Ali Mohamud Mohamed

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 381 to 390 of 502.

• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not aware that the programme has been withdrawn. To the contrary, the programme is very much in place. This June itself, we have already disbursed a lot of food under the same programme. Therefore, it is not true that that emergency programme has been withdrawn. Possibly, in particular constituencies, because of the assessments we were doing, delays may have been made for tabulations to be done such that proper targeting can be considered, so that disbursements will be effected. Otherwise, withdrawal is not the true position. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is not true at all that the same has been withdrawn. It is only when we were doing the assessments to get accurate data in various constituencies that delay was caused. However, it has been addressed. In fact, in the case of Machakos District, under EMOP alone, we have been disbursing as tabulated here. These delays will not be experienced again. It happened that particular month because we were to assess to get the accurate the numbers. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the programme runs on information from the ground by the steering group. We have the District Steering Group whereby the District view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is actually a very good question. I really appreciate it because we have to stop this business of relying on relief food every now and then. Various Ministries in the Government have been having consultations on this. The fact that rain-fed agriculture is no longer a solution to the problems of food in our country has been realized. In the Budget that was read by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance a few weeks ago, as a first step, some provisions have been made to the Ministry of Agriculture to revive irrigation schemes, so ... view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that question would have been adequately handled by the Ministry of Agriculture but I can attempt to respond to it. As you are aware, at the moment, the rains have failed. I want to state that we are now well prepared and Kenyans will not suffer because of hunger. However, we have information from the Ministry of Agriculture that by December, Kenya will harvest enough from the three irrigation schemes and I believe that problem will be solved. view
• 17 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Let me at the outset take this opportunity to congratulate very sincerely our able Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for doing what has never been done in the history of this country. He has managed to devolve funds as we have always been advocating for, for years. view
• 17 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: You will recall when we had a lot of confrontations during the Bomas Draft when we were talking about the constitutional review process. The position the majority of Kenyans have been advocating for is such that funds and management of the country must be devolved to the grassroots level. When he got this opportunity, he took it and utilized it perfectly. For that, we say, congratulations. Much has been said about resettlement of IDPS. As the Assistant Minister in that Ministry, I know the challenges that go with it. We were handicapped financially for the better part of last year. ... view
• 17 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: I recall that last year we were given a lot of money under the emergency sector for water. To date, we have not utilized some of those funds. We are talking of emergency provisions, yet we do not have exemptions for tendering. Once you follow that bureaucratic system of tendering, and yet people are lacking water, I think we are defeating the purpose of provision of water. view
• 17 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: As I speak, majority of my people have crossed into Ethiopia in search of water and pasture. It will do us a lot of good if what the Minister has provided for in his Budget can be utilized by relevant Ministries urgently, so that our people can appreciate the efforts made by our able Minister. view
• 17 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, however, I have to mention about his provision for the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands. When we talk about opening up northern Kenya and other arid lands in this country, we have got to be serious. The provision we were given last year was a meager view