Gladys Wanga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to speak on the issue of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). About two months ago, a girl of 13 years in Homa Bay was attacked as she was going to bathroom. She was raped by several men. A bottle was put in her private part and eyes gorged out. We had to rush her to Nairobi Women’s Hospital for treatment. Of course, that girl’s life has been destroyed because she was totally and hugely traumatised. These are incidents that happen in our country every day. Just yesterday we heard of case in Kisumu County where ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, the DCI and DPP are doing a great job. I hope that Mr. Mutyambai will support the fight against corruption. We will support our officers in this fight against corruption. We will protect them from possible politicisation of the same. He has sterling officers to support him. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Bill. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, we had a chance to go through this Bill. We have agonised since the beginning of the year when we reduced the budgetary allocation to the NYS as a Committee. This was because of the wanton wastage which was going on there. It could not have continued that way. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: What we realised after the reduction is that some of the money that we took away belonged to the young people. Just like Members have said, their cohorts and women from their constituencies who were cooks have not received payment up to-date. The urgency for this Bill is because we need to sort out what was happening at the NYS. So, we can quickly proceed to first of all appropriate money and move to make payments to the cohorts who have not been paid. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: At the same time, we also need to work on a formula of having fairness in distribution of cohorts in NYS programmes. One of the issues which affected the cohort system when it came up was that it was used as a political tool. In fact, I had the privilege to serve in the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare in the last Parliament and I can remember the Cabinet Secretary then being asked about the cohorts, the constituencies they were from and how they were chosen. She replied that when the President asked for cohorts to be brought, ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: One of the issues this Bill seeks to sort out is having cohorts from any constituency whether Luanda or Homa Bay Town, whether you support the Government of the day or not. What we want to deal with here is systems and structures within the NYS, so that it is no longer a tool for politics and a place where people go to get money in sacks and bags like we saw with Kabura and some of the cases that have remained unsolved to-date. Something else we have seen with the NYS scandals, and it is very disheartening, is that ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: making. Right now, the youth who joined the NYS have undergone paramilitary training, have graduated and are neither here nor there. When the KDF wants to recruit, they go back to the villages and ask the youth to run during interview. What if we had a fair balanced system of our youth who join the NYS, that after going through paramilitary training, most of the numbers needed by the KDF, the Kenya Police, the Kenya Forest Service, the Kenya Coast Guard Services and the Kenya Prisons Service are got first hand from the NYS? That is one of the key ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: We are also looking at the council and we hope with its creation, there will be close monitoring of the functioning of the NYS. One of the key things provided in this Bill as well is the commercialisation of the NYS. If you look at Clause 8 of the Bill, it says that the NYS is allowed to receive funds and invest any surplus or profit for performance of its functions. We are looking at the commercialisation of the NYS. The council has a very daunting task to see that none of the resources from this commercialisation go to waste. ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: One of the issues raised by one Member, which I know the Chair will finally reply to, is the issue of deploying our NYS recruits to the KDF to take part in war. This is one of the issues that were raised by the Committee. Somebody who has gone through paramilitary training is taken to Somalia, for example, to fight. One of the key issues that need to be clear is that when we take the NYS recruits, they should go through some training in weaponry before they head out. Also, when they go, it should not be for full ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Therefore, these are some of the issues which need to be clarified. The number of young people who join the NYS is a critical issue. If you recruit so many young people like we did with the last couple of cohorts who joined, it creates a problem. For example, they took 21,000 youths. Every year, 23,000 join and are all taken through paramilitary training. Some of them are unable to proceed and finish their vocational training while many of them are unable to proceed and go back to the villages. view