Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: the only level of Government with the capacity or powers to set up parastatals. They were more interested because there were inputs from the counties that they be given permission to do their own dams and those facilities. As I said, because that is the role of the national Government, we will be urging this House to appreciate that for the national Government to meet the requirements of Article 43(d) of the Constitution, that requires us to give water of good quality and in sufficient amounts, it would be impossible for the national Government to meet those requirements without being ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: producing as the blue print for what the institutions in the sector will be dealing with. We will be proposing and agreeing with the Bill to retain the Water Sector Trust Fund that is dealing with providing funds to provide water to areas where water is not affordable. Part V of the Bill deals with dispute resolution by setting up the Water Tribunal. Part VII of the Bill deals with financial provisions and Part VIII deals with the general provisions such as the notices and conditions of issuance of orders. Part IX of the Bill deals with transitional arrangements. I ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, some of the functions of some of the institutions proposed such as the basin committees tended to mix policy functions, implementation functions and regulatory functions in bodies that do not have a corporate entity such as the Water Basins Authority. So, we will be urging the House to support our amendments so that if it is a policy function it goes to the national Government or the county government. If it is a regulatory function, it goes to the regulator and if it is an implementation function, it goes to the counties. The electronic version of the ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, another major issue that we dealt with and we were clear in our minds that it needs to be supported and retained is the issue of ring fencing funding from the water services revenue. We were where we were before 2002 because the funding that people were paying through water bills was not being used to develop the sector. So, that is a principle that I would be urging the House to retain. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the fourth contentious issue was on the issue of cross- county infrastructure. You know that once the new governors were voted in they jumped very fast wanting to take over some of these water services companies until they saw some of the bills that these institutions have. Everybody wants to be responsible for building infrastructure because there is money. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I said, it is the function of the national Government to do water resources and a lot of the water that is used in different areas comes from a different county. Nairobi County is dependent on Muranga County. If you let Muranga County be the decider of the tariffs then water will become unaffordable to everybody including those in the slums. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: So, in appreciating the constitutional provision that water resources are vested in the national Government and the fact that most water development would be cross- county, we have retained and will be urging the House to retain all the institutions that will be there. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will then move now closely to specific issues that we felt were left out in the Bill and we will be urging the House to support us in including the same. The international community has moved to managing resources through a system known as the “Payment for Ecosystem Services.” For example, it is the people of Bomet, the county you come from who manage the Mau Forest that then feeds water into the lake basin. We need to develop a system where the people of Bomet are paid for conserving that resource for other people to ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, another issue that we have been grappling with is the fact that this Bill does not speak to water research and training. The Ministry has the Kenya Water Institute (KEWI). “Research” has no home in the water institution. Our plea to abolish or rather to repeal the KEWI Act was met with resistance as a result of the fact that KEWI as an institution is partnering with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and has been declared some institution that should co- operate with UNESCO. We finally agreed that we will look at amending the ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: The other issue that is of concern which I have already raised is the fact that sewerage and waste water management has not been given sufficient attention in this Bill. This is for the Members who come to the Committee to ask us to convince the Budget and Appropriations Committee to give them more money to do water distribution in their different counties. The reality is that the proponents of the Bill did not handle it much in the Bill but we also appreciate that this is a devolved function. We must start getting divorced from the national Government and ... view