Rachel Wambui Shebesh

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: I am discussing it because he has brought the Motion. So, I am just responding and saying that during that debate, when there were opportunities to fill up places in some Committees, who raised the issue on the Floor of this House, as women parliamentarians? Hon. Members can remember. We asked for guidance on the filling up of the positions of the Committees of the House and the Parliamentary Service Commission, following the promulgation of the new Constitution, which clearly regulates representation of women in this House. If you refer to the HANSARD, you will see that the substantive Speaker ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have said many times in this House before, political issues will not be solved by trying to manipulate the Constitution and other things. If you have a problem with somebody in your political party, deal with it in the caucuses in your political parties. Since political parties have ways of dealing with their issues, please, let us not embarrass this House. Many times before, when we had sensitive issues in this House, I had asked whether we could have the substantive Speaker to preside over the House. The Speaker had come here three ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, maybe it is just good for us to get it clearly, because I think hon. Chepkitony has asked a question, but the answer has not come out clearly from the Prime Minister. The reason the three Joint Committees took over this issue is because there was a purported cancellation of a contract, which became public knowledge and an issue of national concern. Therefore, I think whether or not the Committees took it over is not the issue. The issue is that it was taken over, the Speaker ruled, a Joint Committee was formed and there ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg the Minister to tell me, because she has clearly stated that this water is saline and has even had some toxins, whether there could be a possibility of connecting the drinking of that water with the cancer that has spread within this area and affected 34 residents. Could she connect the drinking of that water to cancer that is suddenly being experienced by people in Kargi Location? view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is on the same issue. I am not sure whether I am the only one who has gotten these messages, but I suspect that I am not. There are text messages of lobbying by a senior civil servant on the particular Bill, explaining why it should not be supported. I just want clear guidance as to why we get text messages, telling us to support issues one way or another when we do not sit in Government. We have never met some of these people on a one-on-one basis. They do not understand our ideologies ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, much as I agree that we must do that, there is already precedence in this House. When we started discussing this issue, the Minister himself mentioned the name of Mr. Godhana and many of us mentioned him. We finished that discussion with no question of whether we should bring a Motion or not and this is the continuation of the same. So that we do not push for double standards and what the hon. Member is saying is true, names have been mentioned in this issue. It has been politicized and the names are with this ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to first congratulate this Ministry because many issues that have to do with reproductive health of women have, for many years, been left without any Government policy or direction. Of course, you know the reason why this is happening; it is because we have a woman as a Minister and that is why we need more women Ministers. view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, issues to do with family planning and breastfeeding are normally considered by the Government as “those issues of women” yet, they really concern the health and development of this country. It goes without saying that the reason breastfeeding lost its importance is because the Government did not take it seriously; just the same way family planning has stopped being serious because the Government also just decided it was none of its business. That is why I must congratulate the Ministry. The first thing that the Ministry should do is to roll out a massive awareness campaign. ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me take my three minutes to say what I want to say very quickly. First, I do not agree with this House urging, approving and initiating anything that has to do with deployment of the army to an area of this country that has not been invaded by outsiders. I do not agree or support. Earlier on, the Attorney-General said that legally, what we are trying to do here is wrong. He even said that he does not agree with this Motion. So, who are we urging to act if the legal advisor to the ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope that my minutes have not been taken away by that. I will not be intimidated by issues of school children asking for toilets. We are asking for the security of Kenyans, and for women and children to stop dying. We are asking that if there is politics behind this issue, it should be dealt with. We are asking that if there are people who need to be arrested, they should be arrested. We are asking: Does the Police Force in Kenya still exist? view