Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion on accelerating the implementation of SDGs as articulated by Sen. Mumma. I thank and congratulate her for a well-articulated Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when Sen. Mumma was explaining that, she mentioned two points that I think need to continue to be emphasised. This is about the implementation roadmap; a measuring implementation. The biggest problem that we have in many of the laws that we have ratified as a country is the fact that we ratify and keep them safely in drawers and implementation becomes ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for cutting it short. I was worried that they might take longer. They should have been in the House at the beginning, so that they are given a chance to make their apologies to one another. When Sen. Mumma was making her presentation, she emphasized the need of having a measure of implementation because sometimes most of the ratified laws or agreements that are international in nature get lost. I am happy that she has picked that and pointed out the relevant Ministry that should work with the Council of Governors (CoG). This is ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also need protection from colleagues who are interfering with you. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the areas emphasised by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were products of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that failed. Most of the countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa did not meet MDGs, hence the transition to the SDGs which are still keeping us on toes. It is important that the Government looks at how we can implement them. It is also important for the Senate because of the Oversight Fund. We need to ask ourselves questions. Now that we have the Oversight Fund, what exactly are we going to do and what will we oversight? The electronic ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: That could form a major part of the agenda because we can look at the various sectors and have our committees get to serious business. They should go to the ground and establish how we can move our people out of poverty. Poverty has been with us for far too long. We should not be having anyone below the poverty line in this country. That is something that should have been solved in the 50 years since our Independence, but we are still faced with that. The country now has an opportunity because we have devolved funds. We have the ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: At that time, the focus on poverty eradication was very high. It looks like we have gone back and we are not ensuring there is food for the needy corners of this country. We have the producing counties and we have counties that have the ability to produce more. It is worse now with climate change. So, the distribution of food should eliminate this thing called poverty, hunger in particular, in this country. We have people who live in slums. What programmes do our counties have? What do our governors have? They have the money that we have voted, so ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Food is a right in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, to the extent that a child has a right not only to good, but also nutritious food. How are we taking care of that? Children who are in school in nomadic areas are also suffering, which is why we are having a lot of hunger. We have hunger because nobody is paying attention to them. Earlier in the morning, we discussed about Cabinet Secretaries not coming. One of the key areas that we had wanted, and a Question has come to this House twice on, is how children ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: This is a very important Motion and I support it. We must have a way of measuring. I think it has landed in the right place. The Senate should also have its own programme that will enable Senators to go out and measure progress as far as implementation is concerned. Most of these are issues that have been devolved. We must start thinking about how we can reduce and completely eliminate hunger. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are talking about the elimination of hunger. If we do not start measuring where we are now and where we should be in the ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: I think this is for us and I thank Sen. Mumma for giving us. This is an opportunity for Senators to be able to implement what we should have implemented. More so, when we come to deal with the oversight fund, let us use it very carefully to ensure that everybody in the country benefits from the Senators as far implementation of Section 4 is concerned. I really look forward to Senators working with implementing agencies to come up with that roadmap. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Sometimes we give people an assignment and they take one year that you can develop in a shorter time. We hope that, for the purposes of implementing this Motion, she will be able to work with the relevant Ministry and the Council of Governors (CoG), which is within our own docket as the Senate to make sure that we implement it. Its implementation will ensure that our people benefit from no poverty, zero hunger, proper health and ensuring healthy lives in this country, quality education and all those others, including one that I really treasure, at No.10, which is reducing ... view