Abdikadir Mohammed

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 571 to 580 of 1092.

• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: If that is the case, then I withdraw my amendment to Clause 6 because it is exactly as stated by the Minister. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: THAT, Clause 7 of the Bill be deleted and substituted with the following new clause- 7 (1) The members of the Commission shall be appointed for a single term of six years and shall not be eligible for re-appointment. (2) The members of the Commission shall serve on a fulltime basis. (3) The Commission shall be properly constituted notwithstanding a vacancy in its membership. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, essentially, the Minister had proposed a membership which was fewer than the maximum provided for by the Constitution. In view of the number of elections we are going to be holding in one-and-a-half years time, and the fact that the new Constitution will in full fledge be coming into force, and the very different new structures that we will have, we believe that the Commission will do with all hands on deck. We believe that this is also as much acceptable as possible in the country at this point in time due to the political temperatures. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, this is a very vexed issue and you can be very sure that the Committee considered every side of this coin. We discussed “every which way”. We understand very critically what the Minister has talked about; that the Constitution just talks about one term of six years which will end very close to the elections in 2017. We considered those two and in the balance of convenience, we better inconvenience that side now, in our opinion as a Committee for the following reasons. First, we have just come from a very traumatizing election. The way, the elections ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I have been given some information which I found very useful. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, we really considered all these options in terms of the term. Unfortunately, the Constitution is very strict; one six-year term period! We cannot extend it or reduce it! We cannot split them into two portions. A commission is appointed for a six-year term. It is fixed. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Now hon. Lessonet brought in a novel idea. He said if the appointment was to come at the end of August, the six years would end after the elections of 2017. Then they can take up that matter. I think that is something we could really consider in terms of the appointment. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, the Constitution has taken care of that. Under the Transitional Clauses for the first review that 12 month deadline is exempted. So, the boundaries can be done three months to the next elections, even though we sincerely believe it will be done before those elections. If we were to appoint in September or August, the proposal that is coming from the Committee is that the Commission be given only four months to conclude that process that was done. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, the proposed amendment is not contradicting the Constitution at all. What the Constitution says is that commissioners can either be part time or full time. If they will be full time, they cannot handle any other job. If they are part time, they can handle other jobs. That is what the Constitution says. We want every member of this Commission to be full time because of the nature of the job that is being handled by the Commission. This is a very critical Commission. Indeed, when this House passed the Bill that deals with the Commission on ... view