Via Clarice Muloma Chavakali Kenya.
Article 97 of the Kenyan Constitution creates the position of County Women Representatives. It stipulates in section (1) (b) that the membership of the National Assembly consists of,
Forty-seven women, each elected by the registered voters of the counties, each county constituting a single member constituency.
What therefore are the qualities and roles of county women rep in Kenya? Why should Vihigans choose Winnie Majani she if the Usawa Mashinani mantra?
The Role Of County Women Representative In Kenya Guarantees Equality For Women
However, the role of County Women Representatives in Kenya should not (necessarily) involve providing or meeting immediate needs for women and girls. That’s not what the law intended.
It is not the work of County Women Representatives to provide or donate sanitary towels or to drill boreholes.
They should advocate and work for long-term policy interventions to find solutions to challenges facing women and girls. Using the above example, rather than donate sanitary pads, they should have the government provide them for all school-going girls
Has the current holder done this?* be the judge!
By playing their role efficiently, County Women Representatives can promote gender equality and equity. Usawa Mashinani.
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Their role does not also include the management of funds. Parliament budgets for the Affirmative Action Social Development Fund for County Women Representatives. It is similar to the Constituency Development Fund.
Ventures which this fund caters for include helping the recuperation of sexual and sex-based brutality survivors. Others are supporting the youth who have dropped out of school, vagrants and vulnerable kids, and nurturing youngsters. These the outgoing member has blantantly ignored.
Under USAWA MASHINANI
MANTRA by Winnie Majani, we shall not see nepotism draw its ugly head in our county offices again.
However, legislators should not perform executive functions, such as management of funds neither are they supposed to use familiy members as proxxies in discharging their evil schemes.
. Their role is strictly oversight.
The Kenyan Constitution emphasises the separation of powers between the organs of national and county governments. Therefore, lawmakers should not perform any executive functions such as management and implementation of funds. As we move into the next election cycle, lets vote for someone whose intergrity is unquestionable.
Nobody fits the bill in Vihiga county other than Hon Winnie Majani.
Winnie is a gem plucked from the corporate world and her plunging into the murky waters of Vihiga politics is meant to breath new life and ensure sanity in how we transact our business as women of Vihiga.
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The other roles of County Women Representative in Kenya as Members of Parliament are in Article 95 of the Constitution. The roles include budgeting (allocation, expenditure and oversight of national revenue), determining the conduct of State officers, overseeing state organs, and approving declarations of war and states of emergency.
In short, the function and role of County Women Representatives in Kenya is the representation, legislation and oversight (and budget allocation).
These functions can only be undertaken by a level headed person. Winnie is rational and motherly. We have seen how she traverses the vast country articulating issues with exactness never seen before.
Winnie or simply madam president is the right person for the daunting task of Vihiga county woman rep. Coming from the corporate world where hard work and excellence is what earns you a pay cheque, Winnie has risen through the ranks in the banking sector. This in itself is a clear manifestation of her ability to relate well with people and solve their day to day nagging issues.
Winnie will sort the enequality issues in Vihiga pretty well. The marginalized will find a mother in Winnie while the girl child will for once have a role model who is not a busive, not vulgar but morally upright.
Let us not gamble. Vote Winnie Majani and let us enjoy USAWA MASHINANI.
Clarice is an opinion leader in Vihiga county, a teacher and also runs Clarice Muloma foundation that takes care of the vulnerable girl child in Vihiga county
