Dr. Pamela Awuor Ochieng

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, allow me also to correct one Hon. Member who is accusing the women representatives of not helping the Uwezo Fund to support women in the grassroots. The truth of the matter is that, it is the constituency Members who are patrons of that Fund. In fact, most of the time, they have chased away the committees made by the women representatives. The Uwezo Fund is not directly under the women representatives. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Let us not misinform the public. view
• 10 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on my own behalf, that of my family, the entire Migori County and all the children who are of my age, I congratulate and salute the fallen hero because of the milk that he gave us. I am a doctor today. Secondly, I salute Moi for standing strong as a leader. In 1999, there was this strong wave of wanting to legalise abortion and prostitution in Kenya and Moi stood firm to protect the woman against the pain. I will remember him forever for this and his kindness and generosity towards children from poor families and marginalised areas. ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this Bill. I totally want to agree with the Committee for coming up with it. I think by and large I support it. Even when you were asking me to relax the truth of the matter is that I was very much relaxed. Except, I was concerned because the Hon. Member who was speaking at that point was claiming that the 47 women have been given free seats. I do not think this is the truth because campaigning in a whole county without enough resources is ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I concur with the Members who have spoken before me and said things which need to be looked at in this proposal like the definition or clear instructions as who the SIGs are. Most of the time we have observed in Kenya when there is an option, possibility of supporting or encouraging a given group of people to do something then, all over sudden everybody becomes a SIG. Therefore, this amendment must be clear enough and tell us exactly who the SIGs are. view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: When we are talking of minorities I have an example of my beloved MP for Suna East who has been mentioned as an example of a minority group in Migori. I think some of these definitions are misinformed. If I was to give you the statistics of Migori County, the community The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: he comes from and the numbers of those residing in that county, then you can dismiss the idea they are not really a minority. view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Over the years, I have learnt that some of these wordings we use like minority, disadvantaged and SIGs are never clear and have been subjected to a lot of abuse. Anyone person can wake up and coin some story claiming they are disadvantaged or marginalised in one way or another. I am here to submit to the House that in those communities which are considered majority there are cases where somebody is really disadvantaged. For example, we have heard of cases where leaders are not elected because they lack the financial muscle to mobilise masses and sometimes fail to give ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I wish as we propose the enactment of this Bill to interpret the operationalisation of Article 100 of our Constitution, these definitions are made very clear. We are here as women and we know as we stand here we are not crying like babies as though women are incapable. We know we are very capable, but we have had a very patriarchal state where elections and things that go with it are so violent and male oriented. Most of the time, women want to do things in an honourable way, disciplined and righteous manner, sometimes we have debated and said, ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: For example, looking at our counties, right now majority of the Governors are male. Yet, we know we have very capable women in this nation who can become Governors but because resources are not in our hands most of the time we become marginalised. With that in mind, we cannot rule out the question of women being supported by the laws and policies which can bring many of them to positions of authority. Hon. Speaker, even as we talk about marginalised areas, you will agree with me that devolution serves as an equaliser. Therefore, when we are debating such a ... view