Joyce was born in abject poverty. In 2012, she suspended her PhD studies to concentrate. In 1985-1996 she participated in the translation of the bible to Turkana language. Previously, Joyce worked with the United Nations Children and Oxfam Kenya and was actively involved with the community. She puts education empowerment on top of her list in her quest to transform Turkana County. She also believes that without security, there cannot be any development and therefore has been very vocal on issues of security in her parliamentary debates.
8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this Motion. I will do that briefly because the Leader of the Majority The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly:
Party has done a good job. He has gone into details of the 17 Acts that this law is amending. We have spent a whole year working on this because it was extensive. We did wide consultations and got memorandums from 35 stakeholders. We had many organisations represented including the Council of Governors, the Ministry of Health, the Nurses Union, the Kenya Medical Social Workers Association, the Health Care Federation and many others. They were over 22. In total, 35 stakeholders participated. We have taken exactly one year since we began working on this Bill. Among the key things that ...
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13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
(Turkana (CWR), JP): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to support this amendment, which is very good for ease of work and efficiency because committees will handle specific tasks in detail.
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6 May 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I am present. I, Hon. Joyce Akai Emanikor, on behalf of the great county of Turkana and the people of Turkana, I vote no.
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9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The great people of Turkana County cannot be left behind in celebrating this extraordinary inordinate achievement. I wish to congratulate you on this. My colleagues have poured many accolades and I do not want to repeat that. However, what really mesmerises and fascinates me about you is your mastery of the law; both Kenyan and international, your neutrality, objectivity and impartiality in handling political issues and even here in the House and most importantly your
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9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
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9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
humility. Some of us are following in your footsteps in learning some of these values. Thank you and may God bless you.
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3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly:
(Turkana CW), JP): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, because we are talking of the African Continent, I would like to congratulate Hon. Dennitah Ghati for her election as the African Representative to the Commonwealth to represent people with disabilities. Back to the Motion, I support the ratification of the Sixth African Charter, which is on democracy, elections and good governance. Thirteen years down the line, it is long overdue. Kenya already signed, but we need to ratify it as Parliament. I will be very brief because most of the issues I wanted to touch on have ...
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26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at the outset, I wish to support the Report. Since I am a Member of the Committee, I will not go into the detailed recommendations because that has already been articulated by my Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson. When we were investigating the aspects of accountability, austerity and compliance of KEMSA with the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, we realised that they failed that exam because they told us that they did the procurement using the reverse procurement method or the retrospective method where they just called suppliers to bring ...
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26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly:
of the pain that we saw these frontline workers facing. We know leaders all over the world have been crying. Even Jesus cried. I know that even Prophet Mohamed – Peace be upon him – also cried severally because of the pain that his people went through. The Exchequer also delayed with the funds, especially the funds that were meant for the counties. When we went out to the counties, we realised that most of the monies had not been spent because it got there towards the end of the financial year. The other thing is that the Kshs500 million ...
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