Owen Yaa Baya

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• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: You know before a child is given a birth certificate the parents are called and told they must be vetted. You have a mzee wa kijiji, mzee wa Nyumba Kumi, a chief and very many people discussing the birth of a child yet, this is a fundamental right of that child. This vetting has also come in with something called corruption. This is because when these people sit down to determine if a child needs to be given a birth certificate, sometimes parents have to go a long way to ensure they grease their hands. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I am very certain that if we have a database, they do not need to look at anything. They just need to go to the database and know that a child belongs to so and so. Since the parents’ names are saved as Kenyans there will be no need to determine their ‘Kenyanness” using a panel to vet their child born in this country. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: So, we will kill vetting and it will be much easier for people who have always been looked at with suspicion. In my constituency there are people who were born and we know their parents and brothers. But when it comes to them getting a birth certificate or ID, they need to constitute a panel to determine the citizenship of a child. I think this is something that can be stopped by this Motion. 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
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: It is a fundamental right to have a birth certificate and ID. Your ‘Kenyanness’ should not be determined by other people, but by the fact that you were born here. Kenyans become stateless until they are registered. Statelessness is something that is very bad. You can imagine a child is born, goes to school and in class four the parents realise they need to register for an examination. Then they realise they have to prove the child is Kenyan so as to be entered into the NEMIS system. This means the child’s journey from class one to eight is a ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I gladly decline the information because of time. I would like to finish what I am saying. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I just want to say that Kenyans suffer walking long distances to register as Kenyans. In my county, we have large tracts of land. People have to travel long distances, especially when children are born at home. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I will do that, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, but I want to finish what I have to say first. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you for the information and I withdraw that statement and say that Barrack Obama is an American who became an American President. I was saying we travel long distances so that we can become Kenyans. Therefore, children who are not born in hospitals have that problem. view
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would just like to inform the Member that he probably read the Agreement partially. There is a 50-50 sharing of all proceeds that are generated from all those other activities that come in and the commercial activities. There is also information that he is leaving out, namely, that there are almost 613,000 Euros that will go directly to the Ngomeni community. There are other things that the contributor is purposely leaving out because of the position he is taking. It is important that he reads the whole Agreement. view
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My name is Baya with a ‘B’, not Mbaya which belongs to Meru. It is Baya which belongs to the Giriama. At the outset, I want to say that disaster preparedness is very important. I want to thank Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah for this Bill. We fail mostly because we do not prepare for disasters. Disasters will come, but what about preparedness? I hope this Bill will take care of this as we move to the Committee of the whole House, where we will deeply look into preparedness. I want to say this. Last Friday, ... view