Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: I support. view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to join you in wishing my colleagues a happy new year. As I sat here listening to my colleagues, everybody hopes that the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.56 of 2021) gets the due diligence it deserves and that we do the right thing with it. However, I think we should not be hoping, we should be reassuring this country that as Senators, we will do what we do best. In the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process, we did the right thing. If that is the case, what is different with ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: due diligence it requires through public participation that is constitutionally mandated, and that this House will do the right thing. Looking at the Order Paper today, we have several Bills. This Bill, while a very important topic at this time of elections, is not any different from all the other laws this House makes for this country. This House has been making laws to the best of its ability with every constitutional requirement ticked off on the box. Therefore, to insinuate or to say that this Bill should be done this or that way and yet there are so many ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I rise to support, I congratulate Sen. Shiyonga for this timely and well thought-out amendment Bill about the KEMSA. As she has articulated, health is a devolved function and any legal or legislative framework that seeks to entrench devolution and ensure that services are taken to the frontline of service provision should be supported. So, I congratulate her for this thoughtful and well thought-out legislation. Article 43(1) of the Constitution of our country guarantees every person the right to the highest attainable standards of health. There is no way we can give the highest attainable standards ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Bill aligns very well with the functions of the county government in Article 110 of the Constitution. I am happy that as Senators, with our mandate under Article 96 of the Constitution, we continue to ensure that we entrench devolution and devolved functions. As we fight for resources for counties, one of the main drivers of making sure that resources are taken down to the grassroots in the counties is to make sure that functions are also devolved. This Bill does just that. It ensures that resources follow functions. I do not want to say too ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, we cannot hear anything. Members may be missing out as you call out the names. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education regarding discontinuation of the School Feeding Programme (SFP) in Isiolo County. In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) Explain why the SFP for schools in Arid and Semi-Arid (ASAL) areas has been discontinued in most of the schools across Isiolo County. (2) State measures put in place to ensure continued attendance and retention of children in schools following the discontinuation of the SFP. (3) Given that this programme was put in place to ensure our children ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you, for the indulgence as will the children of Isiolo who have been disadvantaged greatly as a result of this. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to congratulate and support the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare of the Senate. The issues around view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: and other social protection programmes for our country are wanting. As you know, I also have a statement asking a similar question for other social protection programmes that have been implemented haphazardly, if at all. Madam Temporary Speaker, we seem to be doing things with immediate reactions. We implement something and there seems to be no plan for continuation and sustainability of these things, therefore, causing more undesired consequences than they should be. While observing that the Inua Jamii Programme that was passed in Parliament is enacting the care and protection of older members of the society and that there ... view