Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise on Standing Order No. 54 on amendment to Motions once they have been moved and discussed. In this particular case, Hon. Kathuri said they have discussed with the Mover of this Motion. Like I said in my last contribution, this amendment changes the thrust of the original Motion. If we say we will go by that, then I feel that Hon. Kathuri should bring his own Motion for us to debate in this House and then at some point the two Motions can be combined. Although we will debate this amended Motion, ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. From the outset, this is technical. As a colleague said at the beginning while moving the Bill, we should not pass it in a rush because its technical nature will transgress many areas. First of all, this Bill is about rights, fundamental freedoms, civil liberties and access to information. It is about the horse or the cart and one look at it is a serious dilemma. It is also about the good and the bad. Article 34 of our Constitution is about freedom of the media. Article 35 ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The important bit that we need to critically analyse and understand in this Bill is the role of Parliament in legislation. We set media standards, regulate and monitor compliance with those standards. The laws that we pass must reflect the interest of all sections of the society. If you look at the use of cyberspace, the internet and the computer, you will realise that in all our constituencies, 60 to 70 per cent of the people who voted for us to be in this House are young men and women. They are the major users of the internet. Before we ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: passed. If this Bill is passed by this House, when does it come into force? When will the principal applications of this Bill become part of the laws of the land? view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Looking at the some of the issues we raised, particularly last week on the misuse and abuse of cyberspace by the citizenry in Kenya and across the world, one of the things we must agree as a House is that we must protect the many from the few who abuse cyberspace. Within this Bill, there are areas that we need to address, for example, with regard to offences. Offences that are punishable by law must be read in conjunction with the existing civil offences code that exists in our land. The other things in this Bill which we need to ... view
• 13 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I stand to support the Report by Hon. Pkosing. He was canvassing indirectly to be given opportunity to represent this Parliament in future sittings of IPU. That is in order. It is true that he did extremely well in representing us in the 11th Parliament. view
• 13 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I have looked at the Report, and I have seen the functions of IPU. It provides global platform forums for parliamentarians on the issues of democracy, security, matters of the United Nations (UN), and the role of Parliament in providing a platform for dialogue and interaction of people across the world. If you look at the current dispensation in the world, for example in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe and the USA, you clearly understand why such a forum is important for the world. A group of people must come together to see whether what is happening today augurs well. ... view
• 13 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I quite agree with Hon. Pkosing that sometimes we think we are not doing well because of our elections. However, as you interact with other parliamentarians around the world and other global citizens, you conclude that we, as Kenyans, are not doing badly after all. view
• 13 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: On this global platform of the IPU, an area that I see of great interest is banning of chemical weapons. If you watched the media over the last few weeks, there is misuse of chemical weapons in Syria on innocent civilians. We have seen the use of chemical weapons also on non-combatants in some countries in the Middle East. Over the years, the ban of chemical weapons has been advanced by progressive individuals who believe that there must be weapons in the world, so long as humans inhabit this world. We need to try to reduce the number of harmful ... view
• 13 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The other area of concern which has been discussed in this Report is the UN system. It is the global platform where all voices of different countries across the world, whether big or small in land size and population, are heard. The UN provides us a unique platform where the voices of Kenya and the USA are put on the same pedestal and not a single one is more important than the other. The forum of the Kenya National Assembly must stand up against any threat that arises to undermine the UN because it stands for global good in terms ... view