Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I thank our Public Accounts Committee (PAC) here in the National Assembly. The allocation this year is based on the 2013/2014 Financial Year audited revenue. It is, indeed, commendable that the PAC has managed to work on the backlog of Reports that were pending and that we now have the very latest audited revenue used for the purposes of allocating monies between the national Government and the county governments. We thank the old and the newly constituted PAC. We hope that the Chairman, Hon. Gumbo, and the other members of the Committee, will continue with this path and even do ... view
• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: In supporting the Bill, I have looked at the allocations that we have done, in particular the conditional allocations. I think we are on the right direction in terms of conditional allocations. If 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
• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: you compare our country to other countries which have devolution, you will find that we are not even doing as much of conditional allocations as we should. Going forward, it will be important for the National Assembly to allocate conditional allocations for critical services like healthcare and education, especially polytechnics, early childhood development centres and nursery schools. Conditional allocations should also be allocated to water. Instead of giving the Kshs302 billion as a wholesome allocation, it will be important that much of the Kshs280 billion, which has not been given as conditional allocations, is given as conditional allocations by this ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the Bill and appreciate that the country has come to where we are today. It has been a long journey. The constitutional review exercise was not easy. That is why the 11th Parliament was left to determine and create a mechanism that would allow the two-thirds implementation as stipulated in the Constitution. The courts have spoken. The courts have given that mandate back to the 11th Parliament to give the country an implementing mechanism. I am very proud that the 11th Parliament has not shied away from that responsibility and, today, ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, let me also support this law as a woman who has, one time, tried to contest for a position in an organisation of lawyers. A month was given for the time for candidates to prepare. I put a bid to be a leader in that organisation. The surprise of all surprises is that the night before the election, some leaders called me aside and told me that I needed to drop my candidature; that my candidature was not suitable for the mere reason that I was a woman. There was not anything I had done; nothing unconstitutional; nothing ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: In the 2013 Elections, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been able to show that 15,000 men contested in the elections. About 1,000 of them were elected both at the national level and at the county level. The percentage for the election of men was about 15 per cent. A man contesting in an election in our country has a 15 per cent chance of being elected. The IEBC in the same report has been able to show that about 1,000 women contested in the elections of 2013 and 14 per cent of the women who contested were ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: law is gender neutral. For this particular elections and the last one we have had, it has been the numbers of women that have been lower. Maybe going forward, it will be the other way that numbers of women will be higher. The Bill that is before us today has been carefully thought out to look at the least intrusive constitutional amendments. We are not changing the electoral system. We are not changing the electoral cycle. We are not interfering with the constitutional mandate of elections as we know it. But, the law is changing in a way that allows ... view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Other than the Bill being the least intrusive, it is also the least permanent mechanism for nominating Members to the National Assembly. view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, we, indeed, agree that the National Assembly needs to have definite numbers of legislators who sit in it and in the Senate. Even as we say that the method proposed by the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill that we are discussing today is also the least permanent in approach, it does not require the country to set aside any permanent number of seats upon which the nominations will be based. The number of seats would be determined by each election as and when the results are announced by IEBC. view
• 22 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I am happy to support and urge, like everybody else who has spoken before me, that we unite as a country behind this law; that the Jubilee and CORD coalitions unite behind this law to give this country an implementing mechanism for the main Houses of decision-making - The National Assembly and the Senate. Even as we look at the two-thirds in many other places, the National Assembly and the Senate will in 2017 be compliant with what the Constitution requires. We are mindful of the fact that women are 50 per cent and so, if we were going for ... view