Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: The list of institutions that we have consulted with is very long. They include the Wildlife Conservation Association, the East African Wildlife Society, Vision 2050, Wildlife Direct, Walk with Rangers, Kenyans United Against Poaching, Kenya Land Conservation Trust, COMESA, Narok Wildlife Conservancy Association, Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancy Association, Youth for Conservation and Network for Animal 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
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Welfare among others. We had long discussions and agreement with the Ministry of Environment, Water and Mineral Resources and Environment. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: As a Committee, we have agreed with the stakeholders on the following things that must be done for this House to pass this Bill. One, the Bill must be aligned to the provisions of the Constitution on the management of natural resources. Two, we feel that we have to strengthen compliance with wildlife conservation by all parties, so that we are able to curb the poaching menace. Three, we are proposing the reduction of human- wildlife conflict through focus on co-existence and promotion of some level of consumptive use. Four, we believe that part of our problem is purely from ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: job description that would again require an amendment, it will not be necessary. Therefore, I would urge hon. Members that any Bill that proposes the formation of a directorate, would amount to over-legislation. Fourthly, we will be proposing amendments that will strengthen the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). In strengthening their core mandate, we have removed the regulatory role from KWS, which they have now. The Bill had suggested the formation of a regulatory council. As a Committee, we would want to propose to this House that the regulatory council is unnecessary. It is the work of the Cabinet Secretary to ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: look for mechanism of capping abuse. There were cases where farmers in Narok complained of crop destruction, especially large scale farmers who use helicopters and airplanes to spray their crops. They would drive wildlife into their farms so that the Ministry would compensate them. Therefore, we are protecting the Government while at the same time ensuring that small-scale farmers who are really affected by the destruction of their livestock and crops are compensated. We have heard a lot of complaints about the low compensation when community members living around wildlife areas are killed, maimed or disabled by wildlife. We were ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: So, we are proposing an amendment to ensure that compensation for death is pegged at Kshs3 million. It is currently very low. I think it is Kshs200,000. The compensation for permanent disability is pegged at Kshs2 million and any injuries is pegged at Kshs1 million. Kindly note that these are similar figures to those that were proposed in the last Bill on third party insurance. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on offences and penalties, we have enhanced them significantly. We thought that it was important to categorise the offences and we have increased the offences of killing wildlife that are in category “A”, that is elephants, rhinos, lions and the rest to Kshs20 million or life imprisonment. A fine of Kshs5 million or imprisonment for category “B”and offence under category “C” would attract a fine of Kshs1 million. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is a report I had tabled in this House on complaints about drought and famine and communities wanting to use wildlife areas. Arising from the input from members of the pastoral communities, we will be proposing some amendments on increasing accessibility to those areas so that animals do not die during famine but it has to be declared a national disaster. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: On incentives and benefits, we have enhanced them so that people with land and they want to get into conservation, it would be possible to do so. After the review of the process we talked to a Member, hon. Mwadime, who gave us input about benefit sharing. We received similar inputs from the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) that we intend to add to the amendments. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will be recommending amendments that would decriminalise the non-compliance to a management plan. If you have your land and you give it to conservation and you are then penalised if you do not adhere to that, then it would be going against the current standards where environmental crimes are not seen as criminal. They are dealt with as civil. So, we will--- view