Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 681 to 690 of 1042.

• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank hon. Sakaja for donating one minute to me. I am also happy to support the Bill by hon. Sakaja in terms of its intents. I urge that instead of having another Bill with persons with disability and another one for the women, all the three of them are brought together under the same Bill. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: In looking at this Bill, we need to include devolution. This is not only a national Government matter but all our county governments ought to give 30 per cent of the contracts to the youth, women and persons with disabilities. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: More importantly for hon. Sakaja and all of us in this House - and I really regret that we are rushing the laws that we are making - we need to concentrate on value addition. We are still in a country that is not manufacturing. We are in a country that is consuming. What will the youths procure or supply to the Government? I think that is the question that we need to answer view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: They can just buy products from China and every other country and supply to our Government. In such a system, we will not be serving ourselves. I hope that together with hon. Sakaja, our Chairperson, we are going to spend as much time thinking about value addition and production and make sure that young women are not marginalised by--- view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am also very happy to contribute to that amendment in terms of capacity building. I think the country has to understand that this is easy and cheap access to credit. This is not free money and it is what we call mkopo rahisi . So, I am hoping that the capacity building aspect of it by the National Government is done in a way that our people understand. This is not money The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the ... view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: meant for sharing. This is money meant to be used for business funds. While I am on it, I also want to confirm that in Nyeri County, the County Women Representative and the Member of Parliament are going to work together in a way that we will no longer have gender-based violence. Uwezo is going to rescue our image in Nyeri County. Our women have suffered an image problem. They have been told that they beat their husbands. After view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: , there will be no more violence. Men and women in that county are going to work together. As a Jubilee Member, I thank the President and the Deputy President for starting this Fund. I also want to pray that this country will have no run off during general elections. All the money that is supposed to be used for the runoff should be used for such purposes. That every time we go for an election, we make a clear decision; we elect leaders like the ones we elected, the President and the Deputy in round one and use the ... view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I support! view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to support this Bill. I want to start by supporting the ten minutes for contributions because I think it allows Members of a certain thinking line to be able to articulate their issues. I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Law Society of Kenya, Erick Mutua and the Vice- chairperson, Renee Omondi and the other council members who were elected together with the Law Society of Kenya Judicial Service Commission representative, Prof. Ojienda. I think the Law Society of Kenya has continued to show a good picture of what a professional ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: With regard to this Bill today, we are happy that we are reforming what actually has been working well. We are trying to reach a better and a new milestone in terms of the next 50 years that the Law Society of Kenya is going to be in operation. I want to thank the Government, the Leader of the Majority Party and also the Jubilee side for finding it in their time and value to bring a law of this nature before this Assembly. As I support this Bill and noting that I am a member of that profession, I ... view