Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1201 to 1210 of 1750.

• 12 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that Preservation of Human Dignity and Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights Bill (Senate Bills No.77 of 2018) be now read a Third Time. I ask Sen. Githiomi to second. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Senator in order to reduce the very important issue of mental health to a girl coming to town to apply some make up? This is not a male or female issue. I do not think it is in order for the Senator to make it light. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not think it is in order for the Senator to use such sexist examples. He can find a better example. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will find it. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Bill by Sen. Kasanga. It is very timely in the sense that it is about time we had mental health reforms in this country. I am happy to know that Sen. Kasanga is a reform-minded Senator. She has come up with this Bill, where she has looked at every aspect; from the rights of the patients, the obligations of the national Government, the county government and everything else. There is one thing I would like to tell my friend, Sen. Kasanga, to strengthen. This is the fact that there is ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: is not necessarily institution-based. There was a movement in the health reform sector around the world to de-institutionalise mental health care. This is because it has been found - as one of the Senators has said - that sometimes institutionalising and putting people in centres makes them worse because of the stigma associated with mental illness. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy to note that a lot of care has gone into looking at the rights issues, standards, prevention, discrimination and other liberties that come with this issue. However, as the Senate, there is one area that we need ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: think that is the way to go. How do we, then, have community-based care for some of these diseases, especially mental illness, where we can have community health volunteers at the county level who are doing other things? We also need to look at the relationship among the diseases. For example, HIV can be a cause of mental illness, but also be the reason one does not die of HIV. We have community health volunteers going from community health units doing HIV work. How do we then piggy back mental health onto this community-based care for other diseases to ensure ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: I support this Bill and I congratulate Sen. Kasanga for being so reform-minded. Let us make this even more cutting edge by looking at it from a perspective that is more sustainable and family-based. Let us do away with some of the stigma, some of the access and rights issues that have plagued the previous Act. view
• 6 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish I could get more minutes. However, I support this Statement and condole with the families. I also acknowledge that this conflict over resources is becoming unbearable. I do not believe that compensation, fines and such kind of things are the solution to this problem. I know that the KWS model where they police and look after animals, but exclude the communities around the parks definitely is not working. We have provided in this House an alternative model of community conservation, where the community takes charge of everything and gets support from Government in ... view
• 29 May 2019 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I rise to support this Statement by Sen. Pareno. I am very pleased that the Land Index Bill is before mediation committee because I have had issues with it for a very long time. It is very punitive, especially for communities. It is based a model that is colonial in the sense that it cannot purport to do a development at the expense of disenfranchisement of communities, especially in pastoral areas. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know that we take advantage of some of these Statements to push through ... view