Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

Parties & Coalitions

Born

1966

Email

odhiambomillie@yahoo.co.uk

Telephone

0721207518

Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

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.

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 351 to 360 of 6553.

  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting the heading “Duties and responsibilities of a child” appearing immediately after clause 17. I am proposing that amendment because when look at the content of the Bill, that part has nothing to do with duties and responsibilities which come much later and so it must have been a typo. I do not seem to have the clause but the Chair can help us by reading what is immediately after that. It has nothing to do with duties and responsibilities. The duties and responsibilities come ... view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 20 of the Bill be amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting therefor the following subsection- (1) No person shall subject a child to – (a) psychological abuse; or (b) child abuse. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, if you notice, it says “No person shall subject a child to psychological abuse including…” and then “any other Act amounting to child abuse as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: specified….” I was just saying for it to be neat and concise, we just say “Nobody shall subject a child to psychological abuse and to child abuse.” Already, child abuse is very clearly defined. When you say child abuse, we know what it means and I am also proposing a comprehensive definition of psychological abuse which if it passes, then it is sufficient. So we do not need to go through all these long stories because they may actually even be limiting. If you look at my definition of psychological abuse, what is put here is limiting. Then if you ... view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let me indicate that in principle, I agree with the Chair but I wanted to persuade him to adopt my wording for the following reason: During this process, I have actually had the privilege, through this Bill and the Reproductive Healthcare Bill, to meet a lot of… view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, because I am contributing towards this. view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: In contributing to this, I am actually persuading him because in principle we are moving the same amendment. We are all concerned about taking care of intersex children but I just wanted to indicate that one of the things that came out very clearly from the intersex community is that there are a number of them who think using the word “intersex genital mutilation” is actually very negative because they said it actually equates it to FGM and circumcision which is cultural and this is not cultural. This is actually done to try and correct their gender. One of the ... view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: THAT, Clause 21 of the Bill be amended - view
  • 11 May 2022 in National Assembly: (a) in subsection (1) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (g)- view

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