Esther Murugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (b) It is not a Government initiative but an initiative of like-minded women from different spheres of life, I being one of them. It came into being about three months ago. As a self-help group project, it does not require Cabinet approval. There are other view
• 20 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as far as I am concerned, this initiative is three months old. I may have talked about it three years ago, but it actually came into force three months ago. As a woman, I am entitled to form a woman’s initiative. I do not think that there are any restrictions to that, whether I am a Minister, Prime Minister or President of this country. I am a woman. I am entitled to do so. view
• 20 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, conflict of interest with who and what? view
• 20 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya has 18.9 million women. Maendeleo ya Wanawake has a registration of four million, leaving out 14 million women. The NCWK is a coalition of women organizations. So, as far as I am concerned, we are all working together for the agenda of all women. That is what the Women of Kenya Initiative (WOKI) is doing. This WOKI does not intend to get any money from the Government. It will use its own initiative. But if the Government feels that it can give them money, so be it. If I have a good proposal and I go ... view
• 20 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have not. view
• 19 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a)The Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF) targets all Kenyan women as individual, registered groups or companies owned by women. The Fund uses two distribution channels to reach the clientele, namely, the Constituency Women Enterprise Scheme, through the constituency, and each constituency has Kshs1 million, and also through the financial beneficiaries, which are twelve micro-financiers. (b) The financial intermediaries are free to lend money to individual groups or companies owned by women. The various women groups were funded as follows: Nairobi, 152 groups, Kshs7 million; Coast Province, 489 groups; Eastern Province, 615 groups; ... view
• 19 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not think that the Minister can create banks where they are not. It is up to wananchi of the area and the banks to feel compelled to take banks to those areas. view
• 19 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also the duty of the Members of Parliament to create SACCOs in their relevant areas if they want the women to access that money but not the Minister to create banks in those places. view
• 19 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the responsibility of the Ministry is to create awareness that this money is there. In the region that I come from we have a saying, and with all due respect to women, that you can take the cow to the river but you cannot force it to drink. That is what we are doing. view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mine is very brief. First, I want to commend the Minister and state that a budget of Kshs8 billion for the whole of Kenya is too little. The reason why I am saying that is because there is no substitute for water. When you look at the statistics in three provinces in Kenya, over 6.6 per cent of the people spend, at least, over one hour looking for water – that is the Rift Valley, North Eastern and Eastern provinces. That population is made up of women and girls. So, if we should ... view