Abshiro Soka Halake

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• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: It will ensure that the communities that bear the brand of conservation and host the animals are part of the landscape are also recognized and given the compensation they need; that they are actually used in the fight against poaching and bad consequences of some of the habits around parks. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support Sen. (Dr.) Milgo’s Statement that we must get to the bottom of this. We must ensure that our national parks have sustainable conservation at heart. It is not just policing that you go and run in and out and forget that ... view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am fast but allow me to say something about police brutality. Let me start with congratulating my brother, Sen. Anwar, for this excellent Statement that will go a long way in providing opportunity and ask questions around why locals are always by-passed. It is not just the locals; certain counties have a way of being neglected, especially Lamu and Isiolo. Smaller counties seem not to be taken seriously when it comes to youth opportunities. I am happy that the Senator for Lamu County is a youth, who is standing up for their rights. He ... view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Isiolo human rights defenders. Youth who have united and called themselves the Isiolo Human Rights Defenders have been highlighting these issues to all of us and have been active. Every single day they highlight to us two or three people who have been clobbered by the police or other agencies that are supposed to be looking after them. The Independent Police and Oversight Authority should ensure that justice is served to the people of Isiolo and the people of this Country. I support both Statements and look forward to working on these issues with the two Senators. Thank you, Madam ... view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Thank you very much Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise pursuant to Standing Order. No. 48(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights regarding derogatory reference to mentally challenged victims of sexual violence in the Penal Code. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: The Sexual violence bit is not even the most important, but the derogatory terms used to describe our mentally challenged citizens is--- view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: The issue of the sexual violence notwithstanding, generally, the language used on our mentally challenged individuals is a point of concern. In the Statement, the Committee should: (a)Provide justification if any for the continued use to the terms idiots. In our Penal Code, mentally challenged individuals are referred to as idiots and imbeciles. In section 146 of the Penal Code refer to mentally challenged victims--- I am using the sexual bit because I came to this while following up on sexual abuse of mentally girls. I then realized as I was reading the Penal Code that they are referred to ... view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: I thank you. view
• 4 Aug 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was one of the Members in the other Chamber that got forgotten today, but I am happy that I am able to contribute to this Petition. The issue of land is something that is very close to my heart. I would like to support the people of Jomvu who have brought it. They have done the right thing to come to the Senate. Madam Deputy Speaker, Mr. Mohamed of Jomvu can be replicated in every part of the Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) counties as well. In fact, this reminds me of the allocation ... view
• 4 Aug 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 4 Aug 2020 in Senate: colonial style of laws and disfranchisement of communities is happening, especially with land. Madam Deputy Speaker, all that anybody needs to do to take away from our communities, be it in Mombasa, Isiolo or Mandera, is to gazette. We are all for places of worship. In fact, if there is one place where people live in perfect harmony from any religion it is the coastal region. We would like our places of worship to have enough land. However, it is not right that community land is usually just acquired compulsorily without any consideration for the communities that have lived there ... view