Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as hon. Lentoimaga said, you cannot tell who is in charge of security in the counties. Everybody says that they are independent of each other. I do not want to go into any further detail. The question is: Who is in charge of our security? People are killed but no action is taken. What would such scenario lead to eventually? It leads to proliferation of small arms. Everybody knows that we are surrounded by countries where firearms are in plenty. If you are a pastoralist looking after your camels and you feel threatened, what would you ... view
• 10 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: son who is not well behaved. Before you know it, he uses the gun to kill somebody. The next day he needs some money, he sells it to somebody who brings it to Nairobi. So, the whole country becomes awash with illegal firearms just because we are not giving basic policing services. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I call policing “basic service” because when something happens to somebody, he needs to report somewhere and see action being taken. I am afraid to say that, at the moment, such action is probably confined to around Nairobi. Elsewhere and, specifically in northern Kenya, ... view
• 10 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Letimalo talked about who is in charge. The Constitution is clear. The Inspector General is in charge. If he is not, then this Parliament should deal with that office. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to support this Motion because it is very important. However, I want to bring another aspect of this Motion in order to support farmers across the country. Hon. Serem, a few minutes ago, said that 79 per cent of milk in Kenya is produced in Rift Valley and Central provinces. We know for a fact that 70 per cent of livestock comes from the pastoral areas. The statistics that he has is actually the black hole of statistics of this country where parts of this country or the Kenya that we consider ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Security is absolutely necessary for any production or development to take place in the north. So, how are those farmers expected to take milk to the consumers? While we are building access roads to people’s farms and factories, the Class A Roads in northern Kenyan are not yet done. So, that population that forms 15 per cent of this country and occupies 70 per cent of our land mass does not even factor in the market. So, infrastructure is key, if those farmers are going to market their animals and milk and, therefore, be part of this country’s economy. At ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: This is a very important Motion, but all the aspects that are going to support the farmer must be brought out to ensure that we maximize, produce and give them competitive prices. Without competitive prices farmers will remain poor. We will have this huge divide between the very rich and the very poor people and, in the words of the late J.M. Kariuki, be a country of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars. Now, you can multiply that by 100 since that time. That will continue. The backbone of the economy of this country are the small-scale farmers in agriculture, ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you and I support. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I want to say that I support this Motion. It is a trying time for Kenya because insecurity is all over the country and on behalf of the constituency of Tarbaj, I want to send my condolences to the victims of the Westgate Mall siege. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, cattle rustling is a crime. It is robbery with violence. Hon. Joyce said that some of the hon. Members do not understand it. Northern Kenya has for a long time not been understood. I support this Motion but I want it to be broadened beyond cattle rustling. It is inter-communal conflicts in those areas. The number of people who die annually from West Pokot all the way to Lamu from insecurity that is either related to cattle rustling or inter-communal conflicts is shocking. It is hundred times over what has happened in Westgate. The electronic version ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so, I underline the words in this Motion that we need to change the strategy of dealing with conflicts in northern Kenya. Small arms have not only penetrated northern Kenya but now we can see they are everywhere else in the country. Unless we completely change tact and strategy which is one of the things which this Motion is calling for, we shall continue to lose our people and also continue to have areas that are not developed. Vision 2030 is very clear, you cannot have development unless you have security and basic education. They are ... view