Fatuma credits her success to her grandmother who took her to school after her parents separated. She chose to study Agriculture as she believes that only agriculture could alleviate poverty in food insecure Wajir County. Her work at UN Women exposed her to the challenges women face daily, physically and mentally. In 2003 she was appointed a commissioner to the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights (KNCHR) and spearheaded the release of a report faulting the government’s IDP’s resettlement exercise (Operation Rudi Nyumbani). Fatuma is passionate about girl child education and seeks to ensure none of the girls in Wajir lacks education due to financial constraints.
17 Dec 2015 in National Assembly:
many projects, especially the national ones. He did not consider that, sometimes, there is even the delay of payment of county government expenses and expenditure. As Members of Parliament, we are all aware that this country is unable to generate sufficient revenue to cater for different services and development.
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17 Dec 2015 in National Assembly:
I feel that the President did not care about this country in appointing a huge number of PSs. One PS might earn a salary of Kshs1million. The other thing that I want to say is that we are not conveyor belts. We should reject some of these appointments so that we save this country the agony of paying unnecessary officials. I was informed recently that one of the ministries with three new PSs has one directorate which is vocational training. It has been devolved. It will deal with the village polytechnics. That PS will be very idle and helpless to ...
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17 Dec 2015 in National Assembly:
About 80 per cent of these appointees are not from the public service. They are not mainstream civil servants who have grown into the cadre and should have been appointed. This will demotivate most of the able and ---
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 5 be amended- (i) in sub-clause (2)(a) by inserting the following words after the words “High Court of Kenya” “or a holder of a degree in social science” The purpose of my amendment is to expand access to justice for ordinary people. In addition, these small courts will ensure that there is access to justice for small cases. This is an area any professional can handle because of the experience required. This will ensure that some areas like northern Kenya or Turkana that may not have qualified lawyers to handle ...
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I appreciate all the opinions. However, 99 per cent of all lawyers in this country – the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee says there will be many more – are based in urban areas like Mombasa 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.
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
and Nairobi. It will be very unfortunate that some of the qualified social scientists, like people who have qualified to be agriculturalists, economists, finance experts and even doctors are not able to adjudicate in certain cases at a lower level. The unfortunate part for this country is that most lawyers defend their profession to keep off other professionals who are likely to move and provide the same services to the public.
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if you were not on the Chair, maybe you would have opposed this amendment. This country requires such professions. Highly developed countries have layman judges and magistrates in courts. This is a much lower court which will be handling small cases. A procedure is a basic thing to understand and apply. To say that it is only lawyers who can apply procedures, regulations, rules and the law is unfair to people who are able to interpret the law. Some Members of this House who do not belong to the legal profession might interpret the Constitution and ...
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
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17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly:
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