Amb. Mohammed Abdi Affey

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the hon. Member in order to continue to mislead the House? We have never questioned the competence of Dr. Onudi; we have questioned the process the Minister used to appoint him. So, do not mislead the House! view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. I want to begin by acknowledging and congratulating the new Minister for Agriculture because it is quite rare for Ministers to stay in the House when matters concerning their docket are being debated. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the matter raised in this Motion is fundamental to the survival of Kenya. As a country, we have refused to acknowledge that food security is a very critical factor in Kenya’s survival. I disagree with Mr. Mungatana, when he says that what we pass is mare persuasion. We have reformed our Standing Orders and we now have an Implementation Committee. We expect the Implementation Committee to pick up and focus on this matter once the Motion is passed. So, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and the ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am sad that the Government has refused to fund the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands, which was basically intended to make sure that 80 per cent of the land mass in this country is utilized. You cannot create a Ministry to perform functions that you require and yet you undermine it and frustrate it by not funding it. We want to tell the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance that we will be vigilant this time round. If the Budget that he will read before the House on Thursday ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if 2,000 acres in every constituency are irrigated, then there is the possibility of creating employment opportunities so that many young people in the constituency will have something meaningful to do. If this is done, then there is a possibility to fight poverty at the grassroots level. Therefore, the lives of view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: people will improve. This can be done but the Government is reluctant to do it because even the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation require funding in the first place. The officers who work in the Treasury have no idea how Kenya looks like. At least, I know some of them. They do not even know this country because they have never travelled outside Nairobi. Therefore, when they allocate money, they do so based on what they see from where they come from. Due to the fact that the Treasury is not balanced in terms of ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: If there was a possibility to irrigate 2,000 acres in every constituency in Kenya and particularly, in northern Kenya or North Eastern Province, which has very fertile land but has no capacity for irrigation due to scarcity of water--- You only require to drill 110 metres in Habaswein where I come from to supply water to the City of Nairobi for 200 years. If you can supply water to the City of Nairobi for 200 years, what is the possibility of using that resource to irrigate land? We can not only feed Kenya but the whole of East and Central ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can imagine that in the whole of northern Kenya, there is no single research institution. If this was done in the 11 constituencies of North Eastern Province, then the Government will also be compelled to established research institutions in those areas to see what kind of crops do well there. We could as well grow many other crops but there is no possibility of knowing because there is no desire to irrigate the land or provide funds. That is why I request the Minister for Agriculture to consider the possibility of establishing many institutions ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: understand the knowhow to use the water that these boreholes generate, we can have small-scale irrigation so that people can have small farms where they can be able to grow vegetables and sell them to the local markets and, it can spur economic development. There is no desire as I see under the current constitutional dispensation for the Government to move in this format. That is why, as a country, we must vote very resoundingly for Yes in order to change the design or structure of Kenyans. If we do not change the design or the structure, we will continue ... view
• 8 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, part “a” of the Question requires the Assistant Minister to provide a list of all the members of Unito Co-operative Society. It is apparent that she does not have the list. Is it, therefore, in order for her to continue answering the Question? view