Abass Sheikh Mohamed

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in the Statement the Chairperson should inquire into and report on:- (i) the capacity of the KMC to offset the money owed to farmers as soon as possible, given that most of the farmers took loans from banks and are now having their properties auctioned; (ii) whether the Government is ready to bail out the Commission as it has done with other State corporations like the Agriculture Finance Corporation (AFC) and the Agriculture Development Corporation (ADC); (iii) the plans the Government has to establish financial schemes which are accessible to farmers, particularly the pastoralists and livestock groups, to ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I would like to expound on the last issue, with your permission. Any time there is drought, money is given to the AFC to purchase animals from the pastoralists. Of course the AFC--- view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I asked for your permission to expound it. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you! view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report with amendments. I want to commend the Committee for looking into the key issues. If you may remember, in the past, any time there was Supplementary Budget, there was tendency of abuse of money. There was a lot of rush as we approached April/May, there tended to be a lot of unnecessary purchases and tendering. This has also been used, in most time, to misuse funds. I hope that the Budget and Appropriations Committee will come with stringent measures to ensure that these kind of tendering processes are ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another thing is that in most areas, village polytechnics have collapsed because of poor remuneration of instructors and other staff members, and lack of care. For a long time now, village polytechnics have not been taken care of. Now that there are at least some funds set aside for village polytechnics, I hope The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: that the counties will be closely monitored. We have very many pupils who have not transited to the next level of education. Out of the 800,000 pupils that sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) last year, only slightly over 200,000 pupils went to secondary schools. The rest have fallen out, and they need to be trained. Therefore, we need to allocate more money to the village polytechnics, so that those students who did not transit to secondary school can be equipped with skills. We need to upgrade our polytechnics and allocate them more money. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: One thing I want to commend the Committee on is allocating money to REA. As part of the Jubilee Government policy, every child in primary school must have a laptop. It is very important that we provide electricity to all the schools, especially in the rural areas, where the national grid is yet to get there. I wish to request the REA to minimise the cost of rural electrification by investing in the national grid, so that they can reach far- placed areas and ensure that we have electricity from the national grid in every corner of this country. As ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to see every county in this country having a Level 5 hospital. As at now, we have District Hospitals, which have to be upgraded. We also need to look into the welfare of doctors. We are seeing every now and then in the media that there is a heavy influx of doctors from public hospitals, especially from rural areas. Patients are being left in the care of under-trained nurses and only a few doctors, who cannot cover the entire needs of the various counties. It is high time we refocused our budgets to ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Reducing the size of the Civil Service is not a remedy to our problem. We have to seal loopholes through which money is wasted. As an hon. Member said, we need to take audit of some of these expenditures. If a Ministry is not able to absorb the funds given to it in the current Budget, I do not see why they should be given other money. They must be able to absorb whatever amount of money they have been given. It is high time we gave priorities to areas where money can be utilised properly. With those remarks, I ... view