Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 751 to 760 of 769.

• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: So, I agree that we should raise the compensation for loss of lives but we should not limit it to Kshs1 million. Kshs200,000 should be the minimum for injury. If a person is injured and he needs to go for surgery definitely Ksh200,000 will not be enough for surgery and other things like medicines and all that. For crops, we should have a minimum which should be based on damage done on an acre of maize or an acre of potatoes. Then there should be a timeframe within which payments for compensation are made. We cannot have a case where ... view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing would be to make KWS more proactive, to liaise with communities and respond to distress calls faster than they currently do. view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I wish to support this Motion and encourage the Mover of the Motion to make a few amendments, if they are not already contained in the Bill. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I wish to support this amendment. I am in the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and I believe healthcare if very expensive as it is, it can affect our people. With this amendment, I think we will go a long way to help our people. I would like to stress what hon. Bosire talked about. We did it as a Departmental Committee not as Jubilee or CORD. We worked tirelessly on this Bill and we want it passed with everybody’s input. With regard to Dr. Nyikal’s amendment, we are very comfortable with ... view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support this Motion by hon. Njenga and in doing so I think it is a very good Motion which goes to the core of the youth. I think the hon. Member would probably even make an amendment not just on village polytechnics. He should even add middle level colleges and all colleges because I think we need to train our youth. We need to take them off the streets so that they do not become hawkers or other people who have been chased away by governors and the county representatives like ... view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Seconder of the Motion talked about the chairs in Parliament which were made by artisans in Kenya, namely, the Prisons Department. We would not want our youth to go to prison to learn carpentry. They would rather go to middle level colleges and polytechnics to learn those skills. We need to incalculate life skills into the youth. The previous speaker has talked about mechanics and we should have a programme where we can teach our youth life skills. Girls should be taught knitting and stitching and when they are done with that, they should ... view
• 3 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I wish to support this Motion as amended. It is something that should be done very soon. I would like to talk a bit on the cotton industry which has been failing. Mahatma Gandhi advocated for use of cotton in India. He banned the importation of cotton from Britain. We need to be more patriotic by building our industries rather than exporting jobs. We need to think about EPZ. People get tax holidays and there is the AGOA initiative. People come in as investors, but as soon as the tax holidays are removed, they run away ... view
• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I wish to support the Motion regarding these appointments. I thank the President for nominating people from all the communities in Kenya to Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries positions. We are on the right path. view
• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: We are looking forward to these people being in office so that we can work with them. I also thank all the Departmental Committees for doing a very good job. It is just a formality and we should approve all the nominees together at once. view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to contribute as well as raise a point of order, because we are supposed to be in another Committee meeting dealing with finance. view