Sophia Abdi Noor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many places that cannot finance their institutions and schools although Mr. Kimunya has said that he supports his institutions. The pastoralist communities have lost their livelihood to the current drought and cannot finance their institutions. If you are financing an institution then that is a private institution. We are talking about the Kenyan public institutions, that is, the public schools in which we have invested very much. We have used money from the CDF--- view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very right. What he is doing is private initiative. We are asking for Government resources to finance these public institutions. I am not saying that he is privately financing his schools. That is his private work. We are talking about public institutions. We are saying that public institutions are facing a crisis. I have given an example of the pastoralist communities who have lost their livelihood to the drought and are not able to finance anything. It is even difficult for them to get school uniform. I urge the Government to waive the ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support. view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 3 be amended— (a) in Subclause (1) by inserting the words “including a person undergoing a course of training while under supervision by a medical practitioner or midwife with a view to becoming a medical practitioner or midwife” immediately before the words “who performs”; (b) by deleting subclause (7). view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: The rationale behind this is that we have talked of a person who performs female genital mutilation, but we did not take into consideration those who go for training and supervision, and those who do all sorts of things when female genital mutilation is being done. That is the rationale behind this amendment, so that we look holistically at the performance of female genital mutilation. view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 5 be amended in the marginal note by deleting the words “genital female mutilation” and substituting therefor the words “female genital mutilation”. If you look at the marginal notes of the Bill, it says “genital female mutilation”. So, we are saying instead of that we put “female genital mutilation”. view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 8 be amended by deleting the words “genital female mutilation” and substituting therefor the words “female genital mutilation”. This is just a typological error. Instead of “genital female mutilation” we want to have “female genital mutilation.” view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 12 be amended— (a) by deleting the words “but no more than seven years” and the words “but not more than five hundred thousand shillings”; (b) by deleting the words “one hundred” and substituting therefor the words “two hundred”. view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: The rationale behind this is that we feel that seven years is a long time to jail an innocent woman who performed female genital mutilation; we feel that Kshs500,000 is also so much to fine a woman in the village. So, those are the amendments and we felt that we needed to be realistic in making legislation. view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I agree that she cannot be innocent. I withdraw that statement. Thank you. view