Dr. Agnes Zani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Aug 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I beg to move and request Sen. (Dr.) Milgo to second. view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I think a lot already has been said and quite a bit of it is going to be repetition. Sometime back, I had a chance to talk about statelessness in one of the forums that I went to. This is not about statelessness but it is about displacement which is just as bad. When you do not have a sense of identity; you do not feel you belong; when inequality is very high and when you cannot contribute functionally as a person to a country then it is a problem. view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: It is really sad that for this particular County of Nyandarua, it has come to the fore. However, I am sure many other counties have the same situation. I plead that as this Committee interrogates this issue, they probably try to address this on a broad scale. This is so that they can identify and have this situation sorted out once and for all. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think it has gone on for far too long. Sen. Mwangi, we are happy that you have been able to bring it to the table. The Committee needs to do a good ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary, Speaker. Just very quickly on the Petitions, I think Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has already mentioned that they are time bound. One of the techniques that some committees use is just to have sub-committees. This is because if you have a committee of about nine Members and you have a sub- committee of about three Members, each is able to fast track consideration of that Petition. Maybe we can encourage some of our committees to do that. Looking at the Order Paper, we had a Motion on Order No.9 which is to help us to use ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: of business on the Order Paper. We are up to the task and we will have it all done very well. I thank you. view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to second this Motion on the approval of the Third Report of the Committee on Procedure and Rules on amendments to the Senate Standing Orders to facilitate virtual sittings of the Senate and its committees. The Motion has been moved by Sen. (Prof.) Kamar very aptly. This is a very interesting area because many parliaments did not foresee that the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) would happen, yet a balance has to be created to ensure that legislative matters get addressed on a continuous basis. The Standing Orders that we have, therefore, ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am a Member of this Committee, and I remember that even this meeting was held virtually and very aptly. Over time, I think we have been able to innovate ourselves in a very comprehensive manner. We have been able to take the situation that we have been in, in such a way that we have been able to progress. Already, quite a number of committees are able to now meet through the ZOOM online meeting platform. We have also been having a hybrid system of meetings within the Senate, where we have been having the ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: essence, what we are diverting and changing a little bit is the fact that we are not able to meet in the physical space, but can conduct our business as though we are still together. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the rules of speaking and muting, and not everybody speaking at the same time, are all very critical and have been addressed within these Standing Orders. This is so that when somebody is given a chance to speak, that is when they will speak. When one person is speaking, another person will not interrupt, so that people can mute and unmute ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: the location of Parliament and parliamentary precincts is also addressed. Once we are in either a fully virtual or hybrid system in a meeting, which is considered a Plenary sitting of the Senate, we are still able to have the issues of privilege and immunity in place. The precincts are specifically being destined to be in the County of Nairobi, which is our main sitting space in Nairobi. However, I am also sure that the Standing Orders will be versatile enough, so that even as we move within the counties during the Senate Mashinani engagements, we will be able to ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I was just about to crack a joke as I went there. We have seen incidences of people who are very informal, but they have specific suits that they have made, which are overall suits. They just put them on, get on to the set up, and get out. I think it is about presentation. In our case, it is indeed about formality. We already have a dress code that we use when we come to the Plenary. That is expected also within the virtual setting. For example, you cannot appear there with a ... view