Hon Ali Menza Mbogo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: THAT, on 1st July 2021, the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing held a meeting with the Principal Secretary of the State Department for Maritime, the Principal Secretary for Internal Security and other Government officials, during which it was reported that despite having ratified the said convention, Kenya is yet to ratify its later amendments. view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: THAT, the Government’s disclosures imply that Kenyan seafarers are at an ongoing risk of being exposed to a potentially hostile, rigid and harsh internal and external working environment that may result to low productivity, high workers turn-over rates and other undesirable effects. view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: THAT, currently, multinational shipping companies are dominating the Kenyan shipping industry, with many of them being accused of discriminating citizens in terms of employment opportunities, wages and working conditions. view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: THAT, the difficult situation in the Kenyan Maritime Industry calls for the full implementation of the Maritime Labor Convention, 2006. THAT, efforts to have the matters contained in this Petition with relevant Government authorities have been futile. AND THAT, the matters contained in this Petition are not pending before any court or law, or any constitutional or legal body. view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Now, therefore, your humble petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing: 1. Intervenes to secure the operationalisation of the signed agreement between the Mombasa Seafarers Charter and the Government of Kenya. 2. Secures inclusivity and equal participation of all seafarers organisations as stakeholders in decision and policy making, and development of any regulations pertaining the blue economy and maritime affairs from time to time as per Article 232 of the Constitution and Section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 2009. 3. Recommends the establishment of public seafarers recruitment and replacement services ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: 8. Recommends the release of names of all current employees of the Kenya Maritime Authority and secures open employment opportunities to seafarers. 9. Secures the full implementation and enforcement of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, including its amendments. And your Petitioners will forever pray. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 16 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support the proposed amendment by the Chairman. We have been told that the worth of the assets at Waqf is around Kshs9 billion. Therefore, whatever is being proposed will act as a safeguard to ensure that there is another level that can cross-check before a disposal is done. I support. view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important Bill. I wish to make it very clear that I support this Bill because it is timely. For information purposes to my colleagues, we already have the Wakf Commissioners of Kenya that is already operating and existing in this country but it is mostly felt in the coastal region. However, the current laws that we have that are managing the Wakf Commissioner of Kenya are pre-colonial. These are the laws that were enacted in 1948 and are not in line with our ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: The law currently being proposed will address so many issues. First, is the issue of transparency because as we speak there are two types of Waqf; we have a private Waqf and public Waqf. The private Waqf is where a member contributes his assets to help his own family. We have a public Waqf whereby whatever you contribute goes to help the public at large. I agree with my colleagues when we come to the Third Reading during the Committee of the whole House, we will bring amendments. This is because we need to address the issues of private and ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Today, we have so many assets belonging to the Muslim community that have never been claimed. Yet, we have a WAQF Commission of Kenya which does not have powers and means of claiming those assets, to ensure they support and propagate the welfare of Muslims and less fortunate ones in the society. This has been brought about because of lack of faith and confidence of the WAQF Commission that exists at the moment, because of the gaps I have just mentioned. That, we do not know how this Commission is selected, management of their funds or how much funds or ... view