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.
11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, my proposal is that, “except with the advice of a medical geneticist, organ change or removal in case of an intersex child...
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, yes, I have moved it in an amended form. Thank you.
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I only moved one part. The other one is just enhancing a sentence from “two hundred” to “five hundred”, because many people will violate the rights of a child and raise funds as we nowadays 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.
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
do in WhatsApp groups. Within one hour we would have raised 200. So, you can easily violate the rights of a child and create a WhatsAp p group. We need to provide punitive measures. Thank you.
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 22 of the Bill be amended in subsection (2) by deleting the words “not exceeding” and substituting therefor the words “not less than” wherever they occur.
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Again, this has to do with punitive measures. The way the sentences are worded, it makes it very lenient because when we state that it should not exceed, we are merely capping the maximum, but the minimum can be as small as one month since many children’s lives are destroyed by drugs. We should make it very stringent for people who want to access drugs to be dealt with very severely. Almost for all of us, it occurs either within the family or if not the immediate family, the wider family. Most of our children are messed up because of ...
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
That is my proposed amendment.
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 23 of the Bill be amended in subsection (2) by inserting the 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.
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
following proviso- “Provided that any such punishment shall be humane and preserve the child’s dignity, and be commensurate with the evolving capacity of the child.”
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11 May 2022 in National Assembly:
Here we are talking about punishment to children. We are saying that assignment of any task or infliction of punishment by way of penalty for any offence committed by a child under any law shall not be construed as a contravention of the right specified under subsection (1) which is basically that children should not be punished. It borrows a lot from the Convention against Torture.
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