Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

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• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I will be proposing amendments, if the Committee has none, to Clause 9(3) so that where you have the Chair as a man, the Vice-Chair should be a woman. That is a standard that we set in the last Parliament but we seem to be lowering standards in this Parliament. Let us not lower standards. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: This Parliament is relatively young in terms of age. So, we should not be thinking about stone age but we should be thinking more progressively than the old Parliament. I am very happy with the provisions on ensuring benefit sharing with the communities. I had a lot more but I can see my time is up. So, I will leave it at that. I will propose the others through the amendments. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Bill. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am really a bit concerned that from the mood of the House Members are largely agreed on a lot of the issues and amendments. Some of them may be lost because we are moving very unprocedurally – with due respect. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I will give you the unprocedural issue. Number one, at this stage, if it is the Chairman of the Committee who is moving, no other Member can move an amendment. The procedures are very clear that we must have given notice. At this point you cannot just wake up, write and give an amendment; it is unprocedural. The Chairman alone can move amendments at this point. The other issue--- view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. We need clarity. view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support with amendments. I want to agree with hon. David Ochieng. When I sit in the Opposition I do not just oppose for the sake of opposing. I have looked at this Bill and especially in light of the Constitution and just like the Matrimonial Property Bill that we passed, most of it is good but there are one or two parts that need amendment. However, again, of course, it depends on the extent. Sometimes it is only one little thing, like in the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Matrimonial Property Bill the only thing that poisoned it was the word “joint”. Indeed, the Bible says the little foxes that spoil our vineyard. So, there are some little foxes here that are spoiling the vineyard of this Bill. So, I will be willing to support it with amendments. I know when we were in the constitutional review process right from Bomas the issue of media regulation was very contentious then and at that point I was a very strong proposer for State control of the media and it is surprising coming from a civil society. However, the reason I ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: have any training in journalism but I am a writer. We therefore want to be able to hold the true journalists to account and not spoil their names when we have the rogue people who purport to be journalists going around claiming to be journalists. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing I would also want amended as the Members have put their voices to is on the issue of appointment of the Council, borrowing again from the LSK. I have never seen any Cabinet Secretary appointing for us the members of the LSK Council. So, we must have faith ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Is there some allergy that we have? Do we contaminate the public? We are from the public. We are not contagious. Indeed, I can give you examples. We had hon. Njoki Ndung’u from this House who passed the Sexual Offences Act and now is a member of the Supreme Court. She did not wait for five years. Now if she can manage the Supreme Court within five years, unless of course there are some other issues which I do not want to say but really if she did not wait for five years, why should we obligate people to wait ... view