Fatuma Ibrahim Ali

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 11 be amended in sub-clause (2) by deleting the word “sub-county” and substituting therefor the word “ward”. The amendment aims at determining the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court. Instead of sub-county, I propose to change it to ward. I propose that because some of our areas are very vast; they cover 200 to 300 kilometres. If the courts are located at the headquarters of sub-counties, residents will be limited from accessing them. They will be inaccessible to people who live almost 300 kilometres away from sub-counties. Sometimes ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to speak on this Bill. From the outset, I want to appreciate and strongly support this timely Bill. This Bill has recognised the importance of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. This is the way to protect our rich resource. Globally, the world is heading towards preserving, protecting and maintaining traditional knowledge, cultural practices and intellectual property rights. The country should have done this long time ago. The Bill is very crucial for us. In this Bill, we need to strengthen the sharing of social and economic benefits of traditional knowledge, ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: continent and our country in terms of our traditional practices and knowledge on how to bring up a healthy baby. We do not appreciate such knowledge in our country and even in our homes. We buy commercial products instead of using traditional foods which are nutritious and healthy for bringing up babies. Many international communities feel that their traditional knowledge and practices are their banks and they invest in them. In this Bill, the role of communities’ traditional knowledge and cultural experts has not been supported. We need to strengthen this Bill by providing for recognition and appreciation of traditional ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: We need to provide in the Bill a mechanism for funding specific communities and experts to produce knowledge on cultural expressions and traditional artefacts. Sometimes we do not document these traditions and people die without passing information and knowledge to our highly westernized generations. We do not bring to the media the whole discussion on our traditional knowledge, practices and cultures. It is beautiful to preserve our cultures however expensive it is. I was looking at a photo somebody sent me on how the Somali community used to construct their traditional huts. There is serious expertise on how they did ... view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for providing me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I must also support the Bill. I agree with the Members who have said that the Bill is very progressive. I start by congratulating the Chief Justice, the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for spearheading this kind of a Bill. If I were in my former position, I would have called this Bill a human rights based Bill. view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: There are three things that will enable a person to access justice particularly the poor and rural people. One is the accessibility in terms of location, language and material for communication, for example, the braille language. This Bill incorporates all that. It provides opportunity to allow the small claims courts to use the local languages so that people can understand and bring a person they have confidence in. People who are not likely to understand the court process will understand it. The Judiciary we have today thinks about rural people and those who are likely to be excluded from accessing ... view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I like the issue of the adjudicator who will help in adjudication of the claims but I have a personal concern. The adjudicator should not be a lawyer or an advocate. It should include other professions, men and women in those localities who understand the small claims. I see councils of elders consisting mostly of men but do not include women in their leadership. So, when we are looking for an adjudicator, we should expand that opportunity to include other professionals such as teachers, local clerks and others. It should also include women who understand small problems in those localities. ... view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: will be the lower level decentralised units within the sub counties. I also assume that the small courts will be mobile courts that will be moving to local areas where they can sit even under trees. That is another way of improving accessibility to justice for poor people who cannot travel or do not understand that the courts exist. view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: What I also like about this Bill is that it seeks to formalise the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanism by allowing the process to filter through the courts and making formal agreements biding in court and to be witnessed. Sometimes the challenge that we have in the informal structures is enforcement of judgements. Especially, when a judgement affects children, women and persons with disabilities elders sometimes cannot enforce it. If this is done within the small claims courts, it is likely to attract more enforcement and bring some sense of obligation on the perpetrators of those crimes. view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: The court should give a timeframe of conclusion of such small claim cases or petitions so that they are not prolonged like it happens in the ordinary courts, where a case may take a year, three years or four years. This will ensure that the spirit of the small claims court is not lost and protracted in some ways. What I like about the Small Claims Court Bill is that individuals who fear appearing before those courts, or even before the ordinary courts can be represented by their preferred individuals who sometimes might have better knowledge. Such representatives can guide ... view