Dido Ali Raso

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to support the BPS 2021/2022. I also want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The Chairman has just walked out, but I am happy that they removed the Members they did not want and retained and added those that they wanted. We wish them well. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the BPS is about certain principles that the country must study as we look at the Printed Estimates. It is about the assessment of the current economic situation. The Member who spoke before me is a former Minister for Finance. When he was in charge – there was no COVID-19 and other serious calamities then – they were able to manage the economy. We had a lot of money in our pockets and there was a lot of development and Kenya was developing so fast that today everybody wants us to go back to the Kibaki ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Authority, Coast Development Authority and many others that have a direct link with the populations in the regions they operate in. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Ministry of Finance and National Planning must be keen on the fiscal responsibility. Article 95 of the Constitution empowers this House to ensure that there is prudent and transparent management of public resources to the extent that we do not just talk about debts that are unsustainable, but the resources available for development. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: On borrowing, whether external or internal, there is currently a discussion with IMF to move the borrowing from 5743 to 2773 so that debts are manageable and do not crowd out the local environment. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Committee led by Hon. Koinange for this Bill. The major problem that we have today is drug abuse, whether it is bhang or other hard drugs. Through this Bill, we will come up with certain remedies. This Bill struck me on two areas. First is the proposed punishment. The punishment is so severe that one can almost ask: Will this Bill be enforceable? Secondly, if everything in this Bill is considered and contextualised, then we must ask ourselves how many are likely to go to jail. Hon. ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Government some legal backing to come up with regulations. Article 94 of the Constitution is very clear that it is this House that makes laws and nobody else can make enforceable laws. There are good lawyers on that Committee like Hon. Kaluma, and they should look at the Bill from a layman’s understanding. Can the person who will be enforcing laws make their own laws? The issue of surveillance is also something that we need to be careful about. Some individuals can go overboard. When they will be allowed a leeway to eavesdrop on people’s conversations, they might abuse the ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I beg to add my voice to this Bill. I am attracted to its object which is to provide a comprehensive framework for the making, scrutiny, publication and operation of statutory instruments. When we operationalised county governments in 2013, they were taken through all the systems of the National Assembly. The National Assembly, under your leadership, provided a lot of guidance. County governments lacked human resource, legal and legislative capacities. They did not have a good grasp of constitutional provisions to make laws. Through this Bill, different county assemblies will make their own local ... view
• 2 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this particular Bill. This is a very important Bill but we need to look at it alongside the statutes and some of the existing regulations. The Member for Navakholo talked about cannabis . It is out there in the market and on the streets. However, in Kenya, we have not legalised it. The street name for cannabis sativa is ‘ bhang ’ but it is categorised as a medicinal drug that can be prescribed by doctors and physicians in western countries. This Bill is also about the major ... view