Hassan Omar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 871 to 880 of 892.

• 15 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, for recognising me. That said and done, I want to talk in a different context about national disasters and the impact of these in terms of the Kenyan poor. The impact of national disasters is that they compound the already desperate situations that people live in. No matter how much blankets that the Red Cross and the politicians bring, this hardly compensates for every form of effect that the Kenyan poor have toiled to put to their personal worth. I have also seen this in Mombasa. When rains hit us very hard, Kenya’s biggest ... view
• 14 May 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for that extremely wise ruling. view
• 14 May 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I stand here to second this Motion by my brother Sen. Murkomen, Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet. As a Senate, we need to assert our fundamental role in the Constitution as those who protect the interest of the county administration. It is not in doubt that systematically one institution after another has tried to define and undermine the role of the Senate, county assemblies and devolution. I am reliably informed by my friends from Mandera that each county assembly member in Mandera County is a university graduate. That is the kind of seriousness at the county level. We, as ... view
• 14 May 2013 in Senate: I beg to support. view
• 8 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is quite an opportunity for me to speak after the Chairperson of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations. The Senate gives us a fresh opportunity to assist the Government in rethinking its shift in terms of paradigm of insecurity. We have failed in the last 50 years in bringing proactive security in this country. We have also got it wrong when it comes to bringing reactive security. Most of you may understand that proactive security is when you capacitate the citizens to keep the peace. When His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta ... view
• 8 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I did not think that I will not have something to say about Sen. Mutula to essentially get us to the close of Business today. Mine is just to wish all those who are going well. I know that our Leaders of Majority and Minority will be there, so I do believe that those who will make it should represent us with the kind of gravitas that is deserved; so should our Speaker, who I believe will also be attending that event. As Sen. Orengo has said, Sen. Mutula is a man who people ... view
• 7 May 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I come here to second the Motion and the amendment to the Motion on the basis that we all realize that education plays the most critical role in terms of our development agenda. In fact, during the civil rights movement of the United States of America (USA), many believed that equality can be best be promoted through education. For me, I do not think it is just about the physical structure called the university as alluded to by some of our colleagues, hon. Senators. I do believe that the university and the middle level colleges will ... view
• 30 Apr 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the people of Mombasa, I wish also to register our heartfelt condolences to the family of Mutula the former Senator for Makueni. He was my Minister at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) when he was in the Ministry of Justice National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs. For that reason, I will recollect some of our great moments when he was in that Ministry. I will share in what Sen. Orengo has just said that in Mutula we had a man who aspired to do the right thing. In this country, ... view
• 30 Apr 2013 in Senate: On Thursday I was having lunch with the former Prime Minister, so it has to be Wednesday. So, that said and done, it is important when we come to these kind of fora, our facts are more accurate because it then tests our entire consciousness as a country. This is because next time somebody would say I was with Raila Odinga on Thursday. How could it have happened? So, it was important to correct that particular set of facts. We need to eulogise him and to share in the pain of their family and to tell The electronic version of ... view
• 24 Apr 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Like my colleagues before me, first and foremost, I want to thank the people of Mombasa County, which is Kenya’s second biggest city, for voting me in as the inaugural Senator under our new Constitution. Mombasa County is also listed in the Constitution as County No.1. Therefore, constitutionally, Mombasa County has an obligation to be No.1 in terms of providing cutting edge leadership around devolution and many other things within the Senate. Like my previous colleagues, I also want to congratulate hon. Senators for having been elected as Senators of ... view