Dr. Naomi Shaban

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move that the Committee does report to the House its consideration of the Community Land Bill, No. 45 of 2015 up to Clause 21 and its approval thereof with amendments and seek leave to sit again. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House does agree with the Committee in the said Report. I also request Hon. Sakuda to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to speak on The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill . I also add my voice to congratulate the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Aden Duale for bringing this very important Constitution (Amendment) Bill which has been standing for along time awaiting us to debate and deliberate on it. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: This has been a thorny issue, in the sense that the Constitution is very clear that any elective body or appointment must include both genders and should not surpass the two-thirds gender rule. This has been an issue that has been canvassed for a long time. It is not a good policy for people to be sitting in this August House and discussing issues when more than half of the population which is women is not involved because most of the membership happens to be of the male gender. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: This can happen either way because I know it is not easy to force people to elect members from either gender. It has not been easy even in very old democracies. This time round with the affirmative action seats, it was possible for us to have special seats for women and 47 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: women came through that route. Even with the improvement in the number of elected women on the affirmative action seat, we still fall short of the required numbers. The Constitution talks about 33 per cent of this august House being made up of women yet they are slightly less than 20 per cent. view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: This Bill comes as a result of an advisory opinion that was given by the Supreme Court, the highest body which interprets the law. It also comes in following several interventions by the Judiciary. It is high time we looked at it very seriously. I am appealing to all my colleagues that we need to do something about the constitution of this august House. The law is very clear in Article 177 which refers to county assemblies and they have been given an opportunity to fill in the gender which has been left out. This is by making sure that ... view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, looking at it, there is still a small shortfall in the membership of the Senate but the membership of the National Assembly needs to be looked at seriously as we seek a way forward. This is the only way out to have this constitutional amendment. Most people would want to refer to women as joyriders who want to come here through an easy way. That is not the case. It is not easy for women to be elected due to the cultural and traditional background where women were not meant to be leaders. Over the years, ... view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: I have no doubt that in the coming general election we will have more members of the female gender being elected from the constituency level. If so, then most likely, the party list will not be as long as people are anticipating it to be. Since we have been going from strength to strength, as you are aware, this is the third time I have been elected. Being elected the third time, I have seen the numbers grow. We have not been going backwards in increasing our numbers. As we make decisions about this country, it is important to have ... view