Hon Rashid Kassim Amin

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to give my observations on and articulate about this matter. It is of great significance to the pastoral communities and is affecting the people of Northern Kenya. The drought that is ravaging the people of Northern Kenya is equally affecting nearly 25 counties. It is a problem that is affecting the livelihoods of about 8 million people. view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Children are not going to schools because the schools do not have water. There is livestock movement from where they are domiciled. They are crossing the border to as far as Somalia, causing disputes among communities. It is important that the NDMA, which is mandated to provide technical information, plans so that it can give the necessary information for prediction purposes. It needs to do its work. view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Okay. Drought is predictable and has timelines. Even the vegetation cover can give indicators of drought, but if there is no proper information sharing on drought weather, then whatever we do as a nation is insignificant. Around 8 million people and their livelihood are being affected. Children are not going to school. Movement of livestock from our boundary to Somalia is huge. My constituency has a number of wells which provide water but there is a high population density in those places. They are staying there for nearly 24 hours before they can get water and some of them have ... view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: We urge the Government to remunerate properly and give adequate finances to the KDF to man KMC so that we can have adequate uptake of people in Northern Kenya and they can have cash so that they can pay school fees and purchase food for their livestock. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the other intervention that has been there is through the NDMA that is purely remunerated through the budgetary allocations to discharge its functions. They do not have any money. We urge the Executive, through the National Treasury, to create a drought contingency fund to be rolled out so that they ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am really glad for the time you have given Members to articulate this matter. You seem to understand the issues affecting Members of Parliament. That is why we support you in your endeavour to become the CEO of this country in the future. view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much for giving us ample time. It is a fact that you also come from a rural area like where we come from. You know education is quite important in our regions. Thank you very much. Hon. Speaker, there are certain issues that need to be understood. These issues are very unique to us, particularly those of us who support education and feel that education is an equalizer in terms of improving the social standards of our people. In northern Kenya, we have been affected by a number of challenges in terms of education. The policy of ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: The other challenge we have is teaching. There are certain regulations that the Ministry of Education is trying to bring on board without considering the challenges that we have in terms of teacher-student ratio. The Teachers Service Commission has scrapped Primary Teacher 1 (P1) cadre. We no longer have P1 teachers. That means those children who were able to attend P1 courses because of their poor grades in KCSE can no longer go for P1 teaching courses. They have to qualify for diploma courses and above. These new policies being implemented by the Ministry of Education have negated our chances ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this WAQF Bill initiated through the House. Waqf is an extremely useful endowment fund used over the years in a number of Islamic countries. It is useful in the sense that it is a willing collection of individual contributions from individual members to this endowment fund. It has a certain set of criteria of ways on where it is to be used and how. Currently, these payments in terms of Waqf are ordinarily done either individually or publicly. There is no formal structure or institution able to formalise, use and ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: So, clearly as we proceed to the Third Reading, we will be able to make an amendment so that this Waqf fund is not only associated with a specific religion or group of the society; rather it should provide certain criteria on how it is going to be used. It should be clear how it is going to be structured and how it is going to be disbursed so that it is an acceptable endowment fund. Also, the Government should be able to follow up on it. Currently, there could be some other funds which are set up in very ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, before I proceed, allow me to thank you, on behalf of the people of Wajir, for visiting Wajir County despite your busy schedule as we rolled out some development initiatives. view