Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House:- view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: The Report of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Resources on Senate Amendments to the Environmental Management and Co- ordination (Amendment) Bill, 2014 view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, the Senate Amendments to the Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.31 of 2014) be now considered. Whereas we agree with some of the amendments proposed by the Senate, we have some major policy disagreements with the Senate on at least three of the clauses. We agree with the Senate on the amendment on Clause 8 because it is basically enriching the Bill. We, however, disagree on the amendment on Clause 10 in which they wish to replace the representative of the Attorney-General in the ... view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Clauses 20(b) and 20(c). Here, the Senate’s amendment proposes to reduce the numbers of persons appointed by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) under Section 31(f) from two to one member and replacing the one member with a representative of the CoG. Again, the Public Complaints Committee is a national Government function that is undertaken by a national Government institution working on a stated role given to it by the Constitution. So, for the Senate to propose a representative of CoG, this is opening another Pandora’s box that will in essence be going against the Fourth Schedule. We again reject the Senate’s ... view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg the House to reject this amendment from the Senate based on the fact that the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) is a national body mandated to perform national functions in accordance with the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution. Therefore, there is no policy or legal basis on which the Council of Governors should be represented in this body. I beg that we reject this amendment. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wanted to clarify to hon. Dalmas that we considered the view of just retaining the Attorney-General and having a representative of the Council of Governors. The reason as to why we thought it would not be the right thing to do is that, under environment, the role of policy development is a national Government function while implementation of the policies is a devolved function. Based on that, in this Bill, we have re-created environmental committees that are similar to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) in every county, to which the NEMA officer in the ... view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. We are proposing that we reject the Senate’s amendment because in essence what they are saying is that the National Environmental Complaints Committee--- This is a committee that you go to complain about a factory that is polluting your river or such kind of issues. It is basically quasi-judicial. They are saying that we reduce the names of the individuals that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) can propose from two to one. They are proposing in paragraph (c) that the other one member comes from the CoG. We do not see the legal basis for ... view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, as I said the amendments are interlinked in terms of membership to the National Environmental Complaints Committee and as such part (c) was just a linkage. Therefore, we are proposing rejection of parts (b) and (c). view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: The Senate amendment to Clause 23 is basically on reducing time in which the national Government should spend in developing National Environmental Action Plan and consequently, the time it should take in producing a report on the Plan. We are rejecting this reduction because of experience. Even the current law requires that the national Government produces a state of the environment report annually. This has been shown to be unrealistic. It is too much to collate information from all over Kenya and report on how the environment is performing within one year. To do that plan, we had suggested and ... view