Susan Wakarura Kihika

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 May 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I vote no. view
• 11 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the people of Nakuru County, cognizant of how badly the economy of Kenya is doing at the moment; knowing that the people of Kenya have been sold a lie and knowing that the people of Nakuru County elected me to stand for the truth and tell them the truth, a country that is paying debts in excess of Kshs1 trillion--- view
• 11 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am about to vote. However, I need to make a few remarks. Despite the fact that my people have been sold a lie, I owe them the truth. I do not want the over 2.1 million people of Nakuru County to be misled. As such, with a bulging debt, our economy on its knees, everything being taxed, including bread and baby formula, I vote no to these excessive and unfordable BBI deception. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to give my contribution towards the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020. I have taken note that we have quite a few preachers in the House. If anything, I think we should be in a good place. The most important thing that sticks out to me is the process of how the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020, got to Parliament; both the Senate and the National Assembly. My opinion is that this is a backdoor kind of popular initiative through Article 257 of the Constitution. I have heard the very ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have heard musical and poetic justifications of why the country is pregnant with a constitutional moment. I call it bullshit. We do not have a constitutional moment in our hands. When someone tells us that the Constitution of the USA was amended 27 times, I would like to remind them--- view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the parliamentary language that is softer and nicer, we do not have a constitutional moment at this point. I was talking about the 27 amendments to the Constitution of the USA that someone talked about on the Floor. I remind the distinguished Senators that the Constitution of the USA has been in place since 1787. So, it has taken 234 years to have 27 amendments. I bring this up to say that we do need to rush to come up with a constitutional amendment. I believe that at this point in time, our country is ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Now, we can lie to ourselves and say that enough women will be elected so that those elected in the single constituency seats will participate in that. However, my question is that, is it guaranteed? At least the 47 are guaranteed. What we shall have is nominated women in the National Assembly. My belief is that there is some mischief in this Bill. Somebody somewhere wants to load the National Assembly with nominated women so that they can use them as flower girls. I say this clearly without fear because we have seen what happened in this House of the ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: However, I have an issue with the top up. According to Clause 13 of this constitutional amendment, there is a sunset clause which then does away with the affirmative action or top up seats after 15 years. What exactly do they anticipate will happen in this country, as far as gender equality matters in 15 years? I do not think the middle will have moved much. I think it is an exercise that will only give a little to pass this and then take it away in 15 years. We shall then continue having the very few numbers that we ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: is only the women seats that are traded around? Why could they not add the 47 to the Senate but also leave the 47 at the National Assembly level? I also heard some Senators here talking in a very condescending manner about the women in the National Assembly, who have the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) and talking about them only being able to buy tents and chairs. My friend, for the women in the rural areas, those tents and chairs and the bursaries they get from the Woman Representatives mean a great deal. The Kshs8 million per constituency ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, they have talked a lot about the oversight fund that should come here. These people must be visitors in Jerusalem. We have been here fighting for the oversight fund and the same principals who were helping them bring these amendments have not had good faith enough to help us get that. So, let us not give the bird in the hand for two that are in the bush. I propose that the women in the National Assembly with the NGAAF should stay there and then we add more women to the Senate because I also believe ... view