Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: I consistently think that even when we have had issues that are of pecuniary interest, we have seen the Judiciary being quite objective. I may have an issue about the way corruption has gone into conflict resolution, but it is a phenomenon that is everywhere. We are just in a bandit economy. We are People who are rent-seeking everywhere. It is a problem of ourselves. There was a Judge who was saying that every Judge has a price. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: The point is that our role, as Parliament, is to ensure that we clean up the system. This also speaks to the fact that we have really abrogated ourselves; in fact it is a derogation of the Constitution. The power of the purse vests with Parliament, but it has been taken away and it has been misused by the Executive. Under Articles 110 and 114 of the Constitution, the national Treasury is supposed to be independent of the national Government. It is not supposed to be an appendage of the national Government. That is where the problem is; the combination ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We are here, as an arm of Government. Our role is to oversight and ensure that there is parity in whatever decisions that are made for the benefit of Kenyans. The moment I am listening to my good brother and friend, Sen. Kang‟ata, invoking the name of the President in this dispute. Is he really in order to attribute the budget cuts to the person of the President, as to occasion the thinking that the President has a personal vendetta on the Judiciary? Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you hear Sen. Kang‟ata arguing ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to move that the Registration of Persons (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 14 of 2019) be read a Second Time. The aim of this Bill is to amend the Registration of Persons Act and the Births and Deaths Registration Act in order to make provisions for the registration of intersex persons. Intersex persons can be defined as persons born with sex characteristics including genitals, gonads, and chromosomes that do not fit the typical binary notions of male or female bodies. Traditionally, human beings have been broadly categorized as either male or female based on reproductive ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: ridicule and inadequate or denial of medical attention. The intersex persons face these challenges right from birth to adulthood. Whereas the Constitution provides for protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of all Kenyans, including the intersex persons, Kenya has not put in place policies or adequate legal framework on intersex persons. There is, therefore, an urgent need to address their plight. This observation was made by the High Court in the case of Baby „A‟ suing through Mother „EA‟ and another vs the Attorney-General and six others; the Petition No. 266 of the year 2013. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: of the word „sex‟ will be that proposed under the Registration of Persons Act under this Clause to include intersex people. This Bill, therefore, proposes to put in place a legal framework, registration of persons and issuance of births and certificates and identity cards and it will go a long way in alleviating some of challenges that persons who are intersex experience in their day to day activities as citizens of this Republic. Without a birth certificate or an identity card, it is nearly impossible to be enrolled in formal education system in this country. One cannot get a Sim ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mombasa to come up with the report, but before that we had a public hearing where the intersex persons could tell their own story. While people were wondering if these people do exist, the moment they appeared before the Committee, there was a transformation. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Eventually, we adjourned sine die because the Eleventh Parliament came and passed. It was good because it was out of this action in 2017 that the Attorney-General constituted a task force to look at these matters because of the political push. We also took the matter to the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC). I am afraid to say that at that point, the NGEC was not very useful. For me, it was very clear that this was not an issue of disability rather the issue of gender. To be more precise, it was the issue of sex. Eventually, we ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: These are people who have been on the struggle for the emancipation of Kenya and people, depending on what rights we are looking at. We know for sure that human rights are inalienable, interdependent and indivisible. That is to mean that if one right is affected, it affects another. If you do not have the right because of your status and you are denied that same right, it means I will be denied and another person too. I am very glad to say that we have made progress since that time. We were able to organize conversations with various institutions. ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, on the 26th October, 2016, Kenya was able to celebrate, for the first time, the Intersex Persons Remembrance Day, which is a global day. The intersex people were able to come to Parliament and present some Public Petition, which I was able to receive. However, here we are, we were able to bring together intersex people to form the Intersex Persons Society of Kenya (IPSK) because we knew we could not be the advocates, they also needed to be safe advocates to tell their stories as they are. You can imagine when we lodged the papers at ... view