Florence Kajuju

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to congratulate the delegation from South Sudan. As you know, I deal with regional integration and I believe that their presence here helps to widen and deepen the integration process. As I go into the Bill before the House, I support it as it is. This is because several issues have been raised that are happening now without proper regulations as far as early childhood education is concerned. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my interest in this Bill is that there are clauses that are very important to us as parents and leaders in the ... view
• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I appreciate this Bill because under Article 53 of the Constitution, education is a basic right. Therefore, by devolving early childhood education to the county level, we will be providing early childhood education to more children. It matters a lot how a child is developed and brought up from the word go. This is because it helps us have a generation that is sensitive to many things and is responsive to the challenges of leadership in future. This Bill recognizes the roles of sponsors. We are aware that religious institutions such as the Catholic and Methodist ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today Thursday, 1st September 2016:- Report of the Select Committee on Regional Integration on its consideration of the East African Legislative Assembly Reports and Bills Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today Thursday, 1st September 2016:- Report of the Select Committee on Regional Integration on its consideration of the East African Legislative Assembly Reports and Bills Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Report that is up for adoption. I thank the three Members of the Committee who stood with the Meru County people and disagreed with the adoption of this Report. Except, I noticed Hon. Richard Onyonka, who had indicated his dissent, surprising came to this House today and supported the Report. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: My position is that I do not support this Report because there are very many issues which I presented personally to the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and they did not take any of them into account. I have looked at the Committee’s observations in their Report as far as this Defence Co-operation Agreement (DCA) is concerned. When I look at the Committee’s observation No.8, 9 and 10, they were terribly dismissive of the submissions that were made by other Members of the delegation and that we went to present the interests of the community as Meru representatives. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Observation No.8, if I may read, said:- “That the decision to ban miraa in the UK was made after an extensive consultation process and careful consideration and for the interest of the residents and the citizens of the UK.” The question that I beg to be answered is whose interest the Committee was looking at when they said that our interests were taken into account as the community that grows miraa . view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: This is a very painful process because I am the one who brought the initiative of a Motion seeking to form the Ad-hoc Committee on miraa . After that Committee was admitted by this House, it travelled to the UK seeking intervention for them to just allow us a grace period before they could ban miraa in their country, and we could put our House in order if they did not want us to export miraa to their country. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: We were dismissed. The British Governments Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) Report declared miraa was not a drug. The House of Commons said that miraa was just a stimulant. What did the British Government do? They proceeded to classify miraa as a drug, which means we could not sell miraa in their country. Some people in the UK do not consume miraa, but the Somali residents and Kenyans who live there consume miraa . But, their interests and those of the Meru people were not taken into account. They classified miraa as a drug. What that meant ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: in their country? They have not. I know the law and legal principals of equity. Equity demands that he who seeks equity must do equity. Equity in this sense would mean that if they are seeking equity from us as the Government of Kenya, they should be willing, ready and able to do equity especially to the Meru County people. It also says in equity that he who comes to equity must not come with dirty hands. They are coming to us to seek equity but with dirty hands. That is because they failed to listen to us when we ... view