Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Okay. Whip of the Minority Party, you are recognised and welcomed to the House this afternoon. Go ahead. (Laughter) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for recognising me. I have two issues that I wish to raise. One relates to what you have...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Before I raise the issue that is of concern to me, I want to indicate that I might have bouts of interruptions because I am coughing a little. I think that there is an outbreak of influenza in the country....

On a point of information, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

It was actually a point of information; not a point of order. The Temporary Speaker (Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai) : I am obliged to ask Hon. Lillian Gogo whether she would like to be informed by Hon. Millie Odhiambo. She has agreed. All right, please, proceed. Thank you. I have...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I can see the House is welcoming me. I am getting used to sitting in the position of the Leader of the Minority Party. I consulted you on the side on behalf of Hon. Otiende Amollo yesterday in relation to the same Article 115 of the...

Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I just want to acknowledge that you have said: “The one occupying”. Gen. Zs have already told us to occupy. Why can I not occupy the position of the Leader of the Minority Party if they can occupy Parliament? This is totally in...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker for your guidance. I stand with a lot of respect and concern about what you have said. I appreciate what you have said that we can refer to both the Bill and the Report of the Committee. However, one of the rules of debate in this...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I do not know whether you are giving me an opportunity to speak or to inform the Member. She has already sat down. I just saw your intervention. You can proceed to inform the House. Well, I was informing the Hon. Member. Her talking seems...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity… (Hon. Rozaah Buyu consulted loudly) Hon. Rozaah, please, allow Hon. Millie Odhiambo to speak. Hon. Deputy Speaker, there is just a lot of excitement…

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. There is a lot of excitement concerning the on-going issues relating to the Finance Bill. As you know, our party is having a Parliamentary Group Meeting. I know your party held a Parliamentary Group Meeting this morning. I am sure our party will give their...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, you are helping him. Have you given him a chance or should I proceed? Allow Hon. Millie to prosecute her matter. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will proceed. As I have said, I support this Bill in principle. However, I want to comment on some issues...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What is your point of order, Hon. Millie Odhiambo? Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. (Laughter)

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What is your point of order, Hon. Millie Odhiambo? Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am sure you must have noted that we are almost on the seventh Chairperson, and none of them is in the House. Yes. They are not taking...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I will be brief. I know that several Members have spoken to the amendments on the National Youth Authority Act. However, I wish to disagree with them. Hon. Sakaja brought the Bill due to the concern over the issue of youth unemployment....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support this Bill because, for many years, I have worked on the issue of equality. Equality is ensuring that everyone is at par, while equity is about bringing those left behind to the same level as the...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I apologise to the Chairman of the Budget and appropriations Committee, who is also my Chairman. I do not want to interrupt him. However, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I do not think it is in order for Hon. Osoro to be physically making sexually suggestive gestures...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng’) : I have hardly read a clause, Hon. Millie. Is it on Clause 3? Please go ahead. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I have several amendments to the Bill. Please, could I be assisted with a...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I request the Chairman of the Committee to clarify the proposed amendment. From the current flooding, we have seen it is more effective where you have an intergovernmental framework on disaster management. It becomes problematic if counties and the national government work separately, especially with...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I know that it is a bit late in the day, but I encourage the Chairperson, if at a later date the Committee could reconsider and bring another body. I wish they had proposed an amendment. When we remove the inter-governmental body, with the crisis that we...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. As much as I do not oppose that proposed amendment, I request the Committee Chairman if he could consider adopting my amendment. This is because it seeks to include the Cabinet Secretary for gender. It is because of special considerations that are brought in the...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 14 of the Bill be amended in subclause (2) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (f) — Hon. Temporary Chairman, sorry I am not getting you. My proposed amendment is that a person is not qualified for appointment...

Sorry, Hon. Temporary Chairman.

Hon. Temporary Chairman, maybe, the Chairman did not listen to me when I was moving. I said, many boards usually have problems because of clauses like this one. It has become good governance practice not to get permission from the chairperson. If a member has a problem, say, with the...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I wish to support the Chairperson. Part of the things that I have been telling you about is good governance practice. I think this is very good governance practice, and I hope most of the drafters can pick this one. Once you establish a committee or a...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I beg to move: THAT, Clause 24 of the Bill be amended in subclause (1) by deleting the words “or otherwise in writing from time to time”. The reason I am proposing this is that clause 24 provides that a director-General shall be competitively recruited...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, clause 35? The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng’) : Yes. Do I really have an amendment on clause 35? Oh! Sorry Hon. Chairman. Let me check. Even when I am checking my own amendment, I want to say that I support the proposed amendment. I would urge,...

Hon. Chair, I am not too sure whether the zebra approach is actually on the proposed… He talks about gender equity, which I really support. But the (b) which the Chair has graciously agreed to adopt is talking of the zebra approach for chair and the vice-chair. So, as he...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 40 of the Bill be amended in sub clause (3) (h) (i) , by inserting the word “on” before the word “legislative” (Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah spoke off the record) (Laughter) Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 43 of...

You are not on the microphone.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. You have said exactly what I wanted to. There are places that are prone to disasters and others where they suddenly happen like what we saw recently. Who knew Runda would flood? The people from there could afford to go to an Accommodation in residence...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I beg to move: THAT, clause 56 of the Bill be amended in sub clause (2) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (b) — “ (ba) establishment of designated public convergence zones in case of emergencies’ It still speaks to the same...

Yes, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I wish to amend the schedule. However, in agreement with the Leader of the Majority Party, I will only move amendments (a) and (b) and drop part (c) which changes the architecture because we did not provide for it in the main body. Hon. Temporary Chairman,...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, sometimes, I make many amendments. I made this particular one when I was airborne with one of the clerks. She told me that she now understands why I had so many amendments. While people were sleeping, I was moving my amendments airborne. What they are proposing makes...

Thank you Hon. Temporary Chairman. I also want to commend the Leader of the Majority Party and Chairman of the Committee. I was telling the Leader of the Majority Party off record, but I now want to tell him on record, that he needs to encourage his Members that beyond...

On a point of order.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to raise a concern regarding the National Disaster Risk Management Bill. My proposed amendments do not appear in the Order Paper and yet, I sent them about three weeks ago.