Bashir Sheikh Abdullah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise under Standing Order No. 95. Last week we debated this matter and rejected the Report. This The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: is trying to sanitize what the Committee has done. I urge the House under Standing Order No. 95 to put a closure to this debate. Thank you. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill is crucial. We need to be cognisant of the fact that, as people’s representatives, we care for both the employers and employees. As we go on with this kind of amendment, let us remember that both employers and employees are Kenyans. Let us not have a situation where we force companies to go under because we want money in the pockets of employees. What will happen if those companies go under? Who is going to pay the employees? The Government cannot absorb all those employees. So, we need not have ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Livestock and Livestock Products Marketing Board Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 2 of 2019) be now read a Third Time. I also request Hon. Adan Haji to second. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have just heard the statement as read by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. First and foremost, I will request that, that statement be tabled so that I can have a look at it in detail. Two, from the explanation he has given, it looks like the statement has not addressed whatever I requested. It has talked about generalities. It is as if the statement read by the Chairman was the one he used when he was launching the census results. I asked for raw data from the ground as ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I want to really congratulate the Committee for the thorough job they have done in bringing to this House the proposal for annulment of these regulations. The Committee’s work is very thorough and exhaustive. I have gone through it page by page. In the first place, there was no public participation. These regulations would have had far reaching implications on all Kenyans. Therefore, not being able to conduct public participation as is required in law itself, is doing things against the law. The Report says that they only did public participation ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to disagree. This is a matter that I am conversant with and I have a lot of expertise in. The regulations have talked about that and it has been in the media throughout that private security guards will be armed and that this will relieve duties of police officers. S, I beg to differ. I wish to continue. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you. The other point is the timeline. The security firms were given six months to comply. As I was saying, we have drawn examples from countries which are more developed. The United Kingdom had similar regulations but they gave stakeholders five years to comply. In these regulations the Authority says it is six months within which companies should comply. It is too short looking at the ramification of the regulations. So, I support and agree with the Committee in annulling the regulations. I have gone through the Report and I do not want to go into each and every ... view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I second the Bill. The Equalisation Fund Bill, 2019 is an Act of Parliament to operationalise Article 204 of the Constitution which seeks to establish structures for administering the Equalization Fund. The aim of this Bill is to operationalise the Equalisation Fund. As we all know, the Constitution provides for the Equalisation Fund. The most unfortunate part is that the operationalisation of the Fund has not taken effect. The time the drafters of this Constitution had in mind was for the Fund to be used for 20 years. We have already ... view