Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

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• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Minister in order to treat this matter as casually as he is doing? We have requested to go off record. I urge that you allow us to go into camera. view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to welcome back the hon. Minister. The symptoms that the Minister has given are very akin to the symptoms of malaria and typhoid. Many times, when patients go to hospitals for treatment for typhoid and malaria, it takes awhile even to diagnose that. What are you doing to put the malaria and typhoid-prone areas on high alert, so that any case that presents itself in those hospitals is tested to eliminate Ebola? That is because the symptoms are almost mirror for typhoid and malaria. view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would also like to indicate that I am not too sure why the Minister is sharing our frustration because he is the Leader of Government Business and also because of his own confession, he has not called a meeting yet neither has he raised this issue in the Cabinet. So, his frustrations are self inflicted and it just shows the attitude that the Front Bench has. Indeed, this week alone, we have raised concerns at the poor response by the Front Bench on matters of this House and we are more concerned ... view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I can hear hon. Martha trying to speak some Luo, but I want to advise her to be careful because the terminology she is using has two meanings, and the pronouncement she has just given is a bit dangerous. I might not repeat it. However, having said that, I rise to second this Motion and thank the hon. Chairman for ably leading the Committee and also thank the members for doing an excellent job. view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the outset, I want to say that, as a member of the Committee, I was very heavily involved in the work of the Committee and in the field trips. Indeed, when we went out, the field visits were an eye opener and I remember that when we came back from one of those sessions, I actually had an outburst here in Parliament because some of the things that we saw were very shocking and many of us were not aware of the situation that many people went through and the status of IDPs in ... view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: later saw written by Maina Kiai after she died, came before our committee. She had lost two or three sons during the post-election violence period. She was herself displaced, I think one of the sons lost a leg, one was shot, she herself was raped and she eventually died of HIV/AIDS. Those are people who did not even get the Kshs10,000 ex-gratia payment. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we stood there I saw one of our hon. Members almost cry. It was really shocking. There must be an element in us that is human before we say where we ... view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: before and it has started coming out. The other day you saw one community evicting another community from the grave area because they felt one was favoured against the other. We do not want to mention them here because it is politically incorrect to mention people by names. I will be dead and gone one day as Millie but we must leave a country where tribes must live with each other. We cannot promote or further Government policy that creates friction. Mr. Kigen always raises these issues. He always pulls me aside and says, “Millie come and we talk because ... view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to indicate that on the ground we found that there are no serious efforts on reconciliation. Therefore, we find that it is some communities that were trying on their own to reconcile with their neighbours. But the Government was not making serious efforts at reconciling communities that have lived with each other. Since we have only few months to go to the next election, we must heighten reconciliation efforts within communities. view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Finally, I want to say that we must have a comprehensive policy and legal framework in place, so that, God forbid, should we ever have a similar situation again it would enable us deal with it. I know, for instance, that we have a Bill for victims’ view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: protection. It looks primarily at victimization of women and children of all categories and in all circumstances. One of the things I was looking at is in case of situations of victimization of big proportions. The Government must have a policy that talks about documenting people immediately and there are very specific criteria that are given in dealing with circumstances like those. I think the Chair himself is pushing the IDP Bill. Let the Committee push that Bill because I have been told that the Government wants to take over. But because of the urgency, let the Committee push. We ... view