Agnes Kavindu Muthama

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I want to start by saying that I do not support this Bill. The reasons I will not even support it is because, from our forefathers, this nation was built through harambee. There are three very important harambees that people conduct in this country. One is fundraising for school fees. Even now, after the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) is in place, it cannot provide school fees or bursaries for each and every child, especially those who are coming from very poor backgrounds. That is a harambee that I will ... view
• 14 Nov 2024 in Senate: They are not getting the help that they were getting before. They cannot even afford money to pay for accommodation. So, they are going to college and loitering around during daytime and going to look for abandoned places to go and sleep because they cannot afford. I can never vote for this Bill to continue because what are we telling those students who cannot afford school fees right now? They have no food to eat, they have nowhere to sleep, yet we are sleeping comfortably and here we are making laws to continue oppressing them? The second reason I cannot ... view
• 14 Nov 2024 in Senate: build mosques for them. Pastors as well depend on their congregations and well- wishers to build churches. Let me detach myself completely from this. The Bible tells me that you can never touch the apple of the eye of God. If we touch the church, we will be fighting with God. I am sure there is no one particular man or kingdom that can fight with God. Since we build churches through fundraising, I will say no to this Bill, unless we allocate funds for churches to do their developments. If the Government allocates funds for churches, then we can ... view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. It is sad to be here every Wednesday morning and not see any Cabinet Secretary coming to answer the questions. It is important for them to know that we have cancelled all other businesses for this House on Wednesday Morning to give the questions first priority because we needed to ask questions on the issues they should be doing. We have even cancelled Committee meetings. I am here this morning because of the 1998 bomb blast. The people are suffering without any care from our Government. I was ready to ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, I want to know how prepared you are about the Grade 8 candidates who are supposed to go to Grade 9 in January considering that many of the schools have no infrastructure. I do not know what you are doing about that as a matter of urgency. You can update us on what you are planning to do. view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, from the tragedy of Kyanguli on 25th of March, 2001, the Ministry of Education must have put in place strict measures about fires in schools by now. I would also like to know if those students who died in the Kyanguli tragedy were completely compensated. view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to, first of all, congratulate you on this County Public Finance Law Amendment Bill 2023, because this is very much overdue. I remember there are two more recommendations about MCAs being given financial autonomy. When I was in the Building of Bridges Initiative (BBI) we had also recommended that they be given Ward Fund directly to them without passing through, the governors. Also, the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report has recommended that they be given funds directly so that they can be able to work. I am talking as the ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: to dance to the tune of the governor. If they do not dance to the tune of the governor, then their wards will not be developed; which means they might not be reelected back again. They have to move around with the governors, even when they have other business to do, because if they do not, then it is said that they are against the governors. I have come across some incidents where if an MCA brings a Statement or a Motion like we do here, then they are told that they are fighting the governors. So, those Statements are ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My question to the Cabinet Secretary is not about the CDF bursaries. It is about hardship allowances in Mwala and Kalama sub-counties. By all standards, Mwala and Kalama sub-counties are supposed qualify for hardship allowances because even the surrounding sub-counties like Yatta and parts of Makueni where we border Mwala, receive hardship allowances. We have been requesting for these allowances for Mwala sub-counties and Kalama, but nothing has come up. What is the Cabinet Secretary doing about these sub-counties? view
• 17 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My question is directed to the lawyers of hon. Mutuse. view