Millie first thought about becoming Mbita MP at age 13. The graduate of University of Nairobi School of Law has worked as a lawyer and women and children rights activist. The CRADLE is one of the MP’s dream come true. She founded the organization that promotes the rights of children since 1997. Millie has received the YWCA Democracy Award and the Eve woman of the year for human rights and gender. Her political tipping point came when she served as a delegate at the Bomas of Kenya, during the constitutional drafting process. ODM party nominated her to Parliament 2008 and she clinched the Mbita seat in the 2013 election.
26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, can I suggest a way forward?
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Yes, I was actually going to say that. I know I am an environmental lawyer in another life. So, I am really okay with issues of climate change even the way it is put. But if he wants to withdraw and bring a substantive law, we can always make reference back to this law. So, I just wanted to suggest that we put the word “submit” and move on.
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, that may be my understanding, but I wanted to oppose the deletions. I wish to oppose because if you notice, a lot of the deletions have to do with the rights that protect women rights to ownership of property.
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the title would apply if I am agreeable to the deletions that we do away with the titles. Then the rest can go to the other parts. That would be my understanding, but I am opposed to those deletions.
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I would really love to see the laws under which these specific rights are provided for. If those laws are there, I would really stand guided. But to the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the law where they should come is the matrimonial property law which is not there. It is a Bill which has been pending for more than ten years. If hon. Orengo can show me as he has made reference that these provisions are one of the lands laws, then I stand guided, but I did not, to the best ...
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am not being difficult, but I really want to stand guided. If the Minister can look at the provisions of Clause 59, especially Clause 59(i), if a spouse obtains matrimonial property for the co- ownership, (ii) if the matrimonial property is held in the name of one spouse or the other and it is a long thing; the whole of Clause 59. I do not see a comparative provision in what the Minister is saying. What the Minister was saying was a very brief provision in relation to co-tenancy, but this is very specific ...
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, to enable us move forward, I will take the Minister’s assurance. I will look at what we passed yesterday. If the Minister assures me that we passed that, then I will take his assurance.
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I support this amendment because it protects our women.
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25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in supporting, first of all, I want to stand in solidarity with the families who lost their loved ones in the flash flooding in Hell’s Gate in Naivasha and Gwasi and those who lost their property in Lambwe. This shows the effects of climate change and the Government is not doing enough to mitigate these effects of climate change. I would have wished to hear more of that in the President’s Speech. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I note that the President urged us ...
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25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to know from the Minister what confidence we, as a country, can have despite his very good Statement, because some of us have no confidence in the Commissioner of Police. I keep saying it and I will say it over and over again. I was traumatized when I was attacked by a gang of six people and I wrote a statement at Mbita Police Station, and the Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) confirmed that. The Commissioner of Police went public and read a statement. He is the one who knows where he got it ...
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