutory deductions. It is not just Nairobi County Government. I think it affects many counties. This should be checked out. But, that having been said, I am aware of a few Government parastatals that report to my Committee, especially the Postal Corporation of Kenya and others, that had this issue. So, I think this issue is really of great concern to our workers. If we have such a high percentage of people not employed, and therefore, do not even have a source of ... view
• 3 Mar 2022 in Senate: Many parastatals and Government institutions are suffering from this fate and is about time, and a few come to mind. We have been dealing with these things even at the committee level. I think at some point, and I hope that it has been rectified now, KBC, Postal Corporation and many others that perhaps do not report to the Committee that I am the Vice Chair of--- This is something that is very prevalent. This House must actually look at it in a broader form even after we look at Nairobi specifically because Sen. Omanga has asked. I support and ... view