Amina Abdalla

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• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: 23 Wednesday 2nd December, 2015(A) look at incentives that will make people more pro-environment. I want to give an example of the fact that our Constitution speaks of 10 per cent forest cover, yet there is no document on a strategy for achieving that 10 per cent cover, let alone the environmental awareness messages to lead to that increase in environmental cover. It is important that we not only look at the awareness creation on matters but start with strategies for actualising those environmental concerns. In conclusion, this is a timely, long awaited document that I would urge the House ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those many remarks, I beg to move. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I request the Member for North Horr, Hon. Chachu Ganya, to second the Motion. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Lelelit has just declared that I have to leave the Chamber because he is claiming that I am against the Bill. Is it a new rule of this House that if you are against a Bill you cannot sit in the House? Hon. Lelelit is saying I have to leave. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank all the Members for their contributions to this Sessional Paper. We have noted all the issues they have raised, especially on the overreliance of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) on licencing and enforcement rather than creation of environmental awareness. As has been said by the Members, this Sessional Paper has taken too long to be formulated and may have been overtaken by the fact that Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been revised. I urge the House to pass this Sessional Paper. I also ask my colleagues to stay in the Chamber ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Once again, thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No. 10 of 2014 on the National Environment Policy, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014. I must congratulate the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. If our environment would be conserved and managed as well as the written words on this policy paper, we would be very far. This policy paper is excessively well written and clearly stipulates the direction the country should be going on matters of environment. However, as a nation ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: 31 Wednesday 2nd December, 2015(A) I want to talk about the communities that conserve the water towers; the Mau and the Cherangany. When we design programmes we design programmes that only look at the people downstream and not the people who conserve the water because the notion of valuing natural resources in our budgeting processes has not been inculcated in us. On the question of rehabilitation and restoration of degraded areas, we all know that we are giving a lot of our resources to security, but the interlinkage between insecurity and environmental degradation needs this country to shift our focus ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because time does not allow me, let me just mention a few guiding principles of this policy that we really need to look into. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: 32 Wednesday 2nd December, 2015(A) On pollution, I have been at the forefront of ensuring that the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resource brings regulation. That regulation should ensure that any proponent of an investment such as in the extractive sector gives an environmental bond. If they cause degradation, we should retrieve that bond. I am very happy because this policy is talking about the need to have the polluter pay principal inculcated into the same. view