Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5571 to 5580 of 6553.

• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the reason I am saying that it does not strictly refer to Article 2 (5) but may, in a way, affect is because the process of crystallization of general rules of international law is very different from the way treaties or conventions crystallize or become law. view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Governments go through a deliberative effort of coming up with treaties or conventions and one of the processes is through ratification of treaties. This was one of the issues that was the main bone of contention during the campaigns for the Constitution, where the “No team” was actually using Article 2 (6) to oppose the Constitution because, in their view, they were saying that if we leave the ratification of treaties, then we are taking away the mandate of the people of Kenya through their representatives in Parliament to enact legislation and pass legislation that Kenyans ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Indeed, one of the concerns--- view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: The Attorney-General, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Not only am I a lady, but he taught me jurisprudence in first year and I want to use that knowledge to inform the Attorney-General that we have a living Constitution and, therefore, under that living Constitution, he can use Article 23 (3) (e) that a court can give an order for compensation. If you are talking about rights – and these people’s rights were denied - as read together with Article 22(c) it says that a person acting in the public interest can do that. As read together with Article 20 it ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: “(3) In applying a provision of the Bill of Rights, a court shall— view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: (a) develop the law to the extent that it does not give effect to a right or fundamental freedom;” view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: So, the Attorney-General can wiggle around and ensure that these innocent Kenyans who were denied their rights in one way or the other--- I know the difficulties that the Attorney-General is getting legally, but this Constitution gives him room to wiggle out and help them. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development:- (a) whether Kenya has ratified the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Adoption of 25th October, 1980; (b) how many Kenyan children have been adopted by foreign nationals from 2008 to date; and, (c) what the Government is doing to protect children against possible trafficking through the International Adoption Process. view