Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2111 to 2120 of 2343.

• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I would like to support the recommendation by the Committee. I agree that Krieger’s recommendation was that the commissioners did get into the work of the secretariat, but the difference between the Commission that Kriegler was evaluating and the Commission that we are creating now is clear as day and night. There were 22 commissioners who were vetted by nobody. They were just provided in a list by political parties. They were dealing with 210 constituencies. We are now dealing with nine commissioners, who will deal with seven elections and 290 constituencies. What time will these commissioners ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Sir. As I support this amendment, let me try to convince the other hon. Members, although Mr. Mbadi did not allow me in the Committee to finish the proposal of what I wanted to say. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, it is understandable that we need the new commissioners to serve at least in the first two-and-a-half years, because that is when we will agree on the boundaries; we will do voter registration, all the hard work and then they run the elections. They all need that experience if you want them to send it to the next Commission. So, this is something that has already been done in the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. When they were appointed, they did a lottery and they decided that some of them would serve for four years and ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, my question is: Does it have to be six years continuously or a total of six years? That is the point! view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Motion. We keep judging ourselves against the best practices all over the world. The home of purported freedom of speech is said to be in the United States of America (USA) but even in that country, there is regulation pertaining to this subject. Why should we allow situations because they favour us at one time? Why am I supporting the regulation of this matter? Let us be frank. In most of the opinion polls that are run by FM radio stations, we send airtime to our supporters to give ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Member for Gem happens to represent a constituency with the highest number of PhDs in this country but I do not believe that, that is reflected in some of the points of order that he raises in this House. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: The issue I am raising is that if a Motion is anti-reform, deal with the anti-reform nature of that Motion. Labelling it “KANU” is assuming that the KANU that was there before is the same KANU that exists now. The people who benefited the most from the KANU regime, in both the public and private sectors, are some of the people we are cheering as reformers. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform the Member for Gwasi that during the short span of time his party leader was with KANU, he got the molasses plant. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: My party Chairman’s linkage to KANU is for over 40 years. His party chairman’s linkage to KANU lasted less than two years old, but he got the molasses plant. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I would like to urge my colleagues is; yes, there is a time when opinion polls will provide results which favour you and times when the results will not favour you. Do not be moved when opinion poll results favour you. Establish a system, so that whether the results favour you or not, the system is credible enough for you to believe the outcome of the opinion polls. We, as Kenyans, look at who heads the opinion polls institution. If by chance the name of that person starts with letter “O” or “K”, you ... view