Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5581 to 5590 of 6553.

• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Minister for bringing to my attention that my Question has “adoption” instead of “abduction”. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: What I would want to tell her is that in this country, a lot of children are trafficked through several processes, one of which is through abduction, especially by divorced parents; two, through adoptions; three, through stealing and four, through miracle babies. I have dealt with a lot of cases of trafficking, including a case where the Ministry was involved and the Government of Kenya (GOK) was represented in a case in the United Kingdom (UK); one child’s name was changed severally. At one time she was Anyango and another time she was Muthoni. She was given all manner of ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I would like the Minister to clarify is that we have cases where the adoption societies use homes that are not regulated. You find a lot of Kenyan children in homes that are not regulated; people come in and actually adopt children that are not available for adoption. I was actually consulted by an American lawyer who wanted to adopt a Kenyan child, who by coincidence happened to be a child that we were supporting as an orphan. The child was from Central Province, whose parents had died. We were also providing school fees ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to request the Assistant Minister while he is responding to the same issue of growing violence as we move towards the general elections, if he could also clarify what the Ministry has done in relation to supporters of ODM who were attacked in the Ikolomani by-election and, to date, there is no information about what was done to arrest the persons who attacked the ODM supporters in Ikolomani. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank the Attorney-General for moving this Bill. I want to thank the Attorney-General for bringing this Bill. While appreciating the efforts of the Attorney-General, however, for purposes of records and for information of the public, I would have loved to know why we are bringing a new Partnership Bill when there is already an existing one. What was the mischief or what is the mischief that we intend to cure by bringing up a whole new piece of legislation? I hope that in his response, he will address himself to some of those ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: I would also like to say that the same manner and the same approach that has been taken by the other new laws like the Sexual Offences Act and the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act, you need to have a section on implementing this law. The Constitution provides for it. The Sexual Offences Act provides for it. The Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act also provides for it. Can we just as a matter of practice have every law having an implementation clause so that Kenyans are protected? With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think hon. Isaac is a little bit confused because he has just come back from the ODM Party Elections. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to laud hon. Wamalwa for bringing this notable amendment. I want to indicate that he has by this amendment given life to Article 227 of the Constitution. I am a human rights defender and this is one of the areas where we are implementing the human rights based approach. I am saying that because it looks at the marginalized and excluded in the society. As hon. Wamalwa has indicated, the youth form the majority of the population of this country and they are the ones who do not have access to resources ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: “(c) Makes or implements public policy decisions”. Some of those principles found in Sub-Article (2)(b) include human dignity, equity, social justice, inclusiveness, equality and human rights. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you notice, some of the reasons that were given for our fight are equality and equity for areas that have been marginalised over the years. We must include them. Unless we actually realise that, as a country, we will never solve the problems that bedevil us. I like giving the example that I have given before. I actually laud the principals even though we attack them on the Floor ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: If you look at Sub-Article (2), you will see that it talks about inclusion of categories of preference in the allocation of contracts and the protection or advancement of persons, categories of persons or groups previously disadvantaged by unfair competition or discrimination. view