Dr. Agnes Zani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: I, therefore, support this Statement and we are looking forward to the feedback from that Committee and the answers it will give. We hope for a very comprehensive response to this Statement. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This Statement which has been sought by Sen. Wetangula – and we really appreciate him for bringing it to the House – reads like a nitty gritty of the process that anybody should go through when they are thinking of implementing a project. It contains the sort of the questions that should be asked, and the sort of answers that should be sought in advance. Madam Temporary Speaker, for a long time, questions were raised about the whole issue of getting children to have laptops. Many of these issues would been avoided if people had ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand to second that these amendments that came from the National Assembly be considered in the Senate. This is one of the important Bills that came as we were finishing the last Session. It deals with governors, their transition and many other issues that are meant to create harmony as the transition is being made from one county government to another and one governor to another. It ensures, for example, that assets are well documented and things are put into order even in terms of the ceremony. While the Bill was being moved and ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this Bill and congratulate Sen. Halake for bringing it. I also remember that Sen. Hassan Omar brought this Bill in the Eleventh Parliament, and he was very passionate about it, as would be any Kenyan. This is the basis of life and development. You are not going to talk about anything if you are not going to talk about the basic rights, and these have been enshrined clearly in the Constitution but all over the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is interesting that across the world, various countries have various levels ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: capture the level of inequalities by having, for example, various measures. One of these measures is a Gini co-efficient, which gives a figure of zero to one. The more person or county is closer to one, the more unequal they are; and the more they are closer to zero, the more equality they seem to exhibit. It is, therefore, difficult to have, for example, a national Gini coefficient. We have it proposed at 0.445 per cent, which gives a level of almost in the middle there; suggesting that when they report, there is still quite a high level of inequalities. ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: However, Madam Temporary Speaker, we do not even have to look at the Gini coefficient to realize that we have a problem. If you look at the various sectors where, for example, inequalities are likely to come about, then there are various levels of inequalities that will be there. For instance, the inequalities of income; and that discrepancy is very high. Any theories – for example, on stratification – will talk about the various stratus right from the days of Karl Marx and Max Weber, who talked about social clarification and stratification. In Karl Marx’s terms, these are the bourgeoisie ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Therefore, all countries try to, as much as possible, reduce the inequality gap. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done. For example – and I think Sen. Halake mentioned this – the top 10 per cent of the richest households in Kenya are the ones which control 40 per cent of the country’s income. On the other side, the poorest 10 per cent control less than one per cent. Therefore, once again, when you are talking abut forces of production and forces of economic production, you are talking about a situation where those who are very poor do not even ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: As I said, this is not only a problem in Kenya; it is, indeed, profound in Kenya where you find that many people go through primary education but when it comes to transition to secondary schools, it dwindles. If you were watching television about two or three days ago, there is a young girl from Narok County who scored 407 points and was called to The Kenya High School and unless well-wishers come to her aid, she will not manage to pursue her dreams because the parents cannot afford. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, there are inequalities in water, health and the list goes on and on, to our very own gender inequalities that come in as a result of all that. I The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view