Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our Committee listened to the public. We got input from private tree growers association who are people who have plantations of different types of trees on their farms for commercial purposes and for electric poles. We also listened to indigenous community representatives, the KFS and to professional foresters. The input that we have received and we are struggling to incorporate in this is the fact that despite the change of names from “Kenya Forest Guards” to the “Kenya Forest Service”, the interpretation of Service has not been there. The KFS and the Government continue to do ... view
• 3 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we think that is ill advised. Although forests are both a county and national Government function, once they are gazetted, they become public land and should be managed and not necessarily taken over by the counties. I am a firm believer of the notion that if you want to derive benefits from a resource, you should also invest your resources in developing and managing that resource. I am concerned that this view that we want to take over forests from national Government because they are our resources does not take into account the fact that as ... view
• 3 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: colleagues in the region have taken this step and it is my view that, as a House, we should all welcome the issues as stated under Clause 43. The establishment of the Kenya Forest Service Board (KFSB), the Kenya Forest Research Institute (KEFRI), the Kenya Forest College in Londiani and a trust fund on forests has been done in the normal way. People want to set up their own enclaves where they do not want interference from others. They end up having institutions that are intended to serve the same goal, but doing different things that are not helping each ... view
• 3 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: become a habit to establish forest reserves so that you deny people from that region an opportunity to fully exploit their areas. As we speak, Madogo, Wayu and Bura towns are all forest reserves established in 2013. Those towns have been in existence since the early 1970s. We need to be very careful so that politically correct civil servants do not establish forests in that manner in future. We should not allow this Bill to allow them to do the same. I am very happy with the proposed establishment of a forest fund whose intention is to have monies set ... view
• 3 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: All in all, this Bill is good. We interacted with the first version before it was published. We are very happy that we have cordial relations with the Ministry to a point that many of the concerns have already been included and the ones that have been left out, we had an agreement to deal with the same. This Bill is timely and needs our support. There is also the issue of having county and national Government forests. We need to appreciate that the Constitution has clear land tenure classification that we must take into account. We welcome all the ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I understand where Hon. Eseli is coming from. But having allowed the Maasai Spiritual Leader into this House with his traditional clothes and secondly, knowing that Hon. Pkosing is a Pokot, we should be grateful that he is even wearing a shirt. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Member for Kisumu Central is trying to gag my good friend from Samburu West from stating what he has seen practically happening in the 50 years of Kenya’s Independence. The Member for Samburu West stated that there is a positive correlation between the amount of development that goes to areas where presidents have been produced. So, I do not see any misinformation in that statement. I totally agree with it. He will tell you that there is no tarmac in his county, and there is a lot of tarmac in counties that have produced presidents. ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No. 11 of 2014 on the National Education for Sustainable Development Policy, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 2nd December, 2014. As you will notice on the Order Paper, this is one of the myriad policy papers that have been lying in the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources for very long, and have some of the achievements that helped this Ministry be ranked number one in the year 2014 in the review by the Public Service Commission. This Sessional ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Agenda 21 on environment and development indicated that all levels of education and training needed to be re-oriented towards a more sustainable model of development. It was felt that despite the amount of investment most countries were putting in development and environment, there was lack of information that emanated from lack of investment in the education system that is able to make children at a young age to be sensitive to environmental concerns. As I said, this policy has been in the making for a long time. As you note, Agenda 21 was passed in 1992. In 2005, the UN ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: 22 Wednesday 2nd December, 2015(A) March 2006, it also agreed through the African Ministers of Education in the context of enhancing education, including environmental education in the education curricula in Kenya. We also signed in 2009, the Bonn Convention. These are the basis of international instruments that required Kenya to have these policies because those are commitments we have made. Locally, our own Constitution in Article 42 declares that every person has a right to a clean and healthy environment, which includes the right to have the environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations. Every person has ... view