Catherine Lamwaka

"I am a married woman and I have children of my own and many whom am sponsoring in various schools including 23 girls and six boys. I feel I have a responsibility as a parent and a leader, when I come across a young person getting to do wrong things"

"There is a need for in-depth due diligence to present findings that can enable us to have a deep understanding of the questions of the balalo for a long-lasting solution to this issue”"

"We must provide the direction for an alternative means of livelihood than sales of land, our people should get into production. Our negotiations should focus on special affirmative actions on Agro- agro-industrialization and related value addition chain support to bring our people into the money economy."

"We need to address the root cause why people are selling their land, once we can dialogue and people understand then automatically the issues would be sorted”"

"Women who vie for direct constituency seats are targeted for abuse, and this has led many to resolve that the violence is not worth enduring,”"

"women are called “prostitute” and other names, told to focus on marital concerns, and generally put down and berated."

"Term limits will not take away the fact that women continue to face systemic barriers that keep them from participating in political processes and decision-making. I’d rather we draw lessons from other countries that have systems of affirmative action, as well as those without,”"