Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As a country, we do not put a lot of effort in ECD education. So, when we get it wrong, then the children go wrong in their academia. I was very privileged to get very good grounding in ECD. I know the benefit. I recently heard one of my colleagues or age-mate saying that some of us are in a very good generation because we got a little bit of colonial era education and have been through every Government. I benefit a little from what was provided by the missionaries in my nursery school. If you look at the import ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I wanted to talk about pre-registration in Clause 13, but I have seen it there. We have done a very good thing in registration. I wish we can also provide it in primary schools because currently, there are primary and secondary schools in my constituency that have been trying to be registered for more than a year. We need timelines, so that we do not register in perpetuity. We should not be too punitive when it comes to registration because most of the areas where we come from, you find that people start studying under trees because that is what ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Clause 19(3) provides that the ECD education centres should have one acre of land. I am not very good in measurement, but I was told that this entire room is one-quarter of an acre. Most of our centres are not that big and land is scarce. So, we are basically saying that we will not be registering schools. We need to reduce that acreage. Clause 21 talks about mobile ECD centres without saying under what circumstances we will be providing them. Under Clause 22, we have provided standards of occupational health for private schools only. We are not talking about ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I was concerned about the fact that there seems to be no uniform curriculum, but I have seen that it is provided. Most of our ECD education centres neither have a uniform curriculum nor standards of the teachers. I am happy because the Bill provides that. I suggest that the head teachers need to have higher qualifications than the teachers to make a difference not only in 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
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: experience, but also in education. If the teachers are in the diploma level, then the head teacher should have a degree. In Clause 30(6), the board should not co-opt other members because that is bringing people into the committee through the back door. Clause 35(c) is contradictory. The Bill talks of non-payment of fees, but Clause 35 suggests that we can pay fees. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: In Clause 40(2), we need to add the word “sex” to discrimination because we are increasingly realising that we have children who are intersex who have been excluded. These are children who have two genitalia, both male and female. I was recently talking to some of them as part of the Parliamentarians for Global Action Kenya and what was evident is that when a child who presents two genitalia goes to school, the teachers do not know how to classify them. They do not know which toilet to go to and they get a lot of discrimination. One of them ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The age of admission should be worded as a guide. I know that we provided an exception, but we should not give it to the teacher because in rural and marginalised areas, children start going to school very late for reasons which are beyond them. I have told you the case of Sukuru Island. Most of the children go to school late because they are in an island and the schools are on the mainland. When we say that the age will be four to six years, then it means, out of no fault of their own, they will be ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Clause 49 talks about the teacher-child ratio, which shall be determined by the county or regulation. For us to hold those counties accountable, we should be the ones, by this law, to determine the ratio so that our Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDCs) have very good standards. I have a lot of issues I wanted to raise, but I will leave it there for now. I will propose amendments later and speak to them when I bring them. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to congratulate Hon. Martha for bringing this Bill. I think it is very timely. People say that great minds think alike. I currently have the Reproductive Healthcare Bill that has almost exactly the same provisions. The reason why I made the provisions under the Reproductive Healthcare Bill is because when you have people who are adopting children, they will actually be the real parents by law and psychologically. These will be the real parents of the child, but you cannot have a situation where you give other parents an ... view