Kirinyaga Woman Rep Jane Njeri Maina at a church service in Mwiki, Kasarani on Sunday, December 8, 2024.
Kirinyaga Woman Representative Jane Njeri Maina has been ranked the most vocal youth speaker in the National Assembly for the year 2024.
A Parliamentary scorecard report released by Mzalendo put the MP ahead of her peers having contributed to debates and other issues of national importance 37 times.
Njeri was followed by Nandi Woma representative Cynthia Muge who spoke 22 times.
Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunj, Mwingi West MP Charles Nguna and Yatta MP Basil Robert Ngui tied third spot having contributed to motions and debates 20 times.
Mzalendo is a Kenyan non-partisan Parliamentary Monitoring Organisation (PMO) that promotes open, inclusive and accountable Parliaments across Kenya and Africa.
The performance was exclusively determined by the number of times individual MPs speak in Parliament (speech counts) and as captured in the Parliamentary Hansard, the official Parliamentary record.
“Upon collation of all the Hansards for a particular session a calendar year from February to December-the speech counts for each member are generated by Mzalendo’s word-scraper which captures the speech frequencies based on the Hansard entries,” Mzalendo said.
“To ensure that we only rank based on substantive contributions, we also do a manual verification of the Hansard entries to ascertain the automatically generated counts. The information is also automatically generated on our website in a cumulative manner.”
The rankings cover only plenary proceedings, whose information is readily available to the public.
"Information on committees’ proceedings is not as readily available. The limited access thus makes it hard to incorporate them into the rankings," Mzalendo stated in its report.
The Parliamentary Scorecard is an annual ranking of performance by the Members of Parliament (MPs)-both the National Assembly and the Senate.
First published in 2014, the ranking is strictly based on the performance of the MPs inside the Parliament and more specifically in the plenary.
It does not consider the engagements of MPs outside Parliament.
