Christine Oduor Ombaka

Hon. Dr Christine Ombaka (Siaya County ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to greet the students from Lwak Girls…

Hon. Dr Christine Ombaka (Siaya County ODM) I acknowledge their presence and I want to encourage them by telling them that the sky is the limit. Anybody can reach anywhere. Just as I am in Parliament today, in future, they can also be in Parliament. I know Lwak Girls has...

Hon. Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to eulogise Prof Ngugi. He was my lecturer at the University of Nairobi where I took literature. Prof Ngugi, Okot p’Bitek and Micere Mugo were our lecturers whom we really admired. This is because of the...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to support what has been said by other Members. The security of our young people who travel abroad to seek employment is extremely critical. We have witnessed cases where some of them returned in coffins but...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I would like to support my colleague and friend, Hon. Atandi, who also comes from Siaya, where I am the Woman Representative. He is one of the Members from there. I support this...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. My contribution would be very short through a story. Recently, I was giving out bursaries to students and while doing so, I gave them some inspirational talk. I told them that...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) My story continues. When I asked why they were laughing, they said it is a miserable job and questioned who can possibly be a police officer in this day and age? They laughed at him because they associated them with suffering, working under...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to what is very important in our lives; a Bill that deals with culture and definition of culture. What is culture? It is a way of life as lived by a...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Yes, it is me.

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you for giving me this opportunity. Gender-based violence has been with us for years, from time immemorial. We thought it would be eradicated with time. Traditionally, women were looked down upon. They were trodden on. They were beaten up, insulted and mistreated....

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Amendment Bill because it is good for the country. If planting of eucalyptus trees is one of the causes that affect our water, it is better to sacrifice...

Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka (Siaya County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. This is a wonderful Bill. We congratulate Hon. Owino for bringing it here. Healthcare in this country is wanting. It is very weak. We complain so many times that it is...