Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Excise Duty on kerosene was not well thought out. The CS for the National Treasury raised the price of kerosene thinking that people will stop mixing it with diesel or super petrol. Unfortunately, it has become more expensive for the poor and in a way, it is not helping at all. It is good that VAT on Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) was removed. Unfortunately, by doing this, it will not help people to move from using kerosene to gas. We need to reduce the price of hardware such as cylinders or the Government to issue free gas cylinders to people, ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to be informed by my Chair for now because he is eating into my time. He can talk to me later, but he can say only one word. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my Chair has forgotten that SACCOs are not licensed by the CBK, but by the SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SSRA) and we need to put them under the same ambit because they have been excluded in the Bill. There is also the issue regarding the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) and the online forex trading, which is a good idea. On the Capital Gains Tax (CGT), if you have owned a property for over 20 years and, for example, you bought it for about Kshs100,000 and want to sell it for Kshs1 million, you will pay CGT ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: We need to rethink how CGT works so that when people want to sell inherited property, it is done fairly. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill by Hon. Mule. I believe it is timely. We need a framework from where we can control the system in which we have all the medical fields represented. The Biomedical Engineers Bill will go a long way in establishing structures and the way things will work. I like the clause that talks about the courses that will be accredited by the Biomedical Engineers’ Board. I hope that when we will have this board in place, we will not have a situation where colleges and universities that offer these courses are not ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The other thing I like about the Bill regards private practice. There is a fallacy in the Government at the moment that all doctors or medical personnel work for Government institutions but if you go to Government hospitals, you will never find them there; you only find them in their private practices. I believe this will go a long way in putting in place structures where private practice is separate from Government practice. If somebody defaults or goes against the rules, he or she should be deregistered by the board. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The other thing I want Hon. Mule to look at is the validity of the certificate when issued to someone. Clause 25 says that it will be valid up to the end of the year which is in December. However, there is a catch here because if somebody gets a certificate in September or October, it does not make sense for him to re-apply again in January. That would be a short time for a certificate. He could change that to say that it should be a minimum of a calendar year or the following December if somebody gets it ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: This is a timely Bill in the sense that we have a lot of money and resources which the national Government has allocated hospitals to equip them. A case in point is what happened about 10 years back. We got dentist equipment from Spain for Meru General Hospital. That was the time Dr. Nyikal was the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health. The equipment has been lying there for more than 10 or 15 years without being used because we have never had people who can handle the dentist chair and the other equipment. The equipment has been lying ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: If we have the Biomedical Engineers Board in place, it will look at all the equipment in hospitals so that they can be used well. The equipment the national Government has given to county governments, unfortunately, some of it is still in the stores. I do not know if we can get the Departmental Committee on Health to look into the possibility of moving the major health functions back to the national Government. A healthy nation is a wealth nation. Apparently, we moved too fast in devolving the health function. We need to see how we can get Level 5 ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On training of biomedical engineers, we need to see how we can train more. We thank the President and the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology for paying fees for 10,000 students this year in private universities. We will go far if private universities can be given money for training and we have more biomedical courses. view