Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

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• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: just thinking about how I will get a job in my county; I am thinking about a job in EA and Africa. So this integration in the EA will help us to fight the problems in our country. In Kenya, we have become very insular. We only think about our counties; we only think about our tribal problems; we only think about ourselves when there is a bigger world, bigger markets and bigger frontiers to be concurred. When we become the EAC, properly so called, integrated, and all the pillars working, we get better bargaining power in the global economy; ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Allow me to also contribute to this discussion on appearance before the House by Cabinet Secretaries. Let me start by thanking the Assembly here for having allowed the Nyeri Members of the County Assembly to join and be part of the Speaker’s Gallery and to watch this debate. Indeed, we are hoping that after this, the county assemblies will follow suit. The county executives will also have to go the same way that the Cabinet Secretaries are meant to go. When we start with the question of accountability as a national value, in the Constitution that ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Allow me to address the question of national unity. We are a National Assembly. Allow me also to mention here that during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting that was held recently, the Continent of Africa did regret losing Dr. Shija from Tanzania. We send our condolences and regret that our great son passed on. We discussed the question of Mandera and the issue of having a buffer zone or a security cordon in our country. We have got, as the National Assembly, to promote national unity and deal with that issue. It cannot be that Members from Mandera County go ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am truly happy that the House is able to debate the Bill on Protection Against Domestic Violence today. Indeed, this is a Bill that has been long coming. We are glad that the Eleventh National Assembly is able to debate. This is really commendable for our country. I appreciate that we have come to the stage at which we have come. I am happy as the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that the Committee spent a lot of time. If we have ever had a tussle in terms of a ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: One of the best compromises that the Committee has come to is that this Bill comes to the Floor after the Marriage Bill and the Matrimonial Property Bill. In cleaning the Bill, the Committee has decided to make a choice that members of our country need to get into proper marital relationships so that they can be availed of the protection against domestic violence. We will be asking, as we pass this Bill, that men and women of our country contract their marriages properly. After they have done that, then those marriages must be free of violence so that we ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as has been said by the Mover, the Bill protects men, women, children and young people. The Bill basically protects everybody that needs protection as far as domestic violence is concerned. The statistics have been very sad. We are aware of women who have been unable to go to work as a consequence of domestic violence. We are also aware of – speaking as somebody from Nyeri County – men who have been unable to go to the farm because of domestic violence problems. So, as we pass this Bill, we are aware of the economic strain that ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: In my own county; Nyeri, we have really suffered. Some of us are unmarried not because we are not good women but because the rumour has gone out there that if you want to marry a woman from Nyeri, you first buy a helmet. After that, you join view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: and then you also leave some money for the media so that when you are beaten they can report this. We want to put a stop to all those stories. view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we indeed have very good women in Nyeri who stay married and do not beat their husbands. If any of those women are available then this Bill will also take care of them and stop any violence in our families. In the Committee, we had very interesting discussions on African families. It was really regrettable that we have men in our society who think that it is African to beat your wife. There is nothing African about that. Our African cultures actually protected their women. The reason why we are here 1000 years after the discovery of man ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The Bill is covered under Article 45 on the family protection. Again, the country has chosen to develop from the family unit; that the basic unit of society is a family. For that family to then be a proper basic unit of our society, it must be violence free. So, this Bill will ensure that the families that we have that are the basic units of the society; that our societies cannot develop until the family develops, that family will develop and become progressive when it has no violence. When we have children who go to school up to Form ... view