Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Sep 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The committees that we chair have been mentioned. As a Committee, we have only been constituted for about six months. The level of corruption in those State corporations has been so intricate and complex. I am glad that my brothers, Hon. Duale and the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, agree. People need to “fry” and “burn” to set an example that corruption is not allowed. When we bring those reports to the House, we hope that the Members will show the same enthusiasm so that we have zero levels of corruption in this country ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I heard the Chairperson trying very hard to justify this. He claims that betting and gaming companies have failed to support sports. It would have been prudent for this amendment to provide that instead of 35 per cent, it comes down to 15 per cent and thereafter 20 per cent is set aside specifically for those sporting institutions. That never happened. He has even gone ahead and he is even telling us that… The Committee has failed to say that there could be a possibility of gaining more taxes by actually reducing. Natural laws ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In seconding the re-committal by Hon. Junet, it will be very unfortunate for something as important as ensuring that the normal mwananchi is not being overburdened by taxation by virtue of a typo error. I congratulate Hon. Junet for ensuring that there is not going to be any fuel taxation. I urge the whole House to be here to pass that recommittal. Thank you. I second. view
• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I wish to confirm that Hon. Kutuny was with us today and he provided a lot of in-depth information. We were together with representatives of the Office of the Auditor-General. The report the Office of the Auditor-General has prepared is more of a skeleton, because the information that Hon. Kutuny has been able to present to the Committee today has more flesh in it. We had planned and we even invited the Commissioner-General to appear before the Committee this coming Tuesday. However, he has written to us and requested that he comes on the ... view
• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: possibility where Parliament could put on hold this system from going on until further on. I have informed him, and I will request the Clerk, that the letter that will be sent to the Commissioner- General is that the Committee’s advice is that this be put on hold until that report is adopted by Parliament. We stand guided on the way forward on this particular matter. However, I do stand with Hon. Kutuny; that, on the face value of whatever we have, it is imperative that KRA does not surcharge Kenyans this tax, which is going to be a big ... view
• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to pass some information to my fellow Chair. I was a member of the last PIC of the 11th Parliament. When KRA raised this matter and realised that there was a big blunder, they did bring a request for it to go to the Committee on Delegated Legislation. However, the matter was brought at a time when Parliament was dissolved. We did not have Members at that particular moment. Hon. Speaker, I stand to be corrected but that is the information that I have. I have not even seen the document but today ... view
• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this is something that I have raised with you and I am hoping that this House needs to set an example. When we see things are hefty like this and people are breaking laws to this magnitude, please, do allow us to invite part of the rightful friends of the Committee. We would like to set an example by inviting the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to sit there. So, that these people who are taking Kenyans for a ride when they leave the corridors of this very Honourable House, they ... view
• 24 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after Clause 145— 145A.(1) The Authority shall put in place mechanisms to avoid monopoly in distribution Control of of mono e po lec ly tricity. (2) The Authority shall grant more than one distribution licence provided it has received more than one application and the applicants have met the conditions under section 149. view
• 24 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The provisions that this particular Bill has in Clause 147(2) states that the Commission may – I underscore the word “may” – through a fair, open, and competitive process in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary by regulations, invite applications for a licence under Section 145. Under Clause 148, it goes on to state that the Commission may hear any objections in public at a time and place of which not less than 15 days’ notice shall be given to the applicant and to every objector and the Commission shall make known its decision regarding any objection within ... view
• 24 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: If you will allow me to expound for a minute, what this means is that the Authority shall be in a position to put in mechanisms, including inviting bidders through advertising. Secondly, if anyone applies, the Authority shall grant. What the Bill currently talks about is not “shall”. The Bill in Clause 147(2) says that the Commission “may”, not “shall”. I have put in an amendment regarding the same. I am reading because Hon. Duale has requested me to read Clause 145: “A person who wishes to carry out the generation, exportation, importation, transmission, distribution and retail supply of electricity ... view