Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As an adherent to the rule of law, it is a neater way to go and I support it. We must regulate our SACCOs. They are one of the organisations that are highly misused. We cannot under-regulate. People fundraise and get a lot of money in the name of youth and women, but the monies end up getting misused. I hope the regulations will be brought so that we look at them so that there is sanity in the sector. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. This is one of the clauses that in the past I would have opposed because of the nature of devolution as we had intended. Unfortunately, a lot of our counties are struggling. Most of the governors have failed and we are disappointed. Because of that, they are slowly making us to almost move back to a centralized system and I am hoping that is temporary 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 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: because they are supposed to be 47 governments plus one. Instead, most of them are not able to operate on their own. I would reluctantly support. I am hoping it is for the short term view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I rise to support that proposed amendment. When the original law was being passed, many of us did not anticipate that we could have governors whose elections would be nullified. However, the Committee should have gone further because we are seeing cut throat competition even in cases where governors’ slots have not been nullified like in my county which is no longer working because people are trying to ascend to the speakership because of an amendment like this, where people think they will come in and loot. That is the war that is going on in Homa Bay County. Nothing ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Bill. I wish to support it. In supporting it, I want to declare my personal interest. There is a Bill that came before the House when I was absent and I was told to declare my interest. Unfortunately, I was not there. But I will speak to it tomorrow. I declare my interest in every Bill that comes to this House because by training I am a lawyer. As a lawyer, I have an interest in every single law that comes to the House. Law ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was challenged when the Children Bill was brought here. I was told to declare my interest. Other than the fact that I have worked in the children’s sector all my life, I also want to declare permanent interest so that I do not have to declare it in every piece of legislation that comes here. By training, I am a lawyer. So, I must have interest in law. It goes without saying. I also have interest in this Bill because I am also a graduate of the NYS Training College. I was a recruit in ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: He was speaking about his experiences. I could not help but think that as he was picking lessons that he learnt in training, most of the things that I have learnt later in life, the thick skin that I have, the ability to endure a lot was in the NYS. We learnt to sleep while on our feet. I am not exaggerating. We would literally fall asleep while standing. We learnt to get water where there is none. We learnt to eat ugali with a bone. We learnt very many things and we were hardened at the NYS. I was ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: One of the things I liked and my colleague has talked about is that the first lesson was when you want to change the world, learn to make your bed. In the NYS, we used to make our 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 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: beds at 4.00 a.m. Once you made your bed, you would make a string and look at everything and it would be on a line. If it was not on the line, you would be punished. Because I am not very good with figures, I was always punished every morning. I learnt that the first thing you do when you want to change the world is to make your bed. You have to start small and you have to move against resistance. A few times when people see me going against the grain, I learnt it at NYS. So, as ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I like the two- thirds gender principle that is incorporated in Clause 4 with the infusion of human rights principle. I also want to say that I like the fact that under Clause 7 it provides some of the roles which include service to the nation and I know that while in NYS, we did a lot of service even though the way the training was structured was not very good. We would be made to plant flowers in the morning, by evening we would uproot them, the next morning we would plant them again. Our services could have been ... view