Cecily Mbarire

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• 20 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, we are also protecting children who are 18 years and below from getting married when they are still defined as children. I am happy to hear the Member from Narok support this because we know that it is a real issue in many communities in Kenya. We are having children as young as 9 or 12 years old getting married. Now we can protect them through this law. view
• 20 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I am happy that we are finally consolidating all these legal statutes that have been holding different laws concerning marriage. Now, we can have one statute that can be followed by everybody; one that is more understood based on our current economic, social and cultural situation and one that recognizes that we are an African country that has certain realities like polygamy. That is very important. view
• 20 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I pray that with this law we will be able to protect marriages. We will also be able to protect the people in these marriages, whether women or men. We will also protect the children that are conceived in these marriages. I would like to urge this Parliament to pass this Bill as soon as possible so that we can protect our families and country. I believe that this is a great day for all those who are in marriage unions and all those that intend to get into marriage unions like my sister from Kuria, so that all of ... view
• 20 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.44(2)(c) I wish to request a Statement from the Chairperson of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology regarding the failure of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to employ teachers in Embu County since 1997. Hon. Deputy Speaker, between 1997 and 2007 no teachers were employed in Embu County, yet TSC continued to employ teachers in other counties. Between 2007 and 2012 only 33 teachers were employed. In 2013 only 22 have been employed. This has led to massive unemployment among teacher graduates and they are unable to get employment from outside the ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: (i) the number of graduate teachers in Embu County who are currently unemployed in order of their year of completion; and view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: (ii) the steps the TSC and the Ministry of Education are taking to clear the employment backlog in the county. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I wish to state that I have a concern because I also did seek another Ministerial Statement from the same Committee on 29th of October. It was due for response on 5th November, 2013, and up to now I have not received any feedback. I am worried that this very important issue that I have raised, and which is urgent, might take a similar time. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want, from the outset, to say that I strongly support the creation of the Uwezo Fund. I also support the Regulations that have been brought before us, obviously with a few amendments. The purpose for which we create Uwezo Fund is to enable youth and women in the country to access credit - and cheap credit for that matter - with less bureaucracy. For the last five or more years that we have had WEDF and YEDF, it is not right for us ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Therefore, there is need to ensure that the training will also include serious entrepreneurial skills, so that they can identify income generating activities that they can engage in and that will earn them profits so that they can then pay back the loans. I also want to say that it is one thing to give money to the youth and women across the country to start various income generating activities, but it is another to create market linkages for the products that they will produce. Many times, you find that we have everybody doing poultry, rabit keeping, dairy farming and ... view