Sylvia Mueni Kasanga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: The Embu High Court ruled on 4th April, 2019 to outlaw all fees charged on issuance and filing of P3 forms. The ruling was a relief to poor survivors of violence who had previously abandoned their quest for justice because they could not afford this payment. This meant that most perpetrators walked scot free unprosecuted. In view of the issues raised herein I urge you to refer this Statement to the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence, Foreign Relations pursuant to Standing Order No.47(3) so that the Committee may interrogate and furnish this House with a report on why P3 ... view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: The Committee should also provide a mechanism for enriching the P3 form and effective processing of the document as well as encouraging survivors of violence to report their perpetrators. I thank you. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion brought here by Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve. I just want to thank Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve for being extremely vocal when it comes to her discourse in the Senate, fighting for the people with disabilities, speaking and opening up her heart and mind to her cause, and indeed, helping a lot of Kenyans and having their voices heard because of her presence in Senate. God bless you for your work. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: This Motion is very timely like the colleagues ahead of us have said. The statistics on cancer are very scary. The statistics that Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve has highlighted here, with an annual incidence of cancer closing in on 37,000 new cases annually and an annual mortality of 28,000 is very worrying. That is an extremely high mortality rate. During COVID-19 times, and we know what COVID-19 does; it is speeds up when somebody has a pre-existing condition and things like that. I can only imagine what the statistics look like at a time like this today. I thank you for ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Clearly, enough is not being done. This points to our governance. This is because we always lament here in Senate how wonderful we are at drawing up policy papers and other kinds of papers. What happens to those papers? They are somewhere gathering dust, and not being rolled out. The Mental Health Bill being one of them. I have brought that issue here. Yesterday, I brought another Statement asking about the national plan of action against sexual exploitation of children in Kenya. A plan that had a roll out from 2018 to 2022 complete with budgets, yet not a single ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: remission and fully recover. A lot of it has to do with natural foods and the methods of cooking that are simple, and yet sustainable, especially for the pocket. It was Sen. Beth Mugo who reminded us that our traditional our traditional vegetables, roots, legumes, beans and maize that our grandmothers used to eat. In fact, one of my aunties who was suffering from one of these non- communicable diseases was advised that whatever your grandmother used to eat is what you should eat. If your grandmother did not eat sausages, you need to remove them from your diet. I ... view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order 47(1) to make a Statement on the issue of general topic concern namely the abuse and maltreatment of children. I wish to draw the attention of the Senate to a deadly and continuous rising trend in Kenya where a large number of children are being subjected to various forms of abuse and maltreatment. In such cases, children are being exposed to physical, emotional and psychological, sexual abuse, neglect and child labour. Article 53 of the Constitution establishes the basic rights of children including protection from abuse, neglect, harmful cultural practices, all ... view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: children has worsened as shown in these statistics. Physical violence was the most common type of violence experienced by children and reported that 39 percent of young women and 52 percent of young men aged between 18 -24 years. Nearly one in six young women about 16 percent of those aged 16-24 years experienced sexual violence as a child compared to 6.4 percent of young men with intimate partners the most common perpetrators. Around a third of boys 32 percent and 34.3 percent girls aged between 13-17 years, experienced emotional violence such as being told that their parent wished they ... view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a Petition to the Senate on delayed adjudication and settlement of squatters on Machungwani land in Taita Taveta County after expiry of the lease. This is Sen. Mwaruma’s Petition that I am just reading on his behalf. We, the undersigned citizens of the Republic of Kenya and representatives of Machungwani squatters wish to present to the Senate this Petition on delayed adjudication and settlement of squatters on Machungwani land situated in Mboghoni The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the ... view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: Ward in Taveta Constituency of Taita Taveta County after expiry of lease in 2013. We humbly draw the attention of the Senate to the following- (a) THAT Machungwani area which is land covering 2,970 acres is among the ancestral land belonging to the people of Taveta given as a present to the British soldier one Captain Morgan in 1914; (b) THAT the lease was later transferred to Mr. George Criticos who is the father of Mr. Basil Criticos, the current lease holder; (c) THAT the leasing out of Machungwani land which made the rightful owners of this land landless in ... view