Mary Emaase Otuch

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman for the opportunity. I want to speak as a member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. Before we made the decisions we made, we consulted the stakeholders. We represent people and one of our major responsibilities is legislation. The decisions that we made are what we believed as a committee, after consultation, are good for this country. I want to support the position of our Chair that the recommendations by His Excellency the President are not good. I belong to the Jubilee Coalition. The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade ... view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. As leaders, we must accept to be accountable and responsible. I support that clause; I support the position by the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party and the Deputy Hon. Leader of the Minority Party. We need to have an administrator. This is an equivalent of an ombudsman that exists in all other institutions. We need to have an office that addresses grievances that--- view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. This Bill speaks to the administration and reorganisation of High Courts. It is a very important Bill in the sense that for any institution to succeed, it is not only about the leadership, but there has got to be supporting structures, systems and policy. This Bill is important because it brings that much needed order. It assigns responsibility that a High Court The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: shall be headed by the presiding judge, that there shall be judges and a Deputy Registrar who will be in charge of administration. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will randomly contribute to a number of clauses in the Bill. I will start with Clause 26 which speaks to dispute resolution. This will help decongest courts and prisons. Some of the issues are so petty; they are issues that can be resolved outside the court. By providing the alternative option in dispute resolution, I am sure most of the cases will be solved outside court and we will release Kenyan citizens to ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I would also like to speak on the issue of the welfare of judges. Having worked there before, I know this is a category of people who work so hard. These are learned friends who work so hard; I have seen judges leave office at 9.00 p.m. and beyond. It is the only institution where I have seen judges carrying briefcases that do not carry money but big volumes they have to peruse throughout the night to write judgments. The proposal that the Chief Justice can establish committees to look into issues of working conditions, peer review, promotion and improvement ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: into consideration persons with disabilities. Therefore, sign language and Braille are recommended in a proposal in this Bill. As I conclude, Clause 31 says that adequate resources must be allocated for effective discharge of court functions. At this point, I would like to tell this House that in future I hope it will give the Judiciary sufficient funding. It will be unfair to victimise an institution by virtue of institutional differences; just because we do not agree with the Judiciary on one issue or another we victimise them by reducing their budget. This law is very clear. We want justice ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I wish to join my colleagues and congratulate my friend Hon. Cecilia for this Bill which is very important for the future of this nation. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: This is an area that has been forgotten. I am surprised listening to the engineers in the House. I wonder whether they are sincere with their sentiments. If the commitment and the goodwill was there to accommodate the technologists and the technicians, they would not have removed the only clause that was attempting to accommodate the technologists and the technicians in the Engineering Act of 2012. I, therefore, want to congratulate Hon. Cecilia for addressing that lacuna because as we are all aware, when you open a newspaper, you will read that a house has collapsed somewhere. We have quacks ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Secondly, this country is growing. We must agree it is not easy to grow a nation to a developed and a prosperous one. It takes ages to grow a nation. For those nations that have developed, they have had to develop science and technology. When we look at nations like Switzerland and Germany, you will find that 40 to 70 per cent of their post high school degrees are in the technical field. So, as we embark on building the TVETs and technical universities, it is important that we give Kenyans confidence. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: We were sharing with the principal of Technical University and what came out is, they are not even able to get sufficient applicants for the establishment that they have been given as a university. There is a lot of negativity out there, yet we know today there are so many respectable, well compensated, upwardly mobile careers that our young people can engage in if only this profession can be recognized, given the legal standing that it requires, credibility and then Kenyans begin to believe in education. This is a very important Bill. view