Millie Odhiambo
Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona (born 1 November 1966) is a Kenyan politician. She originally trained as a lawyer, and has been a member of parliament since 2008. She was first nominated and later elected as a Member of Mbita Constituency, (now Suba North Constituency).
Quotes
[edit]- This amendment seeks to move that fine from Sh200 to Sh 200,000 and a fine of Sh500 to Sh500,000….Which Hustler are you going to fine for removing a notice off a car for half a million Kenya Shillings are you living in Utopia are you living on Mars”?
- Millie Odhiambo said, (NTV Kenya, December 8, 2023)
- If they are good girls they will never get the corner office. Be a bad girl like Millie Odhiambo and you will be the mother of this house. I am a bad girl and as a bad girl I am serving my fourth term.
- The Chief Justice is a woman and so is the deputy. The Attorney General of Kenya is a woman, and the President of the Law Society of Kenya is a woman too. This is historic and although I am happy with the progress we have made, in 2024 we should not be talking about the first women.
- We need very intensive civic education with the society, because we are socialized to accept discrimination against women even when you notice it. We have a good legislative framework for women, when I first got into Parliament, we were about 16 women in Parliament…now we are over 100.
- Just this week my nephew told me his former classmate took his own life because he had not managed to secure employment for three years. We have a lot of our people who have gone into crime, addiction and depression and that why the government must put its act together and find a way.
- Good girls don't get the corner office!
- I am proud of our youth, for the first time I thought of retiring because I have seen many Millie Odhiambos in the Gen Z, and that made me happy. I want to encourage them to learn to merge idealism and reality and they should not give up.
- Good girls don't get the corner office!’ MP Millie Odhiambo on leadership, youth, and the way forward Citizen Digital (August 24, 2024).
- Recently in Parliament I was told that as the mother of the house, I need to be a good example to young female leaders because they need to emulate me. Which translates to I have to sit at the corner and raise my voice a little bit and hope that I'm heard.
- Good girls don't get the corner office!’ MP Millie Odhiambo on leadership, youth, and the way forward Citizen Digital (August 24, 2024).
- I talked to Raila on Monday evening when he was with Adhiambo. I want to confirm that he said ODM needs to be united as a party.
- Millie Odhiambo: We’ve forgiven Raila’s health critics, but we won’t forget The Star (October 19, 2025).
- When I asked him, ‘Baba, how are you?’ he told me jokingly, ‘Amilo, I’m fine, in the morning I walked around. I’m surprised there are people who have already killed and buried me in Kenya.
- Millie Odhiambo: We’ve forgiven Raila’s health critics, but we won’t forget The Star (October 19, 2025).
- or those who killed and buried Raila before his time, because we are Christians, we will forgive you but we will never forget. For those who stood with Raila, we shall never forget. I thank President William Ruto.
- Millie Odhiambo: We’ve forgiven Raila’s health critics, but we won’t forget The Star (October 19, 2025).
- Your Excellency, President Ruto, I want to thank you. That morning at State House when you broke the news, I was the only ODM woman there among the political class. Before you even said it, I somehow knew. The longest journey I have ever walked was from your office to where I had parked my car. I almost collapsed twice.
- You told us to go and stand with Mama Ida — and I thank you for remembering her, as a woman, in that moment of unbearable pain. We shall never forget that.
