Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I support the Report and also join the other Members who are saying that NG-CDF is, indeed, one of the best initiatives undertaken in this 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
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: country. The only tragedy is that we have not celebrated the Member of Parliament who came up with this noble idea. Perhaps, one of the things that we missed or the misstep we had when we came up with devolution is that we needed to have undertaken economic devolution as opposed to taking the wide form of devolution. I am saying that because I would just imagine if the amount of money that is going to counties for development were to go to NG-CDF. This country would change significantly. I know that despite what is out there in the public, ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Aladdin. Thank you. It is good to sit next to learned people like my friend, Passaris. You wave the magic wand and suddenly, lo and behold, there is a classroom! NG-CDF has produced miracles like that. I spoke to a similar Motion. So, I will not say much. I want to over-emphasise one thing. As Members of Parliament, I know sometimes because we are busy, we forget our role – I included. Sometimes we are guilty of speaking to ourselves. Every person who is speaking here is acknowledging that there are two faults with NG-CDF. There are many others, but ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Another thing that Hon. Members have spoken to is the issue of 100 per cent secondary school transition that is raising challenges. There are schools that previously were pretty okay until we moved to the 100 per cent transition, which for me, as one who has worked in the sector of child rights before, is an excellent thing. We have been pushing for education for all goals, 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
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: especially the issues of transition and completion rates. For us to realise that, we must have classrooms. We cannot go some steps forward and some steps backwards. One of the issues that I got a little time to speak to last time is that there is a trend that sometimes you want to find account managers either stealing, which then gets blamed on the Members or overusing money or getting over-expenditure on administrative issues. If this happens, it eats on projects. Now, the fund account manager is not an employee of the Member. My role is oversight. As the Member ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Another issue that has arisen, which is linked to that, is the issue of supervision. When you sometimes speak to the board, they say that their challenge is that they do not have sufficient staff. Let them find a way of sorting that out, but our funds must work well. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The other issue that is of concern to me is pending projects. When we were asked as Members of Parliament, to forward pending projects, I went to my constituency and asked for every Government project that was pending and brought them. Now, as Suba North, we are being told to spread all of them in the next three years. Sometimes, they may be pending in one ward and so, development stops in all the other wards. We are completing projects that we did not start. So, the Government must commit special funds beyond the NG-CDF funds to complete Government projects ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: We can complete the projects because they are in our constituencies, but there must also be projects that align themselves to the strategic plan. Every constituency has developed a strategic plan. I am sure there is no constituency that provides one strategic objective which is to complete incomplete projects. If we want to be true to our strategic plans, the Government must provide special funds to enable us complete the pending projects. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, I want to re-emphasise the issue of the equalisation funds. Sometimes we have been challenged and I congratulate my good brother and friend, Hon. Ken Okoth, for the good work he is doing in Kibra. Sometimes we are challenged and we are asked why we cannot do the same work that he is doing. He has nine schools while I have 146 with the same allocation of funds. He can take all his money and build five schools in one year. How can I do that with 146 schools against nine schools? So, he is doing an excellent job ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you and I support. view