Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to congratulate Hon. Martha Wangari for bringing this Bill. I believe it is important that we give people who adopt young children of less than one year leave so that when they adopt, they can bond with them. At the moment, there is nothing like that. Even though adopting parents do not give birth to babies, it is important that when they adopt, the babies get a place to stay and bond with them. That is the only time they can bond. I wish the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to agree with the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I support this Bill. Yesterday, during the funeral of Sen. Mithika Linturi’s father in Igembe, one of the MCAs said that it is the Members of the National Assembly who are messing up this country and also devolution. view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: He mentioned Members of the National Assembly and talked about Punguza Mizigo and the issue of reducing the number of Members of Parliament and all that. I think he should have gone straight ahead to mention senators because they are the ones who have messed up devolution. When they go back and forth regarding the assent date, they actually miss the point. That is because the more we delay, the more we delay counties to get their money. We need to see how the money gets to the counties and how it is going to be used. Fortunately, my County ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I ask for your indulgence and the House‟s indulgence in discussing this Bill on interest rates. Ten minutes is a lot of time and there is so much interest. I request that we reduce it to either three or four minutes so that many people can voice whatever we have to say regarding this Bill because it is very important to everybody. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I ask for your indulgence. view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to ask the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning: (i) whether he could state the total value of unclaimed assets that belong to Kenyans and foreign citizens that are currently in the custody of both the Government and private sector entities; and, (ii) what measures the Ministry is putting in place to guarantee efficient and prudent management of the said unclaimed assets. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this Budget proposal. The whole Report is good but I think we need to interrogate the CS together with the Executive because the budget deficit keeps going up every year. We need to put the Executive in check because when we have such a big budget deficit, the end result is we cloud out the individual borrowers and they cannot service their loans. I want to congratulate His Excellency the President because on Madaraka Day, he talked about pending bills. It is very important for us to bring to Parliament ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I want to thank the President for his speech on the state of the nation. My previous colleague has talked of it not being strong, but I think we have gone far from where we were many years back. That is because when he graduated, after that there was a lull in how the country was being run. But that is beside the point. We have devolved more than Kshs1.7 trillion to the counties. That was in the President’s speech. That money was from 2013. What have we got out of the counties besides more ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to welcome the students from the school in my constituency. view
• 3 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: I join the Chairman and Members of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security in endorsing Mr. Mutyambai as the next IG. Born on 24th September 1964, he is just four days older than me. We were born at the same time. So, we are age-mates. view
• 3 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Mr. Mutyambai has very good credentials. He has been all over the country and the world. He studied in the United States of America, Australia and United Kingdom. Coming from the counter-terrorism unit of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), he is what Kenya needs at the moment. The country needs somebody who has fought terrorism and has done background checks on people so that we do not have a DusitD2 attack or another terrorist attack in Kenya. view