Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, finally, wetlands are a major source of water and this Bill did not talk to the regulation of the wetlands. A lot of our water sources are related to lakes that have already been declared as Ramser sites of international importance which include Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, Lake Bogoria, Lake Baringo and Lake Elementaita. We felt that, that oversight was something that should be able to be addressed. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, unfortunately, are not able to reduce the number of institutions from eight. We will however be streamlining their functions. Just to share, the stakeholders gave us two divergent views. One group felt that the water boards that is, the Rift Valley, TANATHI and the rest are no longer necessary in light of devolution. They felt that the counties could unite and do the work. Another group felt that the proposed Water Harvesting and Storage Authority which will be replacing the national water institution is not necessary anymore because the Water Act envisioned devolved institutions that would be ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: So, a lot of thoughts and discussions have informed the decisions that we have made. I have already spoken to the issue of aligning the functions of some institutions to what they really are linked. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is for the forward looking. When we were looking at those institutions, we realised for example that the water boards, the Rift Valley, TANATHI and the rest, are based on water basins. If it is the Lake Basin or the Ewaso Nyiro Basin and yet we still have regional authorities that are also basin---- Fortunately, these regional authorities are also vested ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: that the Committee wants the House to note. This is so that you know that if NEMA does any implementation work, they have conflicts with the Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) at present. We intend to help end that conflict. The other issue that I have alluded to in the beginning is the fact that the County Governments Act (CGA) and Urban and Cities Act (UCA) need to be amended to reflect the issue of tariff setting of water services. As I said, the CGA devolved some of these functions erroneously to counties, yet if the Government is to meet ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of information, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of information, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I just wanted to let him know that one of the issues that we have put in this Bill on the question of ecosystem services is that we will be proposing that 25 per cent of the abstraction fees goes to the communities where the resource is located or the upstream that is conserving that water. So, when we were speaking about the ecosystem services, we meant it is to pay the people such as those in Murang’a County or Bomet County, which was the example I used, who are the ones who conserve the ecosystem that ... view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I would like to join my colleagues in sending my condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Prof. Ali Mazrui. Hon. Speaker, I thought it befitting to share a discussion that I held with Prof. Mazrui when I first met him as a graduate student at Cornell University in the Spring of 1998. With all humility, he showed so much interest in my research topic and wanted to know why I wanted to come back home before I finished my business there. Before I could explain why I wanted to come back very ... view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: small tribes, who could afford to talk about tribalism because every other person was only talking about tribalism when it was somebody else practising it, and that when they get opportunity, they do the same. I had explained to him that leading Opposition figure then had just been to Cornell a month before; he only spoke English when he was at the podium. When he was socializing, he socialized in his mother tongue. I, as a minority, did feel the effect of tribalism. Tribalism should be felt, whether practised by those in power or by all of us. The second ... view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: We will give him a response in one month’s time, when we come back. view