Farhiya Ali Haji

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I thank the Mediation Committee for doing an amazing job. This now takes the Bill to the next level and it is going to be assented to. There are very few Bills from the Senate that end up at the National Assembly that proceed to the next level. This is a very big win for Senate. I join my colleagues in congratulating the Senior Counsel and the Members of this Committee for doing a brilliant job. If we have a professor there and a senior counsel, things cannot go wrong. ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Another issue that came to our Committee on Finance and Budget is that the ECDE not properly funded by counties. That is tragic because the foundation is the beginning of everything. How that child progresses in life and how the brain develops all depends on their basic education. view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I urge our governors to be more serious with ECDE and allocate more funding to it. More so now that we are hoping that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will pass and that there will be 35 per cent more allocation to the counties, I think they should take advantage of that additional funding to ensure that ECDE is funded and is commensurate to its requirement and importance. Madam Deputy Speaker, since there is a Bill harmonizing ECDE throughout counties and a basis for all the decisions that the governors need to make, I think this is ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: As our House, we need to prioritise Bills so that we are able to make a difference and support devolution given that there is more money. There is a lot that needs to be done now in counties so that they can make a difference to the people who belong to those counties, those who really wanted the devolution, and those who passed the Constitution of Kenya 2010 overwhelmingly and have benefited immensely from that process. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish to condole with the family. I know that no number of condolences or words can take care of their pain. They are in a painful period and wish the Almighty God will ease their pain. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in Senate: We popularly referred Sen. Haji as baba because of the fatherly figure he provided for everyone in whichever political side, you knew that you could count on him. The shoes of Sen. Haji are too big for any of us to fit in. I pray that by the time we leave this world, we will have achieved even half of what he achieved in terms of public service for betterment of this country and the world over. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in Senate: "Madam Deputy Speaker," I also had a personal experience with Sen. Haji. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in Senate: Sorry. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I had a personal experience with Sen. Haji. There was a brewing conflict in my community in Wajir that I did not know what to do about. I approached him and explained what was happening. I gave him a clip of somebody speaking to him. I told him: “Can you bring the two of us together, so that we speak about this issue?” He told me that it would bring confrontation, which he did not want. However, he wanted to solve the problem once and for all. He said: “I will not tell the person ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in Senate: Sen. Haji will be missed greatly by my community and any other pastoral community that had conflicts amongst them. That thing disappeared and I have never heard about that issue again. Those communities live together up to today and there is no problem. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, he also was a father figure. Sometimes you feel like you have achieved something and he acknowledges that you have achieved that and encourages you to do something just like any other father would do for their sons or daughters. He was also a team player. It did not matter whatever he believed ... view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to your communication. I agree with everybody that we have to be nice to each other. We have many Bills which have been returned from the National Assembly. We need everybody to pass those Bills because some of them are our own as individuals in this House. Unless we cooperate with each other, the Bills we have worked so hard to produce will go down the drain for nothing. Party issues belong to the party. In terms of individuals, let us be human before anything else. view