Abshiro Soka Halake

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• 19 May 2020 in Senate: affordable credit with the view to promote or support them to start businesses for wealth and employment creation. Additionally, the Government announced that the youth, women, persons with disability and (MSMEs) will soon be able to get cheap business loans from the Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, according to the Islamic rules, loans that attract interest are not permissible. Unfortunately, the interest payable on these loans by financial institutions upon lending to women, youth, persons with disability and (MSMEs) locks out the Muslim Community from benefiting from such opportunities. Article 27 (4) and (5) of the Constitution imposes an obligation on ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. What Sen. Were has asked is pertinent, especially for this House, whose sole mandate is to ensure that we protect counties and their people. Taking back some of this human resource for health employment is taking devolution back. Under the guise of COVID-19, governments, both at national and county levels, are taking back powers from devolution, when they should not be doing so. Sometimes this is necessary and those powers will be given back, but often times they may never be given back. This House must stand up and ensure that under the guise of ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice and congratulate my sister, Sen. Dullo, for bringing this very important Statement on violation of human rights. In this country, Government protected areas that are protecting wildlife are next to community areas. In fact, more animals are on the community land which is in protected areas. The KWS usually has statistics, but in this case, as Sen. Dullo has put, it is not just a statistic, it is somebody. Mr. Musa Somo Kanchora, who was shot. Mr. Kanchora is not just one person. Since the inception of the ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 48(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget regarding the foreseeable challenges of meeting the deadline for filing the 2019 income tax returns by taxpayers in the country. In the Statement, the Committee should - (a)State whether there are any plans by the Government to extend the deadline or put in place measures of filing of Income Tax returns given the prevailing circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic. We anticipate and, many people have made presentations to some of us, that this may hinder taxpayers with ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate Sen. Kwamboka for this timely and really important Statement. We have already picked few of this in the Standing Committee of ICT, as Sen. M. Kajwang’ has mentioned. I can confirm that the Digital Literacy Programme (DLP) and The Computers for Kids is not working. It is about time now, through this Statement, that we got to the bottom of this issue. We have already started the process at the ICT Committee level. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: We are certain and we can confirm to this House that children in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) areas like Isiolo are not learning at all. Some of us have tried to help with what we can. We have approached a company like Safaricom to give toll free numbers to do what we can, but that is a drop in the ocean. While we thank our stakeholders for coming in small ways, 78 per cent as of last night we were told are children who have no access to any learning materials, online or otherwise. We have spoken through ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Thank you the Chairperson of the ad hoc Committee on COVID-19 on this elaborate Report. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the impact of COVID-19 on our economy is being felt by all of us. So, I will not belabour the point. As you also know, this Committee has clustered a lot of its thematic areas. This is the thematic area that looks at the financial and economic issues. I do not wish to repeat all the recommendations and observations of the Committee as you have seen. We hope that Senators will interact with this Report which has ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I know that time has passed, but I cannot fail to congratulate my colleague, Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni. I work with him in the Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 and can attest to the fact that he brings a lot of experience and passion to the work he does. What struck me in the last few days is how much he turns up for the less fortunate. Congratulations, Sen. Omogeni. This was a fantastic win not just for this House, but this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, what is really remarkable about this ruling ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: making process, is really a landmark and commendable for team and the entire Senate that took this issue upon themselves. Madam Temporary Speaker, within the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) process and all these stages, there was the stage where we appropriate or divide amongst many items. Even before we get there, as everybody has said, the Division of Revenue Bill should be the first order of business. Therefore, we are very grateful to the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution; that we must start with first things; divide the revenue, then appropriate it. We are very happy with that, but ... view