Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are many benefits of having efficient and sustainable waste management but before I go into that, I just want to bring to your attention that very recently, CNN aired a feature story where in one of the island nations, there was an amazing amount of waste in terms of bottles and other things. This impact of such waste on the health and wellbeing of the people is so much. Some waste can cause cancers. Indeed, during one of the times we visited Hong Kong as a Committee of Parliament, I was shocked because I thought ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: I do not know why I find it difficult but those of us who often travel outside the country know that if you live in the US, for instance, you see it so clearly. There is a bin for glasses and another bin for reusable paper and all that. In Kenya, we are not able to recycle waste because if I use paper to throw my ugali in and all that, it becomes impossible to recycle it. When we create such an industry, it also creates jobs for our young people. Also, as indicated earlier, it protects us from negative ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: the Majority Party that he should not be worried. We know that there are Members who come to the House early to defeat one item and run away but we usually come back and overturn their decisions because they do not have numbers. I have once said on the Floor of this House that the numbers that they have is telephone numbers. So, let them defeat this then we will come back and overturn it. So, Leader of the Majority Party, sit pretty knowing that the agenda that you want passed here will be passed. With those few remarks, I ... view
• 5 Jan 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Of course, I support the Third Reading. I just want to say one or two things. view
• 5 Jan 2022 in National Assembly: First of all, it is a fallacy. I note that Duale is running away because he does not want to hear when I give him facts but I want to tell him before he goes that UDA is not the largest conglomerate of anything because in UDA they have Chama Cha Mashinani; in UDA, they have Chama Cha Dancers; in UDA, they have KANU; in UDA, they have ODM with Aisha; in UDA, they have Jubilee; in UDA, I even hear that their Secretary-General is an official Member of ODM. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 5 Jan 2022 in National Assembly: So, they are just people who are living a fantasy about a large party that is not large. They had been talking to us about numbers out there but when they came here, we discovered that the numbers they were talking about are telephone numbers. They are not numbers of Members of this House. When it came to where the rubber meets the road, we discovered that UDA has telephone numbers only. view
• 5 Jan 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, UDA keeps on threatening us about taking this law to court. I hope the courts are listening. As a lawyer, I want to advise the courts to not be seen to be aligned to one side of the political divide. The UDA cannot purport to say that when they have been defeated by numbers here on issues which are not constitutional, they are going to court. Why? My sisters, Hon. Alice Wahome and Hon. Cecily Mbarire, kept telling us this. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are two things that shocked me. When I was seated here, ... view
• 5 Jan 2022 in National Assembly: How do we allow the kind of things that people have been doing here? There are lies that people have been telling here without blinking an eye. On the partiality of some of the Members of the Speakers’ Panel, I have been pressing the intervention button since I came here in the morning but it is just the same people being given chances to raise points of order, especially when there is one specific presiding speaker in the Chair. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you sit there, you have done fairly well. Hon. Members, when you sit there as the ... view
• 29 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for giving me the Floor. I agree that all of us require a very transparent voting process; but you do notice that the first time that the Hon. Duale’s side voted and they won, they did not raise this issue. They are now raising the issue because they have lost. I would like us to note that the technique that their side is using is called filibustering. We are masters of filibustering. I am encouraging our Members to stay put and be resilient. We are going to sit here until midnight, even if we ... view
• 29 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for giving me the Floor. I agree that all of us require a very transparent voting process, but you do notice that the first time that the Hon. Duale’s side voted and they won, they did not raise this issue. They are now raising the issue because they have lost. I would like us to note that the technique that their side is using is called filibustering. We are masters of filibustering. I am encouraging our Members to stay put and be resilient. We are going to sit here until midnight, even if we ... view