Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: It will read “authorisation to extract crude oil or natural gas at the production sharing contract stage”. view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to probably give this opportunity to Hon. Jamleck to explain that because I am having a second thought because if it is at the exploratory stage, then there is a problem. Let us put something ambiguous in the sense that it is at the earliest opportunity. That is because if you are exploring, you might find that they are not commercially viable volumes. I am fearful that if you give that at the petroleum sharing agreement, it will just be an amorphous document. I do not know whether that should be the contract. The ... view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, the Schedule be amended by deleting the words, “following the approval of the development plan” after the word “natural gas” and putting a full stop after the words “natural gas” view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the passing of this Bill and note that, as a country, we seem to be shying away from saying that we do not need omnibus Bills. This Bill is covering matters that are already covered in all those other Natural Resources Acts. Sometimes, I think that the Attorney-General’s Office should advise the Executive that we do not really need some of these omnibus Bills that are covering a wide range of things that are already covered in the mother Acts. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The question of benefit sharing and the issue of transactions that require parliamentary approval are covered in all our Acts. Some of our decision-makers are not bold enough to say they are sorry despite the five year term limit that they have to put this Bill in place. It is covered in all the Natural Resources Acts that have the same timeline. You should also go through it. Having gone through it, I am happy that we have an agreed Bill that covers all the natural resources and areas that needed to have been covered. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Hon. Wamalwa, who comes from the bread basket of Kenya and who has been rumoured to have problems with the Galana/Kulalu Irrigation Project as a potential threat to maize from the North Rift, is saying that the Galana/Kulalu is a white elephant project. Could he have first declared his interest as someone who comes from the food basket of Kenya before making that statement? People will assume that he is saying the truth. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in congratulating the Chair of the Liaison Committee. The Deputy Speaker did a tremendous job of having to deal with Committee Chairs who also have to present their views and to strike a balance. I have listened to many Members lamenting and complaining. In fact, Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo has ordered that we should not approve a BPS with money to the Senate, which I agree with totally. I further agree with him on the Affirmative Action Fund. I have now changed my mind because we have amended the CDF Act ... view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: willing to inject money to finish projects or pay pending bills. Those are the things that we need to look at as Committees and you ordered us to do monitoring and evaluation. When we do monitoring and evaluation, we go to see some of these stalled projects and we say that when we come to the budgeting process, we will amend the Budget to ensure that such projects are funded. But in this new framework, we cannot change anything. So, what we will continue with are the new projects that the Executive is excited about. Whereas we can criticise what ... view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Without that assignment, we cannot be sure whether those projects meet the policy directions that are in place. Now that my brother, Hon. Lelelit is not here, I need to bring to the attention of the House that we have been with this Constitution for six years. We have not come up with regulations for disbursement of the Equalisation Fund. Our term is coming to an end before we clean up the system. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Since I represent the urban pastoralist and an urban marginalised group, I would like to ask the PPG to follow up this matter to its conclusion. I would have said something about the money that has been given to the Senate, but Hon. Jakoyo has done a good job in explaining it. view