Dennitah Ghati

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I support the nominees that have been presented to the House mainly because it is clear from the Report of the Committee that they have the requisite qualifications and are competent. I feel pleased because from the perspective of what has bedeviled Kenya, time and time again, and what has made a number of Kenyans feel… view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate your sentiments because what you provide as guidance is one of the reasons that as I support the nominees, I wanted Kenyans to begin developing a culture where we look at representation in a broader sense. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I support the nominees because of their competence and qualifications and most importantly for the sense of inclusivity that addresses the strong feeling that Kenyans tend to identify with when they seek to look for regional balance, which we have. I know that when young Kenyans see older persons appointed, they are a bit uncomfortable. It is important to develop a culture where young people do not see that they can only be represented when a person in a position is young and similarly that older people do not feel that they can only be represented only when they have ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support and thank the Committee for the Report. Thank you. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to support the appointments presented to us in the Report by the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I served in the Committee in the last Parliament. This is a job which the Committee has done very well. I am confident and happy that they have brought to us a list that is in line with our Constitution. Is the list representative of the country? Yes. Is the list the face of Kenya? Yes. Is the list gender sensitive? Yes. So, I thank the Committee for taking into ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Having five women as ambassadors out of 14 shows that we are getting into a situation women and Kenyans want to see. The spirit of our Constitution is very clear. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I take note of Amb. Jean Kamau who has been moved from Pretoria, South Africa to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Jean Kamau is known to me. We have interacted in Pretoria on several occasions especially on issues of international relations when I served in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I am for the second time seeing an ambassador representative especially from the area I come from, Amb. Daniel Wambura. Amb. Daniel Wambura who has been posted to Bujumbura, Burundi is known to me by virtue of coming from my village and community. He has been very instrumental and key in looking at issues of peace in Kuria area, where I come from. He has worked very well to accomplish a number of projects in my community including working with young university students by putting them together on cross-border relationships in our county that have issues. So, he is the ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Even as we move forward, we are getting into a situation where we should carry the face of Kenya. The issue of the youth in the country has arisen and it is high time, as we move forward, look at which jobs to give them. There are some jobs that require a lot of experience. I would not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: say that the youth do not qualify, but there are some jobs which may require some degree of preparedness. That tells us that we need to prepare our youth for these kind of appointments so that they move forward. On the issue of youth, in Kiswahili they say that ujana ni moshi. Ageing is a way of transition. Today, I may be young, but tomorrow, I will be old. What we need to do is to balance how we bring in the issue of youth. view