Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: I support the Privatisation (Amendment) Bill. People running the Privatisation Commission are not doing a good job. They should be sent home. Privatisation of corporations have been done half-way. We put so much money into these corporations but our shareholding goes down instead of rising. In the morning during a Committee meeting, there was a Supplementary Budget of Kshs500,000 to be pumped into Uchumi Supermarket. For how long are we going to pump money into Uchumi Supermarket that keeps going down the drain? We must offload State corporations that are not making money because we will be wasting the taxpayers’ ... view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: I support the Privatisation (Amendment) Bill. People running the Privatisation Commission are not doing a good job. They should be sent home. Privatisation of corporations have been done half-way. We put so much money into these corporations but our shareholding goes down instead of rising. In the morning during a Committee meeting, there was a Supplementary Budget of Kshs500,000 to be pumped into Uchumi Supermarket. For how long are we going to pump money into Uchumi Supermarket that keeps going down the drain? We must offload State corporations that are not making money because we will be wasting the taxpayers’ ... view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: parastatals because people are at times appointed because of their political connections. For example, the former Chairman of LAPTRUST did not know anything about it. We should have clear guidelines on how people should be appointed to the parastatals and boards. The Government should do its core mandate and leave business to the business people. I support. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: parastatals because people are at times appointed because of their political connections. For example, the former Chairman of LAPTRUST did not know anything about it. We should have clear guidelines on how people should be appointed to the parastatals and boards. The Government should do its core mandate and leave business to the business people. I support. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is the very reason we say we do not need political appointees to chair boards and the Privatisation Commission. That is why we need competitive people who are qualified. Regarding the LAPTRUST, I still say that the chairman who was there was not qualified. That is all I wanted to say. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and I support the Bill. view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is the very reason we say we do not need political appointees to chair boards and the Privatisation Commission. That is why we need competitive people who are qualified. Regarding the LAPTRUST, I still say that the chairman who was there was not qualified. That is all I wanted to say. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and I support the Bill. view
• 17 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, let me congratulate the seven nominees of IEBC. I want to state I support all of them, even the Chair. I sat as a friend of the Committee when Mr Chebukati was being interviewed and I did not see any adverse comment by anybody. I do not know what Hon. Memusi is talking about. I never saw any memorandum. I believe if there was a memorandum, Hon. Memusi would have been in that Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs meeting. I think he should hold his horses. I am even surprised he, being a ... view
• 17 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, let me congratulate the seven nominees of IEBC. I want to state I support all of them, even the Chair. I sat as a friend of the Committee when Mr Chebukati was being interviewed and I did not see any adverse comment by anybody. I do not know what Hon. Memusi is talking about. I never saw any memorandum. I believe if there was a memorandum, Hon. Memusi would have been in that Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs meeting. I think he should hold his horses. I am even surprised he, being a ... view
• 17 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: biometrics. We need the new commissioners coming in to look into that situation. In my constituency yesterday, people who were born in 1995 and 1996 cannot register as voters. We need the IEBC secretariat together with the commissioners who will come in, if there is a problem like that, they need to give us more time. They need to extend the time from February 14th so that we can register as many people as we can. Meru County has got over 480,000 who are not registered, so we want more time. Hopefully, when the new commissioners are sworn in, we ... view
• 17 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: biometrics. We need the new commissioners coming in to look into that situation. In my constituency yesterday, people who were born in 1995 and 1996 cannot register as voters. We need the IEBC secretariat together with the commissioners who will come in, if there is a problem like that, they need to give us more time. They need to extend the time from February 14th so that we can register as many people as we can. Meru County has got over 480,000 who are not registered, so we want more time. Hopefully, when the new commissioners are sworn in, we ... view