Asman Kamama

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the plans by the national Government to ensure that a comprehensive assessment of the damage to property, loss of lives and displacement of people in the county was done and the situation declared a national disaster. (ii) Consideration by the Government to establish a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the underlying issues surrounding the conflict that has taken quite a different dimension from the traditional tribal conflict. (iii) Whether the Government has extended sufficient humanitarian assistance to those who have been affected by the conflict. (iv) Whether the Government could establish a special land committee to ... view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: In an effort to address the persistent conflicts in Marsabit County, His Excellency the President appointed hon. Francis Ole Kaparo, the former Speaker of the National Assembly and hon. Senator Mohamed Yusuf Haji, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Security, Foreign and International Affairs as mediators in the conflict with a view to finding a lasting just and equitable solution to the conflict. The mediators engaged select representatives of the parties to the conflict in a rigorous mediation process and agreed on a number of issues aimed at ending the conflict. Since then, relative calm has been experienced in ... view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: management is bearing fruit and hence no need of declaring the situation as a national disaster. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, in the same spirit, the mediation process should be given time instead of establishing a judicial commission of inquiry that will run concurrently, especially with the current austerity measures. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Further, a team consisting of representatives drawn from the Government, line Ministries, Marsabit County Government and humanitarian organisations operating in the county is profiling internally displaced persons and developing a data-bank to capture the names of the affected households, names of family members and their national identity card numbers. The data-bank also states the nature of loss experienced by people affected by the conflicts, a profile of houses and public facilities burnt and/or destroyed. That has also been developed. I wish to table a summary of the profile and the hon. Member has that tabulation. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the National Treasury has released Kshs397,122,472 to facilitate and enhance security deployment, peace rallies, humanitarian assistance including provision of relief supplies and reconstruction of houses and schools and replenishment of medical kits. On 17th March, 2014, the Government, through the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), provided drugs worth Kshs23 million to be distributed to health centre facilities in Marsabit County. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Further, the Government, through the Department of Special Programmes, has provided humanitarian assistance to people affected by conflicts in the county. I wish to table a list of relief food that has been allocated to Marsabit County from January up to February, 2014, and hon. Duba has that information. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Since disputes over land and communal boundaries have sparked internal communal conflicts in Marsabit County over the years, the National Land Commission (NLC) has been asked to address the issue since it falls within its mandate. In addition, the Government has employed the following alternative conflict resolution mechanisms in the county:- view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (i) The Government has initiated the Marsabit mediation process with a view to finding a lasting solution to the Marsabit conflict and the process is bearing fruits and warring communities have stopped fighting each other. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (ii) Cross-border meetings between the Government officials from Kenya and Ethiopia have been initiated. view