Hon Martha Wangari

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join the Senate Minority Leader and my colleagues in condemning the despicable act. As I watched the young widow who has a very young son and been left by Mr. Wille Kimani, the young lawyer, all that was running through my mind was that all this could have been avoided. It is a pity this young son will grow up not knowing his father because of an incident that could have been avoided. I have no words to describe what the families of the three young men are going through. Looking at the scenario and ... view
• 5 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was earlier during Sen. Muthama’s contribution. view
• 30 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also join you in welcoming these young boys – no - girls from Kiambu County. I hope they will get--- view
• 30 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was just confirming whether it is a girls school. I am seeing many girls, but there are also boys. As a mother of such young children that are close to the age of the ones seated at the gallery, it is quite a good site. I hope they will pick things from this Senate and know that they can become anything they want to become. As the Vice Chairperson of the Kenya Women Senators, I welcome them to the Senate. The young girls should know that they can reach any limit and their dreams are valid. ... view
• 30 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to congratulate Sen. Gwendo for laying this Report to the Table of this House. I also thank the office of the Speaker for always facilitating women in this House to attend these meetings. I have not attended a Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians meeting but we have hosted them at Safaripark Hotel. The experience shared in such a meeting is not anything you can exchange for anything else. I want to thank you and your office for facilitating this. The issue of women in leadership is a wide and contentious issue. When President Obama said that if ... view
• 30 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish to join my colleagues in congratulating the Speaker for that ruling. It is a ruling that we have been eagerly waiting for. In fact, we were hoping that it would come yesterday. I have sat in the CPAIC since its inception and seen what we have gone through. In fact, we have a backlog because the governors used to go to the courts to actually curtail our work. Being the law-abiding citizens that we are, we respected that. We were not able to invite them for about eight or nine months and that is ... view
• 30 Jun 2016 in Senate: seconded. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, yes. I rise pursuant to Standing order No.45(2)b to seek a statement from the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations regarding the case in Migori county where a form two student from Ulanda Girls’ High School was hit by a bullet fired by a prison warder on 27th May, 2016. In the Statement, the Chairperson should state:- (a) The circumstances under which the innocent girl was hit by the stray bullet. (b) The steps the Government has taken to serve justice to the innocent girl who now has a permanent disability. (c)The ... view
• 29 Jun 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is it in order for the Senator for Kakamega to mislead this House and country? If you want to do comparatives, then it has to be in percentages or ratios. You cannot just talk about schools without giving numbers. Is it in order for the Senator to make such a serious allegation, based on some figures that do not show the comparatives? view
• 28 Jun 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is it in order for the Senator of West Pokot County to mislead this House and, indeed, the country as whole that Sen. Sijeny is making this response as an opposition Senator when we know very clearly that we have elected chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of committees in this House? In fact, we have some chairs that come from the other side. Just to inform the Senator of West Pokot that we are all in Government. We are one arm on the Government. Is he in order to mislead the country? view