Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

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• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have been listening carefully to the Committee hoping to make my contributions on the Report. I am a little bit concerned from a legal perspective. Hon. Kaluma has the same concern. I am raising this, so that you can guide us. Unfortunately, because I did not know we will have this as business this afternoon, I did not look at the health laws. I am wondering if we can be guided. I am equating this to the legal profession. I do not want to go into the merits and demerits of the appointment of that ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: operate - Hon. Mbui has said that nobody has complained – if there will be a health issue, the complaint will be that: “I have no eye or my two eyes have gone.” So, yes, there are substantive issues, but there are also locus issues. Therefore, you can guide us on whether Parliament is properly seized of this matter. Thank you. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The name is Odhiambo Akoth; even though traditionally I should be Adhiambo because I was born in the evening. Because my father is Odhiambo, I am named after an event which was happening, that is, the rain. So, that is why I am marvellously blessed because rains signify blessings; in case you have ever wondered why I am so blessed. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Having said that, I take this opportunity to be the only single opposing voice, I wish to oppose this Report. I can see the Chairman smiling at me. I oppose this Report because from the confession of the Chairman himself, there is no gender balance in the appointments, which is unconstitutional. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know Members are telling you that we have two out of six before you take into account the Inspector-General of Police. You can almost automatically tell that a woman will not be appointed as Inspector-General. So, unless we have an assurance that for the first time we are going to get a woman Inspector-General of the police, I wish to oppose. If the appointing authority is listening to us, then they should know that if they do not appoint a woman Inspector-General of Police, then they would have appointed a non- constitutional body. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I know that every time we have appointments here, we keep saying that the youth and PWDs have not been appointed, but will be appointed in the next one. When is the next time? One thing I would like to say is that many times the young persons, women and PWDs suffer discrimination. There is a category that suffers what we call inter-sectionality; which means suffering multiple discrimination. I will give this example: As Hon. Millie Odhiambo, I may suffer discrimination as a woman, but I will also suffer discrimination as a minority because I am a Suba. My sister ... view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I would want to encourage committees that whenever they consider these appointments that they advise the appointing authorities to use reverse inter-sectionality. When you use that, it means if you want to be constitutionally correct, you appoint a woman who is young and has a disability. That is reverse inter-sectionality. That way you would have killed three birds with one 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
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: stone. Nobody will accuse you of discriminating against women, youth or PWDs. It is not that they are in short supply. For those of us who watched television yesterday, there was a very brilliant girl who caught the attention of Kenyans who was doing the sign language interpretation. Imagine if you had somebody like that. I do not know if she is a PWD but assuming she is one and she is young, smart and brilliant... There are many PWDs who are young, women and minorities. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: So, if we bothered to look around, we would get persons who are qualified especially because they do not qualify for appointments into the Police Service. This would have been the opportunity to include them. I also wish to indicate that the commissioners are coming in when the index of confidence in the police is extremely low. My brother has just spoken here of police brutality, especially during elections. I hope this new incoming commission will be more sensitive. There is lot of money that has been invested in police reforms and we are not seeing any positive outcomes. view