Hon Martha Wangari

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5851 to 5860 of 6328.

• 20 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: When I was listening to Hon. Kigano, what was going through my mind is that, if you look at the sovereignty of the people and the supremacy of the Constitution, Article 81(b) does not even talk in inference. It is explicit. It says Parliament in representation must ensure that not more than two-thirds are of the same gender. It is a shame that we are only fighting for a mere 30 per cent. We are more than 50 per cent. Even the ones who have been elected will tell you, if they give you a story of their lives, how ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: What equity means is that, if Hon. Maanzo is six feet tall and I am five feet tall and we are going to watch a match in Kasarani and there is only one crate that is available, the person to get that one available crate is the shorter one. Not the taller one. It means exactly that – you are given ago or space to reach where others have reached. We are talking seven per cent, 23 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Members out of 290. Right now, this formula has been amended. We have agreed clearly that we will not do affirmative action on affirmative action seats. If you sit on the 47, we minus them from what we require. If you sit on the 23 that we occupy, we minus them. The burden is not as much. It is 21 Members to comply. On that 21, it is very critical to put it here that it is not static. If more women are elected and we elect 50 next time, the numbers to top up will go down. I know ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The reason you will hear the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives say “finally”, it is because I tried to rise on a point of order earlier. I think the Vice Chair of the Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives has already outlined a bit of it because when the concern was raised by Hon. Maanzo, it was unfortunately treated as a rumor and it was also treated as a personal attack by the Leader of the Majority Party. I sit in the Committee on Delegated Legislation and we had ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was not in any way trying to challenge the decision and the direction given by the Speaker, I was just taking up from what the Aldai Member of Parliament spoke about a few minutes ago in terms of the roles of the Committees in this House. We do not act on our own, every Committee sits on behalf of this House. It is a subset of this Parliament. So, when a Vice Chair now says the same thing, then it sends the question in terms of the ownership of this Bill. If the ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: impact member is quite mischievous. In fact, what we should look at is how to deal with the mischief in terms of sneaking it through this omnibus kind of amendments. No. 4 says a resolution of the annual general meeting of a cooperative society shall be subject to the approval of the Cabinet Secretary. We are taking the self-regulation that was given to societies and cooperatives back to the Government. I do not agree. I think it is excess supervision, it is meddling and I think the introduction of the special impact member is actually a plot to overtake and ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Section 19 says that the social impact member shall only vote on resolution relating to the special fund, the investment committee, the special fund trustee and the matters accidental thereto. It may look like it is an easy thing when you say it is an exception, but these are the main issues in a SACCO. A member just comes in, he or she does not subscribe, does not pay any subscription but he or she is allowed to take serious issues and vote as opposed to the original members of a SACCO. No. 3 says the Members of the society, ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: If you look at page 429 on the social impact member, they say the special fund investment policy means the policy formulated by the investment committee to govern investments from the special fund. The special trustee means that the trustee is constituted under Section 47. The details may look like easy amendment but the devil is in the details. This will be a take-over of the SACCOs. Part II of the special funds says that there shall be paid into the special fund monies received from social impact members. Do we even question the source of these monies? As much ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support this Report of the Sixth Ordinary Session of the Fourth Pan-African Parliament. I take this chance to congratulate our Members who were effectively sworn in. This Report could not have come at a better time. When you read it, you will find the issues it addresses are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) view