Abdikadir Mohammed

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 621 to 630 of 1092.

• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House notes the Quarterly Report of the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution presented to the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee on 1st April, 2011, pursuant to provisions of Section 4(a) of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and Section 25(1) of the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution Act, 2010, laid on the Table of the House on 6th April, 2011. view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I actually wish to start moving this Motion from the point where the Deputy Leader of Government Business just stopped, which is that for the fourth week since this Special Session started, there is not set a single Bill for debate in the House from the institutions that are set for bringing Bills to this House for the implementation of the Constitution. I think that is a very bad verdict on the institutions that are supposed to bring legislations to this House. view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: There are, in our set up, institutions which are supposed to bring Bills to the House and then the House debates those Bills. There is an assumption out there that the National Assembly is sleeping on the job. On the issue of the implementation of the Constitution, nothing could be further from the truth. As it is, this House has passed four legislations – a two in-one piece of legislation and three other separate pieces of legislation as far as implementation of the new Constitution is concerned. Those legislations were passed in record time. For all of them, the time ... view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Legislature has set up a task force to handle the Legislature. In this regard, we are talking about the Senate, the National Assembly, the new Standing Orders, the new Commission that will oversee the running of the Public Service and, maybe, even the country assemblies. It will also look at co- ordination, but that is another area that requires attention. view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, on reforms on police security, you will remember that on this sector, the Minister had set up a task force to handle that. It was headed by Retired Justice Ransley. It handed in a report that also proposed that a particular committee be formed to oversee that sector. That committee is currently chaired by Mr. Naikuni. That process led to about five or six Bills. We have been told that those Bills are in the pipeline. We need them to be fast-tracked and we are going to pay special attention on this matter as ... view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have the issue of public awareness. We intend to benefit from all those reforms. Really, we must benefit from those reforms. We cannot benefit from them if the public and all other sectors are unaware. For example, there is a Bill of Rights which is in place and which is active and yet, in all our security sectors and all our dealings, we handle human rights issues exactly the same way we handled them before the promulgation of the new Constitution. Why is it that our police officers, law enforcement agencies and the public ... view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, the Committee has set for itself and, therefore, for Parliament, a very ambitious agenda to see whether we can do all the Bills and not just the ones that are supposed to be done in the next 12 or 18 months. We want to do all of them before this House goes home in about two year’s time. In effect, our view is that on the implementation so far, it is not so bad and not so good. We, surely, could have done better and we intend to ensure that by the time the ... view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move and invite my Vice-Chair to second. Thank you. view
• 7 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me thank all the hon. Members who have contributed great and wonderful points on this matter. On behalf of the House, I undertake to take that information and the congratulations of the House to the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution. Since I do not have much time I will respond to one or two issues and then move ahead. First, on the issue of the debate on gender, I think it is a very critical debate. I do not think it ought to be lost in the very robust discussions that ... view