Millie first thought about becoming Mbita MP at age 13. The graduate of University of Nairobi School of Law has worked as a lawyer and women and children rights activist. The CRADLE is one of the MP’s dream come true. She founded the organization that promotes the rights of children since 1997. Millie has received the YWCA Democracy Award and the Eve woman of the year for human rights and gender. Her political tipping point came when she served as a delegate at the Bomas of Kenya, during the constitutional drafting process. ODM party nominated her to Parliament 2008 and she clinched the Mbita seat in the 2013 election.
25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I am just curious why in this one, we are providing a minimum qualification for a professional at diploma level when in all the others we are providing at degree level. Is it that nutritionists are very few or what is the reason? I doubt that they are very few. In my own household, we have just got one person with a degree qualification.
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Even though I support the Chair, I want to say this is not a grammatical error because the words ‘appointed’ and ‘recruited’ have very serious connotation from governance perspective. I support her, but when you recruit, it means there is openness, inclusivity and transparency which we are encouraging in this country.
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
On a point of order!
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. We always encourage that they table fewer pieces of legislation and not an omnibus Bill where Members get so tired. I am not challenging the Leader of the Majority Party, but I want us to move together. I have looked at Page 1413 and I do not see his amendments.
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Exactly. We cannot see the amendments. We need to move together.
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support the amendment. I support because of the critical role they play. We need persons with relevant expertise. If we go back to the same issue about degrees, there are certain professions we seem to treat as underhand professions and give them very low levels. That is why we talk about diploma for counsellors, psychologists, nutritionists and dieticians. We must have a paradigm shift. We have even made a provision for degrees in this Parliament and we have given Members a period within which to attain it. There are people who even want to be ...
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, is the Leader of the Majority Party in order to allude to what is against nature? He is the one who can follow Hon. Sabina Chege, not vice versa. It goes against the order of nature. He is definitely the one following Hon. Sabina Chege.
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
It is Akoth.
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25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly:
Mabona and not Mabonga. Hiyo
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