Mohamed Abdi Haji Mohamed

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 31 to 40 of 66.

• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. From the outset, let me say that I am a Member of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, which prepared this Report. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: As a Committee, we looked at this petition. The petition sought to achieve a goal that was not achievable through the ballot on 4th March, 2014 and, subsequently, through the presidential election petition that was presented to the Supreme Court. So, basically, what was not achievable through the ballot and the court process is what this petition is seeking to achieve through this House. Therefore, it is an abuse of the process of this House. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in exercising his right to petition Parliament, the Petitioner presented a textbook presentation of how Commissioners are supposed to be removed from office. It was a classical textbook presentation. There was neither substantiation nor evidence. Therefore, it can only be concluded that the CORD coalition just wants to hoodwink the public by pretending to be active and fighting to stay relevant. This person did not do his homework. There is no homework to be done. The IEBC Commissioners did their job perfectly. So, it looks like they are just playing to the gallery and hoodwinking the public. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Some of the facts that the Petitioner wanted to rely on are, for example, the number of election petitions that were presented to the High Court. We know that some petitions are still in court. We also know that out of the 15 elections that were nullified, except in one case, the electorate re-elected the same persons they had elected on 4th March, 1993. Therefore, the IEBC Commission generally did its work fairly given the fact that the same persons were re-elected during the by-elections. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Commission needs to be congratulated because they delivered their mandate under difficult circumstances and challenges. For the first time in the history of this country’s elections, they presided over six-in-one election and produced results. It is true that there were challenges and lots of shortcomings, but those challenges do not warrant the sending home of the Commissioners. As a Committee we are asking ourselves, what are the problems that are lying there? We have decided that before the next general elections we will improve on what is available and have better results and performance from IEBC. It ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support this Report. view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. From the outset, I want to say that I oppose this Bill in the strongest terms possible. Firstly, this Bill has been prepared in a hurry. It is not a well thought-out Bill. Probably, it was meant for settling political scores in the ongoing supremacy war. Therefore, we should not be drawn into that war by this Bill. We cannot sit in a forum that authorises public expenditure and then come back to Parliament and purport to oversee that same forum. We will not have the moral authority to ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what this Bill seeks to do is already being done through another Act of Parliament. The Constituencies Development Fund Act, in Section 36, says:- “There shall be established for every county a committee to be known as county projects committee whose main function shall be to co-ordinate the implementation of projects financed through this fund.” view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: As a House, we should appreciate that the forum being sought through this Bill has already been provided for in an existing Act of Parliament. We just need to slightly amend that provision. If you read through the Act, you will appreciate that all the persons that this Bill seeks to include in the committee have been included in the CDF Act. Therefore, we should not be legislating in futility. This is a duplication of effort. We have already legislated. We have Section 36 of the CDF Act, which provides for a forum. Therefore, we do not need to create ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, lastly, as a House, we should be tasking our mind on one issue. Yes, we have devolved funds. Yes, the governors have funds to spend. The problem is that the governors have discretionary powers on how to spend the money. It is possible that the governors can exclude some constituencies because of certain reasons. What we need to do, as a House, is legislating to compel governors to spend certain amounts of money in constituencies directly, so that all constituencies in a given county can develop together. view