Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, now that Kenya, under the new Constitution, is obligated to respect international treaties, could the Assistant Minister clarify whether he knows that what has been done is a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights among several other rights? Could he clarify that? Could he also tell us why Kenya is violating those treaties? view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I do support but with proposed amendments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not speak to those proposed amendments today, but I want to just speak to a few issues. One; that, I wish the Minister had actually brought this law together with the electoral laws because it is creating a lot of confusion because a lot of people think that this law is very lean when it actually just sets up the Commission. But there is an electoral law that will be governing how we deal ... view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so, when I actually see a whole Minister chest-thumping and saying: “We are going to take people here by force”, we do not know that the people we are taking there are human beings. They are not commodities. A woman called Njeri was very brave in Sotik because she was a minority there. She stood up and said: “I was born in Sotik and my house was burnt there.” However, when we asked her where she would go if she was given money, she said: “I was born in Sotik and that is where I ... view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I left Rongai Constituency yesterday at midnight. They did not want us to leave. Let us take time. I know the Chair appreciates that because you have been walking through this with us. I wish we could shoot a video and show it in this House. Our sense of humanity will come back to us. We would stop politicizing things that make sense to ordinary Kenyans. They cause people to die and that they can cause this country to go under. I want to declare today that I am giving an early warning. From what ... view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in case we forgot, we heard that people who died in Trans Nzoia, according to the police, were 77. In Kisumu, there were 64 deaths. In Uasin Gishu, there were 28 deaths. In Kericho, there were 33 deaths. In Kakamega, there were 26 deaths. In Nairobi, there were 23 deaths. It was under-reported from what we were seeing on the ground. I do not think any of us has ever appreciated what actually happened in this country. Even as we talk about the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), I do not know what kind ... view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, I am giving an early warning that, as a country, we are joking. Even as we are politicking, we may be having a country. We may have a president or 1,000 presidents with no country. I wonder who will be ruling. view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: As I finish, I want to say something about the boundaries. I sat in the Sub- Committee that looked into this matter and I wish we could sit. One, constitutionally, there will be challenges in terms of which commission has the mandate for the first review. We have looked at those issues. Two, I think, sometimes, we are raising issues for others. I was actually shocked that the areas I thought had complaints, when the respective hon. Members came before the Sub-Committee, they had no issues. They were actually saying: “Please, do not give us a new constituency since we ... view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of delineation is not an easy thing. After a place in Nyanza was given a constituency, they were up in arms. I asked them: “Why are you up in arms?” They said: “If you curve us off, you will create a new constituency in Kasipul Kabondo. Then you will make us a minority there.” So, even when Ligale was doing this work, it was not an easy thing. I want to congratulate them. The far they went, they did an excellent job. If we had actually given them time without interference, they would ... view
• 11 May 2011 in National Assembly: I heard people from Central Province who were telling us they do not want any new constituency. They said if the neighbouring constituency cannot raise enough numbers, that is their problem. However, when we come here as a unitary team, we sing in a choir. We say: “This city has been left out.” Let us not play with the lives of Kenyans. view