Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 751 to 760 of 773.

• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support this Motion by hon. Muthomi Njuki. We are aware, like you said, that we will be having a Bill coming soon to the Floor of Parliament, but I think it is very important for us to ventilate on this Motion. view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: We have a problem in my constituency. In three locations, we have got the elephant menace and we have lost a couple of lives over the past few years. Like the previous speaker said, compensation is really not coming through for very many years and we have had a problem with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) not taking responsibility in the form of making the fences. Where the fences have gone down, they will probably not bother doing anything about it until the people are asked to contribute. We are even being asked to mend them using the Constituencies Development ... view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think from the earlier Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, she mentioned that KWS was doing some fences in Mwatate. If that is the case, are there two sets of rules for doing the fences to stop elephants from crossing over? Is it a case where some constituencies will be fenced using electrical fence and some will not? I think that needs to be answered by the Chairperson of the Committee. view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: However, the elephant menace has messed up my constituency. In fact, over the last two to three weeks they have been trying to chase away those elephants. They have been coming to the road and going into farms and uprooting each and every crop which is there. When the KWS is called to disperse those elephants, it becomes a real problem because they will not turn up for one or two days and when they eventually do, the farms are in a mess. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 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