Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

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• 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
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: inspiring so that they can vote for their people? It is not possible. We need to call a spade a spade. I believe, to be a voter, you have to have in you the need to change the leaders who are there and you want to do something good for the country. But we cannot make voting compulsory and we should have a proper strategy on how we are going to encourage people to vote and not force them to vote. The Seconder of the Motion has talked about the cleaning of the voter register. Unfortunately, it is his coalition ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am entitled to my opinion. I see Hon. Jude wanting to complain. This Motion should have been brought earlier before we went to the final voter registration but by bringing it now, I am wondering whether we are going to extend the voter registration or we are going to proceed. As a country, we should decide whether we want continuous voter registration all the way through or we just have one month every year to register voters. We should have a continuous voter registration so that people who have IDs can register. Hon. Jude Njomo has ... view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Privatisation (Amendment) Bill. At the outset, I want to state that it is important to have leadership in this commission competitively chosen. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Privatisation (Amendment) Bill. At the outset, I want to state that it is important to have leadership in this commission competitively chosen. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, please protect me from Members who are consulting loudly. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, please protect me from Members who are consulting loudly. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view