Hon Rashid Kassim Amin

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Further to that, on the budget line items that have been prescribed, including for emergency, schools and security, there are other basic needs that we feel should be included so that they can be covered. Women issues and poverty alleviation should be included so that we can have a significant impact on the lives of the people we represent other than confining it to security, education and emergency. We find the three-line items to be few. We recommend that we have other line items included, which can have significant improvement in the lives of the people. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The NG-CDF is there to stay, and it is significant. It has brought remarkable improvement to the lives of the people we represent. We recommend an increase in the amount of the money allocated. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: We have also realised that the 2.5 per cent allocated to the Equalisation Fund is still lacking and may not achieve its intended purpose. As much as it is a constitutional provision, we suggest as a further amendment to transfer part of the Equalisation Fund to the NG-CDF in the respective counties that have been earmarked to benefit so that we can have a significant improvement in the NG-CDF allocation. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute and support the Motion of moving the audited reports of State corporations in Kenya. State corporations are State investments. They are supposed to be guided by the Act so that they provide certain guidelines and securities in terms of their financial transactions. Investments which are meant for Kenyans and to support development initiatives in various entities should be done prudently, in regard to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and State regulations on financing business corporations. As we adjudicate on this Committee Report, we have realised a ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The Auditor-General (AG) is mandated to provide services in auditing regulations and man auditing. We have observed that seven out of 21 State corporations used independent auditing firms. We have realised that out of them, an entire seven have been coming from the Ministry of Energy and they have been given unqualified reports. That means they had no flaws. We have realized that over the period of time that… view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The idea of using independent audit firms and allowing them to continue providing unqualified reports has made us realise that there continues to be pilferage of public funds. A number of them have been arraigned in court including the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) for that matter yet they had five years of unqualified reports. This is wanting. It does not reflect transactions that have been going on in a number of organisations. So, we suggest, as are the recommendations of this Committee, that audit of all State corporations, particularly of key institutions, should be done by the Auditor-General ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The other critical issues that we have seen is that most State corporations engage in purchase of land as a way to invest. But most of the land they invest in is not properly observed or vetted. The National Land Commission (NLC) does not do due diligence as required in terms of the ownership of the land such that a number of organisations, as we have realised, including the NSSF, the NHIF and the Kenya National Library Services (KNLS) have bought land which has queries. The ownership has not been seen. That is a clear indication to suggest that this ... view
• 22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, is it in order for an honourable Member who is in House leadership to refer us as “two Somalis” when we are not sure whether the person is from western Kenya or northern part of Kenya? view
• 22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, we are very familiar that Somali is not a language of transaction in this House. We want him to withdraw. view