Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairperson. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairperson, I am concerned that we are proceeding as though there are no women Members of Parliament (MPs) in this House. In the matter that has just been concluded, only male MPs have been given an opportunity to speak. In addition, when we are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: raising a Bill as the one that we have just dealt with - where you need the numbers and yet we may not necessarily have those numbers - there is nowhere we are rushing to. Every Member’s voice needs to be heard. I am here representing the people of Suba North and they need to hear that I opposed a law that is oppressing them. So, even though the Executive may have their way through this super legislation, you cannot then force us not to speak in this House. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairperson. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairperson, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni needs to explain himself there because I am not convinced. The original provision was targeting persons with disabilities but when you talk about special interest groups in general and you are talking about communication, then we are presuming that the issue of communication affects everybody equally yet, persons with hearing and visual disabilities are the ones that require such kind of special attention. Can he clarify to us why he is moving away from persons with disability? view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am both a majority and a minority. My mother is Luo so I am a majority. My father is a Suba so I am a minority. So, we might also provide a criterion for ‘mino-majorities’ but that is not what I am actually raising. I had raised an issue for Hon. Kioni but I notice where the confusion is. He is talking about Clause 5 in general when he has two amendments, (d) and (e). I have no problem with (e), which is providing criterion for including the minorities and marginalised. I have just presented ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Maybe you need to guide us so that we are on the same page. My understanding since we started this electronic process is that you use the intervention button when you want to contribute when we are in the Committee of the whole House. So, it will appear that Hon. Otiende wants to contribute and he is not on a point of order if he has pressed the intervention button. So, I think we have gone back. Let us go back to the old system if we do it that way. Unfortunately, you had ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I wish to oppose this one. If you noticed, when we moved Clause 9 as Hon. Mbadi said, he brought poison with medicine. That made it difficult because it provided for representation of women and ensures that we have more women through political parties. As we are increasingly seeing these amendments go, anything that has to do with special interests – which covers also women – we are quick to dismiss and yet political parties have no clear formula of doing this. I have now been elected twice and there is no formula in ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I actually understand what Hon. Jeremiah Kioni is trying to do. It is the way he phrased it that does not deal with the issue. The reason I am saying this is because in the last Parliament we formed a panel of Members of Parliament specifically for nominating MCAs. One Member in my county nominated everyone yet we sat and actually came up with a list which is in law, and as was provided for in our party constitution. So, when a person violates the law, what is the option that is available and yet they ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I would want members to listen to me keenly. If you look to what Hon. Osotsi is doing, he is deleting- if you look at the proposed amendments in Clause 18, it says: view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: “Section 35 of the Elections Act, 2011 is amended by- (a) renumbering the existing provision as subsection (1); (b) inserting the following new subsection immediately after (1)- view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (2) The partly list shall be submitted together with a statutory declaration signed by the person authorised to certify that the candidates were nominated by the party and minutes of the approval of the list by the party’s election board.” Therefore, what he is basically doing is that he is saying that instead of micromanaging the party and telling the party to bring minutes, then scale it up and say “use the party constitution or regulations.” However, if we are to go by what Hon. Duale is saying, then we need to reject Hon. Osotsi’s and reject the main one. ... view