Prof. Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support this Motion. Allow me thank the Member for Kimilili, Hon. Didmus Barasa, for this very important Motion. I am speaking as an accessibility ambassador for PWDs. I speak also on behalf of people with disabilities who are usually the first culprits when it comes to the issue of transport. Transport continues to be a big mess and a challenge for Kenyans especially PWDs. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for a long time, when PWDs want to get into a bus or a train such as is the current situation at the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), it has completely not factored in the concerns of PWDs. This is a Motion that has come at the right time. Last week in this House, I brought my statement during the Zero Hour to discuss the challenges that PWDs face when it comes to accessing transport and especially on the concerns of PWDs in the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) that this country is about to launch. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The issue of transport in this country is a Government project and it is the responsibility of the Government to ensure that its people access transport with a lot of dignity. The issue of accessibility especially for PWDs in all other sectors is something that is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and everywhere. Accessibility is something that is seriously enshrined there. It is therefore, the responsibility of this country to ensure that PWDs access places with the dignity they deserve. Our transport sector is mostly managed by ... view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: and the Orokise SACCO and I know many others that seem like they are organised to control transport in this country. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: You will realise that sometimes especially during the festive seasons, touts, conductors and drivers just wake up one morning and set the fares depending on how they slept, how they woke up and whether it is raining or not. The fares are not regulated. They decide that from Athi River to Nairobi, they will charge Kshs200 and in the evening they will charge Kshs100 or Kshs500. That is wrong. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I have had the opportunity of living out of this country. I have lived in the New York City where I have studied and worked for quite some time. You realise that countries such as the USA have organised their own systems so well that members have the metro cards that we used to have here in this country. Those cards are what controls the transport and fares of those developed nations. In this country for, example, when PWDs want to travel from Nairobi to Athi River, they are at the mercy of the driver or the conductor. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: A PWD is not even taken in because they have a wheelchair and they want to access the bus, but the driver feels they are wasting his time. So, he will leave them on their wheelchairs and proceed because he wants to make money. Even as we discuss how we regulate fares, we need to capacity build the touts, conductors and drivers on how they need to handle Kenyans when it comes to accessibility to the transport system. The BRT system is coming to this country. How is the BRT concerned about parking and how Kenyans are going to be ... view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: We need to ensure that awareness is created amongst our people because we want to sanitise the players in the transport sector to ensure that matatus are not hiking fares. We have laws and they have to be enforced. Basically, this is a Motion that has the best interest of Kenyans. It is a Motion that seeks to cushion Kenyans from all these harassments. We want to see that the workers in this sector are capacity built. It is not just about the fares since anyone can afford them. It is about the treatment. How can we sanitise the transport ... view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: For me, this is a very important Motion. It speaks for my people, persons with disabilities and especially the challenges they encounter in the transport sector. So, allow me to thank the Member for bringing this Motion. I will quickly say that as we discuss this, we also need to look at how we can create designated drop-off points. How can Kenyans know the pick-up points? These should be areas which are clearly marked, showing where people are picked and dropped and where the buses will pass. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: There are so many things that need to be done to bring sanity to the transport sector in this country. This is a rare opportunity which Hon. Members seated here should support so that for once, we can ensure that in the transport sector, accessibility for persons living with disabilities and Kenyans is guaranteed and handled with the dignity it deserves. view