Rozaah Akinyi Buyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: In 2013, I contested for the seat of MP in Kisumu West Constituency, again against my colleague Hon. Olago Aluoch. Between the two of us there was a difference of 900 votes. I did not make my way to this Parliament because the list had already been given in advance. My whole point is that election is a political contest and we have strong people amongst the vulnerable groups who need to be brought up, and who put up very good shows in the contest, but do not find their way into Parliament. view
• 11 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I support the amendment because if the list comes after the elections there will be due consideration of the strong candidates who would have shown that they are politically capable to represent or be representatives of the people in this House. When the list is given after elections the party will be in a position to look at the Members who have been elected on their ticket and to identify any gaps or strengths that might be missing from the membership. The party then has an opportunity to say, for example, it needs a lawyer and out of the elected ... view
• 11 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: My good friend talked about the two thirds gender rule. We know that this Parliament has grappled with the two thirds gender rule for a long time, but it has not been successful. We know that the opposition has mainly come from Members who felt that we should do away with tokenism. If we do nominations after elections or provide the list after elections, we will pick Members who are best losers or who have garnered a certain percentage of votes to be included in Parliament. What this does is that when you nominate a strong person, she or he ... view
• 11 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I support this Bill and I thank Hon. Mutua for coming up with it for discussion in Parliament. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. 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
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I would like to thank Hon. Jaldesa for bringing to the attention of the National Assembly, and the country at large, this impending problem of drought. I come from Kisumu County, which obviously is not one of the 25 counties, but I know that with the climate change and erratic rainfall, the rest of the country is also going to suffer from drought. When you speak about drought, my mind goes to one man in this country who stood out about eight years ago and sent ... view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak about sugar. Right from the outset, I would like to say that I support this Bill and I would like to congratulate Hon. Wafula for coming up with it. As you can see me here, I am a product of sugar. My father was a sugar-cane farmer. Moreover, we are still farmers in Got-Nyithindo, Koru, and in Muhoroni Sub-county. As I stand here, I speak for sugar farmers in Chemelili, Muhoroni and Miwani. Those are farmers who have been rendered poor and unemployed because of the mismanagement ... view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: know and I am confident that with the reinstatement of the sugar board, all the rules of the farmers will be looked into. Just this week, there was a video that was going viral on social media. A video of a sugar-cane farmer and his wife crying after watching their cane dry in their farms and yet, nobody is collecting their cane to go to the factory. That is a family that has toiled and put all its energy in planting the sugar-cane with the hope that they will be able to reap from their efforts. However, unfortunately, like most ... view
• 1 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am not a vice chair but I am strong Member of that Committee and I undertake to directly give that information to our Chairperson, even if our Whip is unable to do that. I undertake to do that immediately. Thank you. view
• 1 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 1 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am not excited! Is the Hon. Member in order to make assumptions that men are not intelligent enough; they are people who can just be lied to even when they can see the back of somebody’s head is obviously not like theirs? They are just useless, gullible and believe anything. Is the Member in order to give such assumptions? view