Beatrice Kwamboka Makori

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of my family and Nairobians, I take this opportunity to condole with the family of the late President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. Today, I am here to celebrate him as others mourn. I did not get that time to meet him in person, but I remember meeting him as a girl guide in primary school. I marched for him and saluted him. I was an entertainer too, I used to dance for him during the mass choir. In this country, President Moi enjoyed his presidency to the fullest, nobody could have spoken ill ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to move that the Care and Protection of Child Parents Bill (Senate Bills No.11 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the principal objective of the Bill is to provide a legal framework for the care and protection of child parents within the counties. The framework is intended to ensure that an expectant child or a child parent may actualise their rights to basic education, and at the same time, ensure proper care of their children as enshrined in Article 53 of the Constitution. Currently, the existing ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: implementation. Further, the promotion of family-based alternative care as outlined in the National Guidelines for the Alternative Family Care of Children is still in the piloting stage, hence the need for this framework on the care and protection of child parents. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, although the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has reiterated the Government's intention to enforce the prohibition of registration of--- view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to move that the Care and Protection of Child Parents Bill (Senate Bills No.11 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me continue. Although the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has reiterated the Government’s intention to enforce the prohibition of registration of new charitable children’s institutions, the Bill seeks to provide a framework on taking care of pregnant child parents who may face rejection from the society and their own parents. Currently, the school re-entry policy that was passed in 1994 for pregnant girls and ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: (a) establishing programmes to ensure that expectant children and child parents have access to education services; (b) formulating and implementing county specific programmes for the integration of expectant children and child parents into society and institutions of basic education within the respective county; and, (c) establishing child care centres for child parents who intend to enrol back to school and who do not have access to support services for the care of their child. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, Part III of the Bill provides for the roles of national Government and county governments in the prevention of school dropouts by ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: unconditionally and be allowed to join at the level at which she is left prior to dropping out. Clause 13 of the Bill on readmission of a pregnant child into an institution and basic education provides that an institution of basic education shall not discriminate against a child who falls pregnant while in school or who is readmitted in school and shall put in place measures to ensure the reintegration of the child back into the school. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 15 of the Bill on the obligation of the institutions of the basic education provides that an institution ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: imposes an obligation on the national Government and county governments to put mechanisms in place and establish programmes to ensure that not only is this right realized in relation to child parents, but also ensure that the rising cases of child pregnancies and the dropping out of school by the child parents is curbed. In addition, Clause 23 of the Bill imposes an obligation on the county governments to establish care centres for child parents and sets out standards that a county government or any other person who intends to establish a care centre is required to meet. The Bill ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are many consequences of teenage pregnancy. They turn to prostitution because they want something to feed their babies and for them 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
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: to eat. Another consequence is illiteracy due to school dropouts. When they become pregnant, some principals of schools do not allow them to go back to the school. As a result, they drop out of schools. Poverty is as a result of lack of employment and skills. Suicide is rampant among youths. We have seen children committing suicide at the age of 11 to 18 years. They do so because of these challenges. There is no one to take good care of them. It is a high time the Ministry took charge and see what they can do to these ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in Senate: These girls face social stigma; they are discriminated when they mingle around with the other children. Kenya’s population is largely young. Persons aged 19 years accounts for more than half of the population, while those aged 15 years and below fall at 45 per cent of the country’s population according to the 2009 census. The consequence of pregnancy at such a young age in Kenya is not good. The girls usually dropout of the school to have a child or sometime attempt to procure unsafe abortion. view