Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

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• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: I think the Chair is a little confused and she is confusing the House. She is talking about functionalities and the law but what she is amending makes it not just functional but also legal. The Chair is saying that the corporation secretary shall be responsible to the Director General. That therefore makes it legal. It will not just be functional; it will be legal. The corporation secretary shall not then be answerable to anybody other than the Director General. If that is your intention, that they be answerable to the Director General, that is okay. It is for order. ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, though Members are in a hurry, I want clarity from the Chairlady. This is a transitional provision. Sometimes when we are in a hurry, we make grave mistakes that make us look like we are not serious as a House. Can we have clarity because her proposal is seeking to remove a transitional clause? What then will happen? view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Just for record, I want to indicate because I am always in this stage including my own Bill, that we have gone definition by definition. The reason is because of what the Chairlady herself has done. She has dropped one. Secondly, there are definitions I do not agree with. If you put a global question to it, I may be forced to vote no when in fact, I support all. We are suffering the effects of money laundering. Be it as it may, let me just go to the specific issues that are of ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: One is the issue of “former institute”. The Chairlady had indicated to us that legally, the Kenya Industrial Research Development Institute did not exist. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, they are balancing and so, I am allowing. The former institute did not exist by law. So, when making reference to what did not exist by law, it then becomes strange legally. Secondly, when you talk about indigenous knowledge, it is usually knowledge from our fathers in communities. So a definition of indigenous knowledge should have incorporated that. For example, we have indigenous knowledge on beneficial properties of certain plants which you get in research. Wisdom does not capture the concept. When you talk about invention, innovation, intellectual property and patent and even technology, those are ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to say, as a lawyer, and especially a human rights lawyer, that these are not very easy issues because it is a question that pit rights against rights. It pits the right against discrimination, the right to privacy and the right to self-incrimination against the social and economic rights, as well as the right to good governance. Whichever way we look at it, one may have to give way, and the Constitution has a solution on who that must give way. I am actually happy that Hon. ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: What we should be looking at in terms of privacy is this: Have we met the threshold of limitations? If you look at how the amendments are provided, then the threshold is met. I will not speak to the issues that were raised by Hon. Duale because, to me, they do not meet the threshold of constitutionality. He spoke on one thing that I picked up - the issue on self-incrimination under Article 49(1)(d) of the Constitution. One of the things we should look at is this: Does a lawyer reporting mean self-incrimination. This is a moot issue which could ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: I want to speak to the issue of client-advocate privilege. By practice in the Commonwealth, it is a privilege, but it is not constitutional. Perhaps, this is something that lawyers missed. If we 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
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: have another Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), we should provide for it constitutionally. However, the lawyer-client privilege is not constitutional. Therefore, it may be undesirable, an issue for debate and not for declaration of unconstitutionality. We may defeat it or not, but it is not an issue of unconstitutionality. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you have asked me to speak to the issue of supremacy of laws. I am happy to be one of the founding mothers of the Constitution. I can tell you that I am one of the people who brought Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution. This was because of my interest in the convention and elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, convention on the rights of the children and other conventions. I was not thinking about these ones. I wanted to protect the rights that Kenya has provided for women and children internationally. ... view