Michael Maling'a Mbito

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, However, despite this huge potential and for some strange reasons, the successive governments, all grappling with serious youth unemployment, have not nurtured performing arts and the film industry to make it an economic magic. A sound policy and legislation to rhyme the new dynamics in the industry is what we need. Madam Temporary Speaker, it must not be lost to us that Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, is the second largest employer in Nigeria and has helped to create millions of jobs for Nigerian youth. Kenya, with its robust population, can pick a few lessons from Nigeria ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 47(1) to make a Statement of general topic of concern, namely, implementing policies to protect children from harmful online content. The influence of the media to the psychosocial development of children is profound. Thus, it is important for stakeholders, including physicians to discuss with parents their children‟s exposure to media and provide guidance on age-appropriate use of all media including Television (TV), radio, music, video games and the internet. Madam Temporary Speaker, COVID-19 was declared as a global pandemic in March, 2020 and has both short term and far-reaching implications ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 47(1) to make a Statement of general topic of concern, namely, implementing policies to protect children from harmful online content. The influence of the media to the psychosocial development of children is profound. Thus, it is important for stakeholders, including physicians to discuss with parents their children‟s exposure to media and provide guidance on age-appropriate use of all media including Television (TV), radio, music, video games and the internet. Madam Temporary Speaker, COVID-19 was declared as a global pandemic in March, 2020 and has both short term and far-reaching implications ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: confinement, isolation and economic vulnerabilities. Thorough all that, children are particularly vulnerable. Madam Temporary Speaker, as the number of children using the internet increases and the age at which they begin decreases, identifying and addressing these risks becomes and important public policy objective. The Government should consider how to mitigate risks without reducing children‟s opportunities and benefits and how to prevent risks while preserving fundamental values such as freedom of speech and the right to privacy. Parents and caregivers should monitor and guide their children on the content they consume on TV, radio and other online platforms. State organs such ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: confinement, isolation and economic vulnerabilities. Thorough all that, children are particularly vulnerable. Madam Temporary Speaker, as the number of children using the internet increases and the age at which they begin decreases, identifying and addressing these risks becomes and important public policy objective. The Government should consider how to mitigate risks without reducing children‟s opportunities and benefits and how to prevent risks while preserving fundamental values such as freedom of speech and the right to privacy. Parents and caregivers should monitor and guide their children on the content they consume on TV, radio and other online platforms. State organs such ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: I have a Petition to the Senate under Articles 37 and 119 of the Constitution regarding the illegal alienation of land belonging to Kitale Primary School by a private developer, one Mr. Nathaniel Tum. This is a humble Petition to the Senate by the Rt. Rev. (Dr.) Emmanuel Temengich, a citizen of the Republic of Kenya in his capacity as the Chairperson of the Kitale Primary School Board of Management and the Anglican Bishop of the Kitale Diocese. He hereby lodges this Petition pursuant to Section 3 of the Petitions to Parliament Act on his own behalf and on behalf ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: LR24/719. The said reservation was designated as an educational institution, specifically, the Kitale Primary School. The school has changed names overtime and also been identified as Kitale School and Kitale Academy for the last 91 years. The development plan of 1973 was approved by the Kitale Department of Urban Planning and the Commission of Lands, which reserved the said 55 hectares to the school, including all the land so grabbed by Mr. Nathaniel Tum. The school has reserved 30 acres of its land for the Secondary School and was commissioned in 1994. There is no Personal Development Plan (PDP) that ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: erected a petrol station, which is on site to date and a survey was done. Mr. Tum was issued with a new title deed, Block 12/236 to exclude the school facilities, but the sewage pits remained on the land that he had grabbed. The school Board of Governors wrote to the Commissioner of Lands complaining that the public land, which they will require for expansion for a secondary school and a tertiary institution had been transferred to Mr. Tum. The National Land Commission (NLC) visited the school in 2019 and in February, 2020, but has not taken any substantive action ... view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: The Ndung’u Land Report also reported the matter and recommended that the land reverts to the school for public use. Around 2013, Mr. Tum once again surreptitiously managed to get another title, No.12236, to exclude the area encroaching on the dormitories. The school went to court challenging the title deed by way of judicial review, and the High Court Judge, Justice Karanja ruled that the proprietary rights of Mr. Tum on the land cannot be taken away by judicial review, and that the pleadings before the court were fatal to the suite. He noted that the remedy lies elsewhere. view
• 17 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the school, being dissatisfied with the decision of the High Court, appealed the ruling to the Court of Appeal, which agreed with the High Court that judicial review was not the remedy, whether the title was acquired legally or illegally. In February 2020, the school filed a complaint for the second time in the National Land Commission (NLC). The NLC from Trans Nzoia County visited the school in October 2020 for a fact-finding mission, but there is no feedback yet. view