Gladys grew up in a political family. Her father the late John Nyasuna, was a councillor and chairperson of Kisumu County Council. Gladys emulated him and developed interest in politics at an early age. In 2003, when at Kenyatta University she became the first female to be elected as the Secretary General of the Student’s Union. After University she remained active in politics and engaged in ODM party politics while still working in LVCT Health. In her term of service, she seeks empowerment of women and youth and education for the girl child. In parliament, Gladys spearheaded the formation of the Information and Public Communication committee.
28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Yes, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This amendment is important because the issue of the lowest evaluated price only, when it applies particularly to some tenders results you with the wrong supplier if you just look at the lowest evaluated price.
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman.
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, would I be in order to request you to speak a bit slower?
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21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I would like to oppose the Motion and the Senate amendments. I would like to say, like many Members of this House, I am a great supporter of devolution. We would like devolution to work but what I am seeing---When I contributed to the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), I thanked you, the leadership of this House and the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I also thanked the leadership of the Senate as well. I reflected on where we had come from with the Division of Revenue Bill in the past years, and I said ...
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21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
we are dealing with is a concerted effort by the Senate to depict this House, the National Assembly, as a House that is anti-devolution. This is the perception we want the public to know that it is not the case, because in support of devolution, we allocated Senators, on the Floor of this House, Kshs1 billion to go and monitor devolution; we want them to go and see that it is working. That is in support of devolution. Hon. Speaker, when we say that we are adding money to Level 5 hospitals, when we debated the BPS, we made additional ...
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak to this Bill. I would like to support it in the strongest terms possible. I also thank hon. Millie Odhiambo for introducing such an important and timely Bill. She has intimated to me that three weeks ago, the court ruled that this Bill should be fast-tracked by this House. Therefore, it is in very good order that we are discussing it. The sooner we dispose of it, the better. Last weekend, I went home to bury my grandmother. She had only one child. Because she had one ...
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak to this Bill. I would like to support it in the strongest terms possible. I also thank hon. Millie Odhiambo for introducing such an important and timely Bill. She has intimated to me that three weeks ago, the court ruled that this Bill should be fast-tracked by this House. Therefore, it is in very good order that we are discussing it. The sooner we dispose of it, the better. Last weekend, I went home to bury my grandmother. She had only one child. Because she had one ...
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
move on with technology to see how we can give every woman who wants to have a child, the opportunity to do so. I listened with great interest to my colleagues, hon. Millie and hon. Joyce Lay, give their personal experiences in this matter. When I got married, the first and the second years passed and when people came to visit me, they were making prayers, asking God to hasten the process of children coming. Society expects that when women get married, they should have children. Sometimes, this matter is of great distress for many women who cannot get children ...
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
move on with technology to see how we can give every woman who wants to have a child, the opportunity to do so. I listened with great interest to my colleagues, hon. Millie and hon. Joyce Lay, give their personal experiences in this matter. When I got married, the first and the second years passed and when people came to visit me, they were making prayers, asking God to hasten the process of children coming. Society expects that when women get married, they should have children. Sometimes, this matter is of great distress for many women who cannot get children ...
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15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Departmental Committee on Health must understand that it is not little work for a Private Member to develop a Bill to this extent. Therefore, they cannot push it aside and tell us to wait for a Health Bill whose whereabouts we do not know. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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