Susan Wakarura Kihika

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: The IPU is one of the oldest world organizations. Indeed it is older than the United Nations (UN). Its membership is 178 world parliaments where the Members of Parliament come together so that they can dialogue, cooperate as well as exchange best practices. At the end of the day, they come up with some resolutions to be adopted by The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: individual parliaments. It help us move together as parliamentarians and also know what is going on across the world. The 139th IPU Assembly was held in Geneva in Switzerland. The Speaker of the Senate was the Chair of the Kenyan delegation which comprised both the Members of the National Assembly and the Senate. In the days that the Assembly took place, which was the 14th to 18th of October, quite a bit was discussed. The IPU Assembly has Standing Committees just like we have here in the House. Substantive issues are discussed in those Standing Committees. The Kenyan delegation participated ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: able to sustain it or is the cost too much? Do we need to continue borrowing so that we can continue building on these infrastructure? Once again, a country needs infrastructure in order for it to grow. We are able to ask ourselves those questions and determine at what point do we continue borrowing. We must continue improving our infrastructure so that we achieve in the industrialization in this country. We want to see our people moving from one area to another carrying out their activities. Those were some of the big issues that came up out there. There is ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: and grow up protected from violence. This was an issue because in some of these countries, especially war torn countries. Children in those unstable counties are not able to enjoy their rights. Many times, there is a lot of violence meted on them. In addition to that, they are being used as soldiers. The issue was on how to make sure that in our individual countries, our children are able to grow up in an environment that is free from violence. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the tail end of the conference, there was a workshop on how a good ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: promises made. We should also come up with ways of entrenching this; whether they be caucuses or whatever they would be, so that we are able to harness those relationships and get an advantage or benefits for our people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Kenya Parliament delegation to both the 139th and the 140th inter-Parliamentary union (IPU) Assembly and related meetings, pursuant to Article 7 of the IPU Statutes, urges the two Houses of Parliament to note this Report and follow up on the implementation of the declaration and resolutions of the 140th IPU Assembly and related meetings. In that ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and request Sen. Halake to second. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Let me first appreciate the great contributions that Sen. Halake and Sen. M. Kajwang’ have brought forth. The points are well taken and noted. Going forward, they can only add to the value that we bring to the table. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: Sen. M. Kajwang’ has talked about technology. I want to bring to his attention that he is absolutely right. That is the direction that the world is heading and IPU has not been left behind. When we were in Qatar, there were some countries that do not have very good relations with Qatar. Members from those countries gave their contributions through video links; video calling and all that. That is one of the things that I have seen happen. We sometimes have the Secretary General of the United Nations do the same thing. That is something that has been happening. ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: power is diluted because they do not have a gender sensitive delegation. That is one of the things that we can force parliaments to be cognizant of. As I speak, women are just as many as men. The census just came out, we saw that the women are about 51 per cent. There is no reason why we cannot have more woman at the table. We are working extremely hard to do so. As the President of the Bureau of Women Parliamentarians, that is one of my major priority. As far as the youth are concerned, Sen. M. Kajwang’ you ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in Senate: the East vs the West or the French speaking countries vs the English speaking countries. From there, I had to be elected by all the women parliamentarians and the committee that then elected me as the president. To do so, it means that they regard Kenya so highly. We also had a similar election in the last assembly and Prof. Jacqueline Oduol was elected as the vice chair of the advisory committee on terrorism and extremism. Hon. Patrick Mariru is a rapporteur and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has also been a rapporteur. All these are good because it helps put ... view