Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Looking at this list, this Motion has gone through the HBC. Is it right for the Leader of the Minority Party to mislead the House by saying that this Motion is not properly before the House? view
• 4 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 4 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am a first time legislator and I am learning a lot by sitting in this House listening and also contributing. From what the Leader of the Minority Party has said from the beginning, I think he is not just passing improper motives on this Select Committee, but also on the integrity of this House. If he goes along that line, as one of the senior leaders in this House, there is something wrong. I do not know what happens to a leader who just says that whatever this House is doing is not acceptable. It is also ... view
• 4 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, very much Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I also want to congratulate Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo for bringing it to this House. Last week, when we were debating the Bill, he raised substantive issues. view
• 4 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for protecting me. Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo raised substantive issues with regard to that Bill. That Bill was not adequate to address the issues of 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
• 4 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: gambling, money laundering and all those vices that are almost bringing down this country. Through the Select Committee, we must establish if this is related to drugs, alcohol and substance abuse. This Motion and the law that will eventually come out of it are about protecting the youth of this country. It is not an easy thing. I have read that there could be individuals who have gambling dens and theirs is to defeat this Motion on the Floor of this House. This House should not accept that. Last week, I visited the Post Bank headquarters. I was not familiar ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I also want to thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. He has really provided leadership, particularly when the Committee was working through this Bill. As a former soldier, I want to pay tribute to our men and women who are out there in the frontline doing the most arduous task by putting their lives on the line so that this country is safe. view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Under Article 241 of our Constitution, the KDF is responsible for the defence and protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic. Under the same Article, it is said that the composition of the KDF shall reflect the regional and ethnic diversity of the people of Kenya. The KDF is the last line of defence in protecting the sovereignty of the Republic. For anything to do with the Kenya Defence Forces in terms of command control, administration and in military jurisprudence there should be no ambiguity in terms of how the generals; the military side of defence, and ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as a Committee we have looked at this Bill for a couple of months and also sat with the KDF. The Chairman has elaborated almost section by section areas we showed reservation. One of the areas we wish to further look at is the retirement age of the officers; men and women. It has been found to be very contentious because there are those who reach mandatory retirement age and if their service is extended, they block the promotion and rise of others. Therefore, in the Third Reading, this is an area we must seriously consider ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: The other area is military prosecution where we have the court-martial and summary trials of individuals by the commanding officers of the appropriate superior authority. We found that the military prosecutor is a uniformed officer. Where does the Chief Justice or the Judiciary come in, in terms of fairness or fair play in providing justice to the men and women in uniform? Therefore, we saw the need that the military prosecutor must be independent and that independence must be real, not artificial such that high ranking officers can dictate the sort of sentences to be passed to individuals. We saw ... view