Abdul Rahim Dawood

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• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in congratulating Mhe . Abdinoor for this good--- view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to congratulate Hon. Abdinoor and support the Livestock and Livestock Products Development and Marketing Bill, 2016. The previous speaker missed the point by saying that the board should not be formed because KMC is there. As rightly pointed out by the Chairman, this Bill has nothing to do with KMC because it will be under it. I believe livestock keeping is not just about meat, but is a means of livelihood and he took it wrongly. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Livestock keeping is very important for all the citizens of this county. It is not only the pastoralists who keep livestock, but also many others. With the board in place, it will not be a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: matter of two tribes being employed there. That is not the reason for setting it up. We have a duty to offer livestock insurance to the citizens of this country. As you can see, one day they are rich and the next they are poor because of drought. We have a problem because we have not been able to manage our livestock sector in a structured manner. This Bill will give us a proper structure. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: It is very disheartening to see livestock dying and, especially, for a livestock farmer when he sees his prized possessions dying. A case in point is this: A while ago, there was a farmer who had borrowed some money from me and later on repaid me with a cow. The cow could not eat. It stayed with me for two days and we tried to feed it on good grass and hay, but it refused to eat. Finally, we had to bring the owner. I do not know what he sprayed to the cow and it started eating. From that ... view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: This Bill is very important because half of my constituency on the lower side is near the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands like Tharaka, which is a pastoralist area. We need the board formed so that it will sort out those issues. We need the Government to establish an abattoir in Isiolo or Meru. At the moment, people transport livestock all the way from the Northern Frontier to Athi- River in Nairobi. By the time the animals get there, they are emaciated. The abattoir should be established in Isiolo because there is an airport there. It should have been there in ... view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: We also need to talk to the county governments because they do not see what role they should play in the livestock sector. We had abattoirs in counties and some of them are now non- existent. We also need to get organised on how we will be selling and marketing livestock products. There is a big market out there. We should not just be going there during the drought season to buy animals when they are thin. We should be buying them when they are healthy and the livestock keepers will get more money instead of middlemen. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: There is a problem with pasture as we have seen in the media. The problem is in Laikipia. The Government needs to think of how it will provide pasture. I would like to encourage the ranchers to give pastoralists pasture so that they can live in harmony. You cannot expect pastoralists not to enter your ranch when they can see grass there and they have come from where there is none. I would like to thank the Government for supporting the dairy sector because it is part of livestock farming. The Government has agreed to waive a debt for Meru ... view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: I agree with the Chairman when he talked about vaccines. We need vaccines to be manufactured locally. We should also manufacture all the livestock medicines in Kenya so that they can be affordable and have better quality. If we only rely on imported vaccines from one manufacturer, then that will not be a free market. As I had earlier talked about insurance, I would want the Jubilee Government to spread it all over the country and not just to the 14 counties which the Leader of the Majority Party mentioned and said they have already covered five. I believe the ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I do not know if I will be supporting this Motion or not. It is so ambiguous. It does not specify exactly what the Mover wanted to say. I do not know what the House Business Committee (HBC) was doing. There was a Motion which was on the Floor of the House on the Sexual Offences Bill which had one hour left and it should have been given priority. Even if we debate this today, it will still go to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to sort it out. Nevertheless, what Hon. ... view