Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1971 to 1980 of 2343.

• 10 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is to give provision for the appointment of polling clerks. Polling clerks are an important component of elections and their appointment needs to be provided in these regulations. So, that is what it is providing. It is also providing that the list of those polling clerks be shared with political parties and they be displayed prominently in the constituency offices, so that we do not have bias in the polling clerks appointed. view
• 10 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Regulation 6 (1)(c) be amended by inserting the words “and publicise through electronic and print media of national circulation and other easily accessible medium,” immediately after the word “Gazette”. view
• 10 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, regulation 8(1) be amended by inserting the words “and through electronic and print media of national circulation and other easily accessible medium” immediately after the word “Gazette”. view
• 10 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I do sympathize with the House that they may not have read this amendment. The way we are going, they are going to say that we ambushed them. Given that this is the body of what the amendments are about, I suggest that we report progress and return tomorrow when hon. Members will have read them. I would want to request that hon. Members--- I have suffered for two weeks looking for quorum to have this thing approved. So, when we move to tomorrow, please, be there. view
• 9 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like the Assistant Minister to tell the House whether their investigations have unearthed who the “funders” of MRC are, considering that all illegal groupings in this country are usually funded through extortion and other means, and yet we have not yet heard from him whether MRC is involved in such activities? Could he tell the House whether their investigations have clarified where the MRC is receiving its funding from? view
• 9 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second that this House approves the Report of my Committee. Upon tabling of the regulations by the Minister on 30th August, 2012, we realized that the timelines in the Election Act were too short and so we requested the House, and our request was subsequently granted, that the timelines for approval of these regulations be four months to the elections. The tabling of these regulations took a lot of effort by the House to pressure the IEBC to provide them. The Joint Committee that looked at this document noted with concern the poor editorial ... view
• 9 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Upon the Joint Committee’s meeting, it was decided that the registration of voters be given first priority given that the powers to scrutinize regulations are vested, under Standing Order No.197, in the Committee on Delegated Legislation. The Committee met and we are proposing amendments that fall into four categories. First, we are looking at whether the regulations are consistent with the Constitution. Secondly, we are looking at whether they are consistent with the parent Act, namely, the Elections Act of 2011. Thirdly, we have looked at whether there are issues that the stakeholders have given us input on, but have ... view
• 9 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, whereas I appreciate that hon. Musila was my Deputy Speaker in the Ninth Parliament, I just want to tell him that I am going through the broader issues. The amendments that we are proposing are over 70. So, if I went to the nitty-gritty, I will, probably, sleep on the Floor. Having raised the issues, they are in four categories and they will come in the amendment process. I just wanted the Members to note that there are issues that the IEBC did not cover in the regulations that we have done. I want to highlight ... view
• 9 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, the proposed Regulation 2 be amended by inserting the following definitions in the proper alphabetical sequence. “Commission” has the meaning assigned to it in the Act; “foreign representative of Kenya” means a public officer serving in a Kenyan foreign mission abroad. The word “Commission” needs to be defined because it is mentioned throughout the Regulations, but it is not defined. Secondly, having collapsed the two regulations, it view
• 9 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT the proposed regulation 5 be amended in sub-regulation clause (3) by inserting the word “officer” immediately after the words “assistant registration”. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, Regulation 5 seeks to add a word, “officer” because the regulation speaks of assistant registration but does not speak about an assistant registration officer. We are proposing the addition of the word “officer.” view