Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: I support the Report of the Committee. I agree with the Members that NG-CDF has changed the landscape of development in the country. I remember when we were coming up with the Constitution 2010, Hon. Amina Abdalla told me that I would agree with her one day. I disagreed with her at that time. I agree with her now. What we needed to do was economic devolution but not political devolution. We would not have the problems that we have now between the Senate and Governors because the money would already be in NG-CDF. We would be disbursing money for ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: We have significantly less money than county governments. Even though most of us do not do the big projects as they are supposed to do, you can see the work of NG-CDF in every single village. There is a class, laboratory, dormitory, fence, water in schools, roads that lead to schools and security facilities. NG-CDF does a bit of work. The only challenge is that it is very misunderstood. Most people do not know the structure. It is very important for the NG-CDF Board to do a lot of civic education. As Parliament, we can facilitate this by putting in ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: gave us somebody else to be in the PMC. Sitting in the PMC means that your voice is heard and it means that you are the one who ensures the tendering process is done well. It also means that the building will be done to your standard. The only challenge I see, as the Committee goes around, is that it should help us to take stock. The Committee should bring this amendment. We have an oversight committee that currently earns only Ksh30,000 a year yet it is expected to undertake its oversight mandate well. Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I see my time is over. I support. view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have no problem with Hon. T.J., but I want to request him to sit down. It is procedural that two Members cannot be upstanding. I had pressed my button for the next debate, but when you called Hon. T.J., I was given the chance. We originally come from Suba North, but they cannot confuse us. From our names to the anatomy, we cannot be confused. view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order. I stand guided. However, my understanding is what the Committee is doing is actually rejecting and persuading the House to reject the Bill. In that case, it should be placed before us and the House will make a decision. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Am I allowed to proceed? view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity. Respectfully, I wish to disagree with the Committee. I wish to say that I support, but with amendments. The Committee has raised a very fundamental legal issue. They are saying that there are legal frameworks that are providing for this Bill. I had not looked at them. I am going to look at them in-depth. However, from my understanding of those frameworks, first, the Constitution gives a very broad legal framework. Therefore, what provides the detailed framework of implementation is a law. It is a secondary legislation. The other ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Therefore, I am seeing it very strong on ideology, but very thin on implementation and that is why I am saying that I would want to support with amendments. Moreover, I am hoping that by the time it will be coming to the Committee of the whole House, I will have had time to look at the other two County Governments Acts and the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act which mainly talks about principles of equitable share. However, it does not go at length on how this is done at county levels. In addition, I would want to reserve this ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support the Bill. It is an important amendment to the Cancer Act. Almost all of us either know or have dealt with a person who has cancer. I took care of my uncle, who unfortunately never married and never had children. So, I actually took palliative care of him until he died. He almost died in my house through that process. I actually know the loopholes that are there in terms of lack of palliative care, expenses entailed in cancer treatment and lack of facilities especially ... view