Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party for what is laid down in terms of the business of the House. What I would like him to clarify is something in relation to the Private Members’ Bills. Yesterday we had a few, which is a good move. We, however, have Bills, for example, I have three Bills right from the last Parliament which I drafted myself. All that is required is just a review of the Bills. It is now three years. This shows that there is a problem with our Legal Department. What I want to ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of information, hon. Speaker. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I wish to inform the Leader of Minority Party that we read the letter that was sent by the Speaker of the Senate; me and hon. Shebesh, and it was clear. They said that the Senate must give a given number of Members and the National Assembly must give. So, it is really a way between the Senate and the National Assembly. However, the Senate is trying to pig ride on the fact that at one point there was a disagreement in CORD, which to some extent hon. Duale was right, up to some months ago. That was ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. In supporting this Bill, I want to say that it is not an entirely new Bill, but it is really an improvement or an overhaul of an existing Act. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the LSK for conducting the recently held elections in a very peaceful manner. Hon. Speaker, I think for the first time there were concerns that there was a lot of political interest. I want to encourage the Society to refrain from being affected by national politics and to maintain the ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to also revisit what hon. A.B. Duale raised when he was moving this Bill, he raised concern over the number of cases and the varying decisions that are coming from this court that does not seem to establish any precedent. That is worrying. I want to agree with him that our Judiciary has not fully embraced reforms. We want to encourage that they need to embrace reforms. But on the other hand, I want to say that it is an indictment on our IEBC that they need to learn to do elections well. I want to ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue of concern to me is that I am very happy that this Bill provides for paralegal personnel. But in the same spirit of providing for paralegals, I think we need to provide a standard. Over the years, I have trained paralegal personnel. One of the things that we are doing is to work towards standardizing the profession so that not everybody just wakes up and says that he is a paralegal. One needs to have gone through some uniform and standardized training to qualify even to support a lawyer as a paralegal. The ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: five-foot ball. If we provide for this cross-border practice, it means if I am not acceptable at home, I can go and practise in Uganda, Tanzania, or Rwanda. So, I am very happy with this openness that allows us to use our skills and techniques across the borders. Finally, I want to say that I am very happy especially with the professional approach that this Bill takes. Yesterday when we were talking about the issue of ranking, hon. Members were not very happy with what I was saying. We can borrow from the LSK because I know when you are ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I have spoken and I have been given ten minutes. So, I come to equity with clean hands. I think I made this remark yesterday and I want to repeat it. This is a House of debate and I am personally really perturbed at the trend that we are taking, that we want to reduce every debate to five minutes or three minutes. Even 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
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: from what I can see and I have not been able to see the slots there but prima facie, I suspect there are not many people who want to speak to this Bill. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think we need to also be guided by the Chair that there is time normally allocated. If we do not finish this Bill today, the time will be there up to tomorrow but whenever we reduce time to five minutes we are developing a very negative culture in this House. Some Members who do not have things to say will speak for three minutes and some will speak for two minutes but whenever we reduce time to three minutes because maybe I am interested in the next Bill or the next one, we are reducing ... view