Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: subjected to a very discriminatory vetting process and I want this to be taken very seriously. You can imagine that we are discriminating against our people. Our Kenyan citizens are being discriminated against. They are not being given their rights and are treated as second class citizens. These are very serious crimes which the Government is committing and I wish my colleagues would support this issue. They should treat it as a priority. I urge the Government to ensure that all Kenyans irrespective of where they come from, even if they are from Lamu or Migori get identity cards. If ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: must be checked and those who do not have identity cards cannot be allowed to pass. What does this Government of Kenya want, honestly speaking? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the situation became worse after the Westgate attack. After this attack, it seems the Government’s official policy is now to discriminate against Somalis. If you have a name similar to those found among Somalis, Arabic speaking people or Muslims you must be treated differently from the rest. Our people have applied for passports and they are lying here in Nyayo House. Their applications are not even processed. I am unable to ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I honestly want these things to be taken very seriously by the Government. However, if the Government of Kenya has become a Government that harasses, discriminates and does injustices to its own people then it is a very different thing. I urge President Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure that we are not discriminated against. I will not shy away from saying that the Somalis are discriminated against. It is a fact and it is historical! Perhaps, we are discriminated because in 1963 our grandfathers wanted to secede to Somalia but that has long gone. Some of ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: what is happening there. It is good that they did not succeed. We are fully Kenyans. However, can we get our full rights? I am urging the President that for those of us who come from those areas and who have not been subjected to--- view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am urging the President on behalf of those regions where we come from, North Eastern to remember us. Up to now we do not have any road. The other day we travelled on that road from here with Members of Parliament and they could not imagine why the Government is not tarmacking it. That is the discrimination we are talking about on every sphere of life. Even the insecurity you normally hear about is part of the discrimination because there are no enough police officers or enough security posts. So, I am urging ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: or becoming criminals. What else can somebody who completed Form Four and scored “B” or “C” do? He does not have identity card to use to look for a job and even if he got that job, what can he use to open a bank account? What else do you want him to do? He will do anything on earth. That is why we are saying we will take legal 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: action against the Government. We can do anything including going to court, petitioning the Government or moving to the United Nations to intervene in this. It is a very serious crime. It is like silent genocide that is happening. So, just to summarise, we are pleading with the Government and this House to pass this Motion so that all Kenyans including those living in Nyanza, Central, Nairobi and Kibra can be given identity cards. The other day, I talked to my County Commissioners and asked them why they have not been issuing identity cards in the last one year. They ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: It is a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Is the hon. Member in order to mislead the House when he talks about refugees? The Motion is not talking about refugees; it is talking about Kenyans who, because of poverty, have erroneously registered in the refugee database because they are looking for food that the Kenya Government cannot provide. I also want to inform him that--- view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am talking about Kenyans--- view