Abdikadir Mohammed

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to second the Motion. I know Members of this House have very little to do with the delay in the process as far as the implementation process is concerned. The Members of the Back Bench who are in the critical committees have been, for the last few months, pleading with the other institutions that handle this matter to hurry up this process so that Parliament can have its time with this process. However, that has not happened. I plead with my colleagues in the Back Bench and I will plead with the House that two ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to read Standing Order No.111 because I think the perception that is created by that term “waive” is not the proper perception. Indeed, this matter will and must end up with the committee and we will have a committee report for this particular Bill. The problem was that we required two things out of the House for this process. One is to take both the First and Second Readings on the same day and two, the committee report is to be required before the Second Reading is taken. The committee is given ten days to ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, then I second! view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support the proposed Bill. Corruption has been one of the biggest problems in the country, but the problems in fighting corruption have been systemic. They have been systemic because each of our institutions has failed. Prosecution, adjudication, investigation, our culture and all our institutions have failed. While we strengthen this particular institution, and I want to speak to the constitutional roots for this institution which I think have been misunderstood especially in the drafting of this Bill. It is important to understand that we will finally slay this monster by ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Chapter Six of the Constitution, under which this Commission will operate, is very specific. It deals with anti-corruption as regards public and state officers. It will deal with private matters. It may overreach private entities and institutions. That is important. Our Committee will probably look into the matter. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: The other one is the issue of prosecution and investigation. Rarely are those two functions put together. In each of the best practice institutions all over the world, be it in the American system or the British system, from which we have borrowed, prosecution is the work of an independent prosecutorial authority. Investigations are done by a different arm, for the simple reason that you want to have oversight by an independent prosecutorial authority over the decisions and the work of an investigating authority. Rarely do you have those two functions together, because you would then go further and say ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, the failure of the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission (KACC) was not just due to failure by the prosecutorial arm. It was also a failure of the courts. We had a situation where the High Court, in one of its judgements, said that Anglo Leasing cannot be investigated or prosecuted. The court gave an order stopping anybody from investigating or prosecuting matters to do with Anglo Leasing. That was a failure of our courts. I was even going to say that, because we have had that failure of the courts, we do not go ahead ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Finally, this Bill and the Bill that we have already passed will share quite a bit in. It is for this Parliament to decide whether to have two separate legislations dealing with this Commission and its mandate, or to have one Bill that handles both. I think it would be more useful to have a central location for all the laws. I know that the Ministry of Lands has been working very hard over very many years to try and amalgamate all the laws that deal with the land sector, because it makes sense to have all the laws relating ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: So, probably, we will be proposing that when we deal with amendments to the other law, before we handle those amendments, we should take a decision, as Parliament, whether to amalgamate or to have two separate laws. If we decide to have two separate laws, we could possibly look at them in a separate manner, so that we can have more time, as Parliament, to handle those issues which will come later. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, this Bill somehow treats The Land Commission as different from the other Commissions. I think we should deal with the Commission exactly in the way we deal with all the other Commissions under the Chapter on Commissions of the Constitution – the way we deal with their commissioners, their secretaries and members of staff. On the issue of the staff members, there is a proposal in this Bill that members of staff be vetted. I do not see a very good reason for us going that way. Other than the commissioners and the secretary, ... view