Dr. Mohammed Abdi Kuti

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are contributing to a very important Bill. We are also trying to portray the Senate as a House that is serious and is addressing challenges of Kenyans out there. I do not think theatrics here will help us in any way, and I think you should guide us, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with all due respect, so that debates are reasonable and portray the kind of maturity that Senators are expected to posses. view
• 23 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Senator in order to bring theatrics in this Motion? view
• 23 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Some of us are professionals and we are not accidentally here. Therefore, we should be taken very seriously. I do not think trying to please individuals who are mourning wounds will not help us in any way here. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, being a doctor and also the Chair of the Committee that Sen. Linet sits in, we have brought this matter up in almost every meeting that we attend and promises have been made which have not been met. I think we need to have a conclusion on the matter that has just been raised. Thank you. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I think we should all follow the Senator for Tana River in being brief and precise. I stand to support this Bill. This is the first and crucial Bill we are discussing. It is what will set the pace for the counties to do what they have planned and budgeted to do. I would like to echo everybody’s concerns regarding the fact that loading counties with functions and responsibilities without accompanying these with funding is setting them up for failure. Also, loading counties with functions and responsibilities without the accompanying function assessment and capacity building ... view
• 17 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it is with a light touch. Well, the hope is that the poor will go to heaven, let us hope so. But I hope heaven will not also follow the same law. Madam Temporary Speaker, I stand here to say that there are projects in which I think the national Government has been left with 85 per cent of the money. Of course, we know through the budgets where it will go. This money being allocated right now is very little. A lot of it, will go to pay salaries, with very little of it to do ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for bringing up this very important Motion which touches on the lives of pastoralists, whose mainstay is actually livestock. I would like to take you back to the history of livestock in this country. Livestock rearing has been with us all through but the formal farming started being organized during colonial days in 1890s. The country was divided into the uncontrollable, into outer, and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be ... view
• 2 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I stand here to support this very important Motion. I am sure this issue of drug abuse sends chills up the spines of all of us seated here. I am sure, even seated in this House, there are parents or relatives of ours here who either we know or are personally affected by the problem of drug abuse; be it alcohol, heroine, miraa, cigarettes or bhang. So, it is affecting every home. Everybody in this House has in one way or another suffered from this problem or they know ... view
• 2 Jul 2013 in Senate: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am sorry. view