Dennitah Ghati

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Entries 581 to 590 of 715.

• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute. From the outset, I want to say that I support the list. I do so with a lot of hope that for once we are seeing a situation where in the history of this country we are not only looking at women as constituting only one-third. We are moving in the right direction because we are moving towards meeting the half-half requirement. When I look at this list I realize that it basically adheres to the issue of gender which is a very serious constitutional requirement. That is why I want ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I have a reservation. When we are talking about the huge wage bill that this country is grappling with and we still constitute commissions that have eight or nine members, I think we are not reading from the same script. I have an issue. While I have no big problem with Francis ole Kaparo, he is a man I respect. He has been a speaker for the last over 15 years. He has been a Minister before I was born and we are talking of empowering the young people yet when I look at the age of this ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I want to thank hon. Members who have chosen the eight members out of the 15 to be listed. I want to urge the President that in the same thread the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has lived within the half/half. When he is nominating these people, he should look at the issue of half/half so that out of the nine members that the President of this country is going to pick, we have, at least, four as women and four men and they can chose their leader or chair. I believe that those who are going to ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Yes hon. Speaker. Thank you very much. I want to correct the Member for Rarieda. This is the current IEBC Vice-Chair. Yes, she is from Migori. She was born in Migori County. That is the same Commission we want to disband. She is from my community, which is Kuria. One of the problems that we make in this House is that when we are talking about counties that are cosmopolitan--- Look at counties like Migori where I come from. You tend to think that we are in Nyanza. We have the Kisii Nyanza, Kuria Nyanza and Luo Nyanza. When we ... view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to talk about this topic. We know very well that sanitary pads keep girls in school. We also know from research the number of days girls spend out of school for lack of such an important commodity which should be a basic necessity for those girls. view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I am also one of the people who are shocked. I have never heard that there are schools in Migori - which is my county - where girls get sanitary pads to keep them in school. I have tried to ask this question to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. I think the criteria and procedure for accessing sanitary pads is not clear. So, it depends on who you know and how well you are connected to get those necessary commodities to our various schools. view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I would like to know from the region of Nyanza and especially Migori County, how many schools have benefited. What is not clear is the criteria and I want the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology to try and find out for us. Maybe, we should even be publicizing the schools that receive those sanitary pads when we are talking about districts. From research, we know very well that there are poorer schools in this country that even if girls get sanitary pads, there are other commodities that go with those items. For example, we have a pant. So, ... view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I beg to ask that question. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know, with all due respect, that this is a very critical Motion and I was just concerned about the quorum in this House to be able to discuss this. view