Abdikadir Mohammed

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: That requires to every time refer to what the Constitution says. Two issues are important: One, the House, as it used to operate, has been saved, except for a few issues, and you have to go back to the Constitution for those few issues such as prorogation of the House under the old Constitution. The President now has no powers to prorogue Parliament. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the same applies to the Executive. The Executive is saved under the old Constitution, but there are certain things which the Constitution has let go. We are supposed to operate under the Constitution because we have only one Constitution. If we agree to the contention that Article 221 is operative, which is the view that the Legal Counsel of Parliament, which the Budget Committee sought opinion from, has, and the Budget Committee of this House is also of that view; if we are of the view that Article 221 is operative, which the Minister, the Budget Committee ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Estimates referred to, including Estimates of Expenditure, are supposed to go to the Parliamentary Committee and then come to the House as a Report of the Parliamentary Committee. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: THAT, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended by deleting the definition of the expression “first review” and substituting therefor with the following- “first review” means the review conducted by the former Boundaries Commission taking into account any outstanding work of that Commission and issues arising from that review.” view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a definition of “first review” under the Act. You will notice that the Constitution that we moved from had set up an elections body and an Independent Boundaries body. That was a constitutional Commission and it did finalize its work. The current Constitution, through the transitional mechanism, also gave power to that interim body to conclude the process and it did not. Now, we require to link that old one to the new one to finalise the work. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I think the amendment is good and it makes the clarification clear. The problem is that Section 41 of the current Constitution does not deal with that. So, we have to get an amendment to say “the former Constitution or retired Constitution.” But I think both amendments are useful. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, that, indeed, is correct. The former boundaries commission is defined in the Bill itself and the issue that the second amendment was going to address can be sorted out once we move to the Fifth Schedule because it is going to be an editorial issue. This amendment refers to Part One of the Fifth Schedule. If the Fifth Schedule becomes a new Fifth Schedule and Part One no longer deals with that, then we should be able to handle it through editorial or other amendments at that point. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 3 of the Bill be amended- in paragraph (a) by inserting the word “responsibilities” after the words provide for the operations, powers”; and in paragraph (c) by inserting the word “responsibilities” after the words “exercise of the powers”. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: This is essentially to include the word “responsibilities” as part of the Commission’s objects and purpose. You will see that the clause talks about operations, powers and functions, but we are including the word “responsibilities” also, so that the members of the Commission do not just have functions, but they also have responsibilities. view