Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also like to bring to your attention Article 27 of the Constitution. It says:- view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: “(1) Every person is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law. 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
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: (2) Equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and fundamental freedoms. (5) A person shall not discriminate directly or indirectly against another person on any of the grounds specified or contemplated in clause (4).” This includes discrimination on the basis of race, sex and ethnicity. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: I am saying here that the people who live in Wajir, Mandera and Garissa counties; the Somalis are being discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity. This is because we have our cousins in Somalia. We look alike and share hereditary linage. We are discriminated against because of that. Many of our people lack IDs which affects their lives. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, historically, when Kenya got Independence in 1963 and other Kenyans were celebrating, the Somalis had aspirations to join their brothers in Somalia but that did not happen. Even the referendum that was conducted at that time shows that the Somalis overwhelmingly voted to join Somalia. However, we do not wish to do that and it is good that, that referendum was not adopted. Now, we are fully in Kenya. However, why is Kenya Government denying Kenyans IDs? Why are they not being given IDs just like the rest of Kenyans? This is something that touches our ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Most of the youth contemplate joining Al Shaabab and maybe some of them have already joined. I have text messages in my phone that say that the youth do not have IDs and as such they cannot join colleges, get employment and they cannot even get basic rights. This even includes opening a bank account or accessing a Government office. If you want to access a Government office or any other office, normally you deposit your ID at the reception. If you do not have an ID or passport, how will you access services or Government offices? Even accessing the ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: cards have no means of livelihood and they will look for alternative ways of living. These people are now stateless. Actually, we have a group of Kenyans who are stateless and if something happens today, the Kenya Government cannot protect them because they do not have proof of citizenship. So, the State does not recognise them. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are asking: Are we not Kenyans? Are we, people who are living in North Eastern, second class citizens? This is what we are asking the Government. Why are we being denied identity cards? view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The second thing is that the Government has accepted a refugee camp to be opened in Dadaab. Many of our people are poor. Nowadays we have drought coming up every two to three years. During drought people lose their livestock. After this, they go and register in the nearest refugee camp and remember they are doing so because they have lost their livestock, livelihoods and all their belongings. When they register, their fingerprints are captured in the database of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Once that is done they are treated as refugees and as Somalis from ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just to clear doubts here, we are talking about Kenyans of Somali origin, who after losing their livestock and livelihoods go and register in the refugee camps just to get food. You can imagine in this day and era our people are subjected to dehumanizing situations. That means the State has failed and it cannot provide basic food and amenities to the Kenyan population. These people are forced to go to refugee camps. If they could only have food and other basic services provided by the Government, they would not register as refugees. So, we also ... view