Margaret my dear, Where there is hope there is a way........However difficult, we must try again and again and must not give up........Ask yourself, how did our mothers made it to educate her children when fathers of 50 yrs ago were lost in the boose.......and women......??? Today those children some are Professors and PHDs and some are Doctors......It is because those mothers were determined under most difficult circumstances......Today Kenya and Africa has gone to the dogs and people are finding short-cuts to making easy money free from taking most fundamental risk to reject those who have sold us and made our lives unbarable........ and those easy money are hand-outs that have long lasting bad effect to our livelihood and survival and with equally severe bad economic consequences....Today, schools and health institutions are being commercialized for a few to get-rich-quick, unions are slowly compromised and are being demolished from existance......whose mistake will it be? How about if we do not stand strong to defend our Democracy for fair legilative policy making to make the Constitutional legitimate?......Who shall suffer at the end of the day???? Whose life will be made difficult???? and who will remain and be treated unfairly or be made SLAVES......??? Everywhere you turn, it is man made human losses, pain and suffering. Selfishness and greed is driving the engine for corruption, graft and impunity. If we truly must practice Peace, we must get to the bottom root of the master to our problems........if we do not, like cancer, it is spreading fast like bush-fire...... Corruption, graft and impunity has reached dead end.........it has done enough damage that it cannot go on and people of the world has woken up........It is not the will of God for creation that we suffer this way.........but, all must play by the same rule........and each and everyone must begin to do something positive; big or small, every move counts. This is why I am fighting very hard.......and I am encouraging each and everyone not to sit pretty........we have hard times ahead.......we must demand fair exchange of goods and services and with the utilization of Public Wealth Resources......which is why, we need Responsible leaders with Integrity.........so that, the Corporate Special Interest selfish and greedy of the world too shall know that people of the world want fairness and that it is the only way to Peace and Stability, with harmony to prosper Unity for common good of all.........Where exchange of goods and services involves give and take process in a conducive environment......... My sister, have faith, we shall overcome......because we believe and it can be done. Cheers !!! Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Wed, 9/26/12, margaret gichuki <Wams2006@gmail.com> wrote: From: margaret gichuki <Wams2006@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [uchunguzionline] Parliament MUST avoid nominating girlfriends and boyfriends at tax payers expense! To: uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com Cc: "Judy Miriga" <jbatec@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 10:46 AM Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... Look at the busy bodies in this clip. Judy my sister.I hear you loud and clear.Women must be recognized.My beef is they are shying away from the top seats either because of fear of the beasts surrounding them or the campaign money Issue.We honestly should not encourage nominations.That's not what the Constitution says. Look at what those free rides in to leadership have done to our country.? You are handpicked because you burned the midnight oil campaigning for your favourite candidate(s) and you allow yourself to be used as a sycophant because no one elected you to present them.!...I have absolutely no respect for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Women should wake up and move to mashinani for consultation.! That's where the votes are..ELSE............CHILL and go back to what you used to do before 4 yrs ago.! On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com> wrote: Maggie et all,
Answer is: Women, we must all rise up from our corners and bring the change we all need and that we must confront these chauvinism mentality of backwardness.
We have capable, knowledgeable and skillful women who are ready to serve but we cannot allow ourselves to be pushed out of leadership because of selfish simpletons ideologies that keep pushing women behind from their progressive achievement. It is unacceptable people....to make a woman a sex-tool for a man's success is stupidity in a low-level brainer...... Men who cannot stand women challenge have no business staying in politics.......We have seen like minded of these ugly men with low brainer in the present Coalition Government, they are the reason why Kenya is in turmoil and why the constitutional bills are not completed.
Should we really just sit and look???.....There are some men out there who are good and are obviously respecter of women, shall we not reinforce our support to confront this devilish attitude in order to get the Reform we all want???
We must demand that our democratic constitutional rights are dignified and are respected and valued.
We must condemn those twisted minds from the Coalition Government who have failed to give us good results we have been hoping for and get committed to Change we all want........
Lets keep a good fight people!! Let us fight this monster till we win and we must win.....and we must win big.....!!!
Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com Gender rule still defies Kenya's top law brainsBy NATION TEAM newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Tuesday, September 25 2012 at 23:30 In Summary
The Supreme Court may be asked to help unravel the confusion surrounding attempts to implement the gender rule that threatens to plunge the country into a constitutional crisis next year. The Constitution requires that at least a third of members of the National Assembly, at least 177 members, be women. The rule applies to all elected positions, including County assemblies. Since there is no way to guarantee women's election freely and fairly and since everyone has a right to contest, ensuring fair representation of women in compliance with the Constitution has become a problem. Yet, if more than two-thirds of MPs in the next Parliament are men, then the Constitution will have been violated and Parliament will almost certainly be disbanded by the courts. To prevent a constitutional meltdown next year, a raft of solutions have been proposed. One proposal is to remove the gender rule through an amendment. This is very unpopular with women leaders and lobby groups as well as the Gender and Equality Commission. Another idea is to have a normal poll, and if less than a third of MPs are women, make up the shortfall through nominations. The problem here is that the House will have dozens of unelected members. Besides, the Constitution stipulates that the maximum number of MPs in the Lower House is 349 and 67 in the Senate. This will also produce a bloated, costly Parliament. Room for nominations Some MPs have suggested that the 80 new constituencies be scrapped to create room for nominations. On Tuesday, the agencies charged with implementing the Constitution held crisis talks to try and find a way to resolve the Article 27 problem. Share This Story The AG, Prof Githu Muigai, Constitutional Implementation Commission chairman Charles Nyachae, the Gender Commission, Justice Minister Eugene Wamalwa and his Gender counterpart Naomi Shaban, as well as Parliament's Constitutional Implementation and Oversight Committee and the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee are in this team. Commission on Revenue Allocation chairman Micah Cheserem attended the meeting at Parliament on Tuesday. The CRA says the country risks losing billions through nominations if Kenyans fail to elect the constitutional one-third quota for women. (READ: Kenyans to pay Sh4bn as gender rule crisis looms) The Cabinet has thrown its weight behind the Bill, which would amend the Constitution by removing the maximum number of MPs to create room for whatever number of nominations required.
After Tuesday's meeting, Mr Wamalwa was asked to withdraw the Bill, which was to be debated starting on Tuesday, allowing room for the matter to be referred to the Supreme Court, with a request for a phased implementation of the rule. "One of the options is the possibility of seeking an advisory from the Supreme Court on whether this matter can be implemented in a progressive manner. "We want to be advised whether it can be staggered until we attain the threshold as set in the Constitution," he said. This would mean the number of women required in the National Assembly can be staggered over a period of two elections instead of being attained at once. The second option floated by Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo was for the election of two county women representatives instead of one, bringing the total to 94. "This is just to ensure that majority of the women MPs in the next Parliament are elected and not nominated as proposed in the (Constitution of Kenya Amendment) Bill," Mr Wamalwa said.
"I was asked not to move the Bill because we could not raise 148 MPs to allow the two principals to take it from the Cabinet level down to their MPs to support the Bill," he said. "Party leaders will be requested through Parliamentary Group meetings to lobby their members to support it so that when we come back from a two week break, we pass it without any problems," he said. Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta, and United Republican Party leader William Ruto have asked their MPs to support the crucial Bill. Reported By Bernard Namunane, Njeri Rugene and Isaac Ongiri From: margaret gichuki <Wams2006@gmail.com> Subject: [uchunguzionline] Parliament MUST avoid nominating girlfriends and boyfriends at tax payers expense! To: "Africa-Oped" <africa-oped@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "uchunguzi online" <uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 4:28 PM |
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