Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

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• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to laud the Minister for the Bill providing for the inclusion of regional and ethnic diversity. But I want to urge him to also include gender and age diversity; gender will take into account both men and women while age diversity will take into account the youth. I know there are very good provisions on persons with disability, but we always forget our youth; can we, please, make provisions that take into account our youth? view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, again, just like the Teachers Service Commission Bill that we have looked at, I want to laud the Minister for making very strong provisions on freedom of information. Again, I think this is the first time I am actually seeing in a Bill that we are very conscious of constitutional provisions on limitations. When you want to limit a provision of a Bill of Rights, then it must be done according to the Constitution; that you must state to what extent you are providing those limitations. This Bill seeks to do so. It is a good ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to indicate that if you look at Clause 32(1) which talks about transition of the existing commissioners. I would really have benefitted to know from the Minister how many commissioners are still serving and what their time limits are. We do not know whether their time was extended yesterday to evade the provisions of this Bill; we do not know if it will be extended between the process of the Third Reading and the Presidential Assent because then they will still be covered. To avoid such mischief, because some of us are not ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, again, there is the issue of the fixed six-year term. I do not know why we must have a fixed six-year term. We must borrow from the other provisions that we have done before, and I have not seen where we have Commissions that have a fixed six-year term. We have three years renewable, so that if there is any Commissioner who is now working effectively, we do not have to go through the long constitutional process of removal. But we can have an opportunity within those three years to choose somebody afresh. view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to talk about the issue of penalties, just as I spoke on the other Bill. We must look at the penalties and try to harmonize. You can see that under this Bill, for the same offence a person is being fined Kshs500,000 or imprisoned for a term not exceeding seven years or to both such fine and imprisonment. I have no problem with it, but if you look at The Teachers Service Commission Bill that we have looked at, it is the same offence but with lower penalties. So, I would want to ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, there is the issue of conflict of interest, I think under the Third Schedule, Section 12. I do not understand, again, here because there are two Bills that are following each other and so, it is very easy to pick those differences. But this Bill is more general in terms of the issue of conflict of interest. The Teachers Service Commission Bill, specifically talks about spouses. I do not know whether there is something very significant about the Teachers Service Commission, that is not unique to the Public Service Commission. So, I would want to urge ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is Ms. Karua and Dr. Khalwale in order to claim to be the de facto leaders of the Opposition when Ms. Amina Abdalla declared that I am the one who speaks the most and, therefore, the de facto leader of the Opposition in this House. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is Ms. Amina Abdalla in order to suggest that ODM is dead when we all know ODM is reloaded? view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I just need your direction because you have indicated that the provisions relating to the Finance Act be deleted. The provisions the hon. Attorney-General has moved are the ones that, following the ruling of the Speaker, will be dropped; he stood them down. So, I would like to get directions because part of the Speaker’s ruling had to do with dropping provisions that are unconstitutional. If, therefore, in the view of the hon. Attorney-General, those are the only provisions that are unconstitutional then I think I would need your ruling on ... view