Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to this. I first thank the Chair of the Committee of Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights for giving us a very comprehensive report. They are creating room for us to do a presentation, and have assured us that there will be a presentation that will be heard and added to the BBI Report. I think that is the bottom line of this, and we are very happy about it. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Secondly, I agree with Members who have said that we need a strengthened Senate that does oversight in reality because our job is oversight, legislation and representation. It would be very sad that when we release 35 per cent of the revenue of this country to the counties, oversight goes down. We must bring the county executive to account and ensure that when they are given that money, we see the impact on the ground. As Senators, we must think of how we can do a proper oversight. For that, I support that the Oversight Fund must feature in the ... view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: In fact, Madam Temporary Speaker, I am surprised that we are debating about the representation of women and men in this House. That is not the issue. We need to add The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: value. It is value for us to have women and men. Why am I saying so? I am saying that because we are representing the same country that the National Assembly is representing. It is the same country; the same counties have constituencies and if we are going to take this just by the quarter, if we use the quarter that, we are going to take more than 30 per cent of the money, then the representation should be more than 30 per cent. Having 94 Members is the best thing that can ever happen to us. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: I want also to disabuse the fact that it was not in the document. I wish Sen. Wetangula was here. This is because I would have told him that we presented it. I was in a committee of women that presented that. We said that we really need to have Senators Vote. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is until you are stopped like Sen. Shiyonga was saying. It is until you are stopped like Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Dr.) Milgo were stopped from voting that you realize that the 16 nominated women Senators are doing very little. They are at ... view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support the Motion in the amended format. I support because I think this COVID-19 pandemic seems to be going up instead of going down. We had reached a situation where we thought things were coming down. However, as we are talking, the number of infected persons is increasing in the country. We cannot be safe as a Senate because we interact with our constituents. We interact with other members of the public. I do support that we take one day in a week so that we reduce the number of days that we are ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues, first of all, in congratulating ourselves for taking the walk to the High Court. Some of us had never walked across Uhuru Highway, but we did because of your leadership. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: I also congratulate the team that led to this very successful judgement. I thank Sen. Orengo, who was the leader of the team, Sen. Omogeni, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., and all those who contributed in one way or the other, because this is a landmark ruling. This is not just for the Senate; it is for the country. It is putting things right so that there is order in the nation. When Article 110 (3) was articulated, it was not meant to undermine anybody, or to create competition between one Speaker and the other. It was supposed to put order ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Senator. Sen. Shiyonga, kindly proceed. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to express my appreciation to the wonderful Committee that has done a great job over these few months, that is, the Ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya. I congratulate the Committee for a job well done. This is a Committee that has highlighted a number of issues, making the COVID-19 situation an opportunity for us to analyze the state of the health sector in this country. view