Dr. Tum Tecla Chebet

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Sankok is disturbing me. Yes, gender harassment is happening. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: We need a more equal Kenya by enabling the women to hold leadership positions. Women of Kenya are 52 per cent of the population and we have to give them their equal share of positions in this nation. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Many times there is the issue of glass ceiling where women fall in the lower part of the pyramid. So, we need women to be given positions of power. We need to see quite a number of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: them in this House. We are talking about an addition of only 24 women. The Government of Kenya will only spend Kshs282 million on them. Hon. Speaker, the work of MPs is to fight and champion for the rights of Kenyans. We have come here to legislate for the 44 million Kenyans who are men, women and children. In East Africa, Kenya is leading in most of the things, but in terms of issues pertaining to women and leadership, Rwanda is number one followed by Ethiopia. Kenya is No.26 in Africa and No.100 in the world. Therefore, I call upon ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I stand to support “Duale Bill”. When we talk about gender, we are not talking about women. Gender is a socially constructed definition of men and women. So, we have to demystify the thought that gender is about women. When we talk about gender, we are talking about empowerment. When we talk about empowerment, we are talking about women. When we talk about empowerment, we know Kenya is a signatory to the declaration on human rights. When you talk about human rights, you are talking about social inclusion; you are not talking about social exclusion. When you talk about human ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to contribute to this Bill. I was an employee of Eldoret Municipal Council for 16 years. I used to contribute to Laptrust and when I retired, I was given my money. There was LAPFUND where junior employees used to contribute their pension money. What is the fate of the savings of the employees who were in local authorities, county councils and town councils? What about their properties? Is this Bill going to address the monies which belong to those employees? If it is going to do so, I was wondering why the two pension ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill on regulation of healthcare in this nation. Most of the people in our counties are dying because of expensive drugs and medical care. I know of many people who have sold their land. There is the issue of giving right titles to the pharmacists. We need to know the qualified pharmacists in this country. We also need to know the enrolled technologists, so that people cannot use fake titles which do not belong to them, and people will practise as per their profession. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: There is the issue of continuous education of pharmacists. We know there are new developments of drugs. We need the pharmacists to acquire new knowledge, so that they can be of good use to the people of Kenya. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Bill on SACCO societies regulations more so deposit-taking SACCOs in our nation. We need to safeguard members’ deposits. When we do so, many people will deposit their money and unemployment will not be an issue in this nation. This is because we will have more people engaged when the SACCOs have a lot of money with them. We need to regulate those societies. We need to have directors who have minimum qualifications and are able to safeguard members’ deposits. We will not hear of misappropriation of funds when we have qualified people. The ... view