Abass Sheikh Mohamed

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: quarter, or even biannually and they cannot even provide drugs in time. Therefore, health services in the counties are almost failing just because these counties are not receiving their monies in time to buy drugs and pay for the services of the doctors and other medics. Social services, like renal issues, HIV treatments, and all these things, are now facing many challenges in the counties. The counties are employing more staff. They are opening more hospitals--- view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also join the other members to support the Report. First, I commend the committee for the excellent work they have done. Visiting 80 water companies is not an easy thing, knowing the resources available in this Senate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, water is a very crucial resource in our life. Kenya has plenty of water, but is always scarce to be utilized or accessed by people. Kenya also has the highest number of institutions that manage water. We have nine regional developments and companies in every county that manage water, but water is ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: The money is available from World Bank and the county is supporting, but the resources are not well-managed. The company is also experiencing issues to do with resource generation. Wajir does not have a water source, it has no rivers, it is landlocked. It depends on boreholes. We currently have about 600 boreholes which have been managed by communities in different parts of the county. The boreholes are run by committees and have now become a cash cow for the communities. Instead of paying money now to WAJWASCO, the communities are not ready to let the boreholes be managed by ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you so much. I wish to contribute to the Consideration of the National Assembly Amendments to the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (Senate Bills No.19 of 2024). Our counterparts have not been very serious on these issues. The funds for the Senate have already been reduced so greatly, and the funds for counties have been reduced. While the National Assembly is looking for more money for the National Government Constituencies Development Funds (NG-CDF), they keep on reducing funds for counties, the Senate, and other open institutions. Eighty five per cent of this money collected by the ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: council offices like Tharaka-Nithi County, Lamu County, Elgeyo-Marakwet County and Isiolo County. Some of their offices have not been done up to now, 12 years down the line. It is not fair for the Kshs528 million to be removed from the budget. Those people are living in makeshifts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue is the Community Health Promoters (CHPs). They offer very important health services. The CHPs that were engaged the other day have not been paid. They earn little money of Kshs5,000 per month, which is peanuts, yet their services mean a lot to Kenyans, especially in the ... view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: I am ready. view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, Sir. I beg to lay the following Paper on the table of the Senate, today, Tuesday, 15th October, 2024- Report of the Intergovernmental Relations (Amendment) Bill, 2024, Senate Bills No12 of 2024. view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Waziri, congratulations on the appointment. My name is Abass Mohammed, the Senator for Wajir, and I chair the Committee in charge of Devolution. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: There is a big concern about the delay in the release of funds to counties. It takes long, sometimes four to five months. As a result of that, counties are supposed to get salaries from the banks at a higher cost, with a higher interest rate. Certain reductions are not submitted in time and they are given penalties for that delay. I do not know what your Ministry will do as a result of the delays in fund release. There are also penalties from KRA and other institutions like the Local Authorities Pension (LAP) Fund that put interest on the ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: What is the Ministry planning to do to curtail the kind of unnecessary penalties that the counties are facing and why is the fund for the counties being delayed so much? view