Rachel Wambui Shebesh

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1311 to 1320 of 1324.

• 22 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Vote. I want to start by congratulating the Minister. In my list of Ministers's performance, he ranks number one, because his record is already showing for itself. He is also committed to his work. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to bring to the fore some of the issues affecting us, as women, and also as residents of Nairobi. I will start with the issue of women as related to this country's land policy. I would like to beseech the Minister, who has also been involved for so ... view
• 17 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to ask the Minister to look back at what the previous Minister for Local Government tried to do in trying to decongest Nairobi by stopping view
• 17 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: at Muthurwa. It brought another crisis. I heard the Minister say he plans to stop matatus from coming into the city centre. Mr. Speaker,Sir, does the Minister want to create another crisis while solving another? It has been proved that stoping matatus from reaching the town centre has not worked. Matatus are back into the city centre. Secondly, Kenyans who work in Nairobi cannot alight at Muthurwa and walk all the way to Community. I think that is not even fair. I, therefore, think that is not a proper way to go about the issue. Could the Minister tell this ... view
• 16 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am very saddened by the answer from the Minister. This is a sad day for Kenyan women. According to what she has said, it seems as if the Ministry has no capacity to implement Government policy. Is it then possible to transfer the department that is supposed to implement this policy from her Ministry to the appointing authority that she is talking about? I would also like to ask her if she has any plans of reviving the Gender Commission whose work was actually to streamline the appointment of women into public office. view
• 16 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me start by joining my colleagues who have congratulated the Minister for the work he has so far done in this Ministry. I rise to support this Motion. I must say that I share the dream the Minister has expounded on many times. I would also like to point out that the Minister has a very able Assistant Minister who is actually very well trained in this particular Ministry. Therefore, I would want, as we congratulate the Minister, to note that he will not do it alone without the support ... view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I rise to, reluctantly, support this Vote. I support the Vote reluctantly, because I feel that there are lots of gaps. I must say that I am very encouraged by the attitude of the Minister and her Assistant Ministers. Since they came into office, they have had an open-door policy of accepting a lot of criticism, especially positive criticisms. It is in that spirit that I want to make the following suggestions. With regard to the issue of lack of employment for the ... view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I want to start by joining my colleague who has heaped praise on the Mover of this Motion. Even last year before I came to this House, I noticed that our colleague always brings relevant issues to this House. I congratulate him for continuing to be relevant in this House. The Budget-making process is one of the key factors that is considered by Kenyans as the reason why we were brought to this House. However, I would like to concur with my colleague who spoke earlier that ... view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will take only five minutes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, through you, I would like to address the Minister for Finance. He has come out here clearly and spoken as a father, a friend and as a colleague, in trying to appeal to our good selves to look at him as a human being. It is on that point that I would like to advise him that, it is for the very reason and for the very people that he has mentioned - that is his wife, his daughter and his constituents - that ... view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have come here to support this Motion and I will not repeat what my colleagues have said. But I must say that we are in a Grand Coalition Government which was formed on a 50-50 basis. As you know, I am a nominated Member of Parliament and I have no constituency. My constituency is ODM. I stand here to support and speak on behalf of ODM that, when we came into the Grand Coalition Government, we did not come into a grand collusion! We came to work together to, at least, see whether those contested ... view
• 30 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to first congratulate the Minister for trying to answer the first question. I would like to assist the Minister on the issue of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF). We all know that the YEDF was very controversial. It was brought at a time when many of us believed it was more for political reasons than to help the youth of this country. I would like to assist the Minister because when the President opened Parliament, he said that he was going to bring the National Youth Policy to be debated in this House. ... view