Farah Maalim

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am going to seek my clarifications, but before I do so, I rise on a point of order. CommuniquĂŠs, press releases and statements from the AU are not signed. Secondly, a Minister for Foreign Affairs is the authentic mandated person. So, as a Government, when a Minister says that this is the position - I seek the direction of the Chair – we do not seek any other authentication on this. view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, let me now seek my clarification. view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Much obliged, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am seeking my clarifications. To begin with, I must say that for once in a very long time, I am proud of my Ministry of Foreign Affairs and my Government too. For very long, we have never asserted our sovereignty as an independent country that actually earned its own Independence through the spilling of blood. We have acted as an appendage to the foreign policy of the super power. view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, I seek the following clarifications from the Minister. view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: First, could the hon. Minister, tell us what is our interest there? What is the volume of trade that we have with Sudan, the number of Kenyans who are working in Sudan whom I know are in the hundreds of thousands, and those doing business, including in Southern Sudan and Northern Sudan? view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Minister, my memory serves me very well. General Scott Gration, who is the Special Envoy of the President of the United States of America (USA), more precisely, Obama, has said that there is no genocide that has taken place in Darfur. Could the Minister confirm the authenticity of that to this House? Mr. Minister, the United States of America, as you stated very clearly, is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Not only is it not a signatory to the ICC, but it has got what is the called the Hague Invasion Act. Any country that ... view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Order! Order! I can stand on my very own. The fact that the current President of the United States of America has got an “O” and has the first name “Obama” Hussein and has got parents who are partly from Kenya, does not mean that he is the President of this country. It does not mean that he is any less American than any other American! But the point is--- view
• 31 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya cannot lie. If there is anything, he can only mislead. The hon. Member is out of order by saying that the Prime Minister lied. That is unparliamentary language. view
• 14 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, throughout the modern history of the world, no country has reached any meaningful level of development without having food security and having taken care of its farmers. Our policies have been those that take care of traders, millers and international conventions, but never takes care of our own farmers. Our farmers, when they produce, are told to maintain a market; do not get engaged. The World Bank, IMF and others, stopped the Government from investing in those farmers and put in a lot of money, so that farmers have a reason to farm the next season. The ... view
• 14 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could you give us a food policy? When you do policies, you do not have to do subsidies that essentially become so open that the World Trade Organization and other countries--- You cannot help farmers in Eastern Europe who are subsidized by their Governments to come dump into our markets and kill our farmers, kill our industry and create unemployment. What powerful departure from the beaten track, from 47 years of bad policies in taking care of our families, do you have for us now? view