Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Lastly, the National Land Commission (NLC) and the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning should look into this matter to finalise, if there were any land transactions that had to be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: done. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has already been directed on who will be held responsible. view
• 9 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move the Motion. I hope that my brother, Hon. Hire, who is a member of this Committee, will second it very briefly, so that we can finalise it. view
• 9 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I thank every single one of you here. It has truly been a beautiful journey. Most importantly, it has been a journey of learning. As I beg to reply, I thank every one of you for the accolades that you have showered me with. This was not a one man army. I would not have been able to do this if it was not for the support of my colleagues, the members of staff who were attached to my Committee and definitely the secretariat, the Clerk’s Office and the Speaker for ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, very much, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: The Exit Report of the Public Investments Committee for the 12th Parliament (2017-2022). view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I know majority of Members here are waiting for the next item on the Order Paper, which I appreciate because they are very important amendments. I, however, want to give the genesis of how important this particular Report is. I again, insist on three particular State Corporations: One, is Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen). As I reply I want Members to understand the in-depth of this. We have a State corporation that has geothermal wealth but the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, who is in charge of giving authority for that particular State Corporation to supply power to ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Secondly, is the issue of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). It had two matters in particular: (1) The Lamu Port – a very grand and noble idea. What however, ended up happening is that the Ministry decided to do procurement in the middle of it. They gave a file to KPA which is not aware how procurement was done or who the bidders were. They were just given a document and told to continue with implementation that was started by the Ministry. It now begs the question as to whether KPA acted as an autonomous body in this particular matter. ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: investigate this, and get to the bottom of it, look at the appendixes that we have attached they will see that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) had three contracts: the loan, which no one has been able to see; an agreement between KPA and Kenya Railways and an agreement between KPA, Kenya Railways and China Exim Bank. This is why the Port of Mombasa is facing a threat. Amongst the clauses that are there and I say this with a lot of passion considering that today is my second-last day being a Member of Parliament sitting in the Chambers, they ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Secondly, they were told that failure to bring cargo would mean that they would have to pay Kenya Railways a certain amount of money. In the process, what happened is that they signed, and in the words that were used in that contract, arbitration was to be done in Beijing. They signed off all rights, including sovereign rights. We are saying that we saw this and we have evidence to that effect. For the record, the Cabinet Secretary who signed this particular document, and it is important I mention is Mr. Rotich. view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Ichung’wah, instead of shouting, please listen. There was no board approval that was ever shown to this Committee; there was no ministerial approval that was provided and there was no Attorney General’s concurrence that was provided as well. Mr. Gichiri Ndua, the then Managing Director… As I speak, we are hearing through the grapevine… I am glad that this House is going to pass this because there was a time when it was politically correct for others to be able to sign off. Today, we are having a change of guard. I have my preference on who will be ... view