Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1671 to 1680 of 2343.

• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, the Statement was on the rampant corrupt practices that have marred the recruitment of the Kenya Forest Officers at various stations in the country. He wanted to know the steps taken to curb the use of fake certificates during the recruitment of KFS officers. He wanted also to know the steps being taken to regularize the recruitment process of the KFS offices across the country. On 19th November, the Committee had a meeting with the Director of KFS and the response, as presented and agreed at the meeting, reads as follows:- view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: During the period 25th July to 8th November, 2013, the KFS undertook an internal exercise to identify suitable forest rangers among the 2,300 constable rangers for promotion to the rank of corporal and sergeant. The criteria for promotion were clearly indicated in an internal advertisement circulated among the staff in July, 2013. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: The KFS was carrying out an exercise to promote forest rangers, who were inherited from the Forest Department, all of whom are in the same rank of constable. The importance of the exercise was to establish a chain of command of this cadre of disciplined non-uniformed staff. The mandatory requirement was paramilitary training certificates obtained by rangers who had been trained at the KFS school, Londiani, the Administration Police Training College, Embakasi, and the Kenya Wildlife Training School in Mayani and Naivasha. However, the KFS is unaware of any fake certificates presented by the rangers purported to have come from ... view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we had discussions with the head of the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) about the fake certificates. The supplementary information we got is that, yes there were murmurs about fake certificates, and what they did was that they changed the recruitment process from being an internal exercise that used to be done by the Security Department to include more persons, so that they opened up the process. The challenge that the Director has is that there are murmurs but nobody is willing to give information as to who has a fake document. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: On the issue of bribery, hon. Chanzu could not make it to the meeting but he subsequently told us about the issue. The Director also confessed that they had such murmurs, and that they hoped that they had curtailed it by broadening the recruitment team. He told us that if they get actual reports, they will act on them. As it is now, it is just murmurs, and nobody is willing to come forward with a specific case. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I was just concerned that we had agreed with the Leader of Majority Party to say something about the direction on the Wildlife Conservation and Management Bill because the Order Paper does not have any of the over 200 amendments that are being moved by us. view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Once you deal with that, I will take my leave. view
• 27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Leader of Majority Party to declare the name of the Member a constituency? Hon. Gichigi represents a constituency and there is no constituency called “Gichigi”. The Leader of Majority Party has said that he is the Member for Gichigi. The Member for Kipipiri is hon. Gichigi. The constituency is “Kipipiri” and the Member is “Hon. Gichigi”. view
• 27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. My first reaction to this Bill was that we should have a legislation to deal with this matter, considering the fact that the heroes of this country are known, as my colleagues have said. All we needed to do was to have a framework housed in the Ministry concerned with heritage to deal with it. My experience with the way national honours have been given in this country has convinced me that probably we need legislation, so The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: that we do not deal with heroes on a case by case basis, or deal with them when they really do not need us. When one is dead usually they do not need much from this world. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we now have set criteria on how a hero can be identified. Unfortunately, this Bill does not define who a hero is. It only refers us to the section that declares one a hero, but does not say what a hero should be. On the issue of honours, we do not have criteria, as a country, on how to ... view