Rehema Dida Jaldesa

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 269.

• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: We are talking about prudent utilisation of resources. It is given in the Constitution, but day in day out, we are talking about corruption. We have Ethics ad Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) which is supposed to address matters of corruption, but sadly the same people who are supposed to ensure that corruption is addressed are the same people who are engaged in corruption. These are cases which are documented and we have evidence. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I do not know why we even waste a lot of resources and time discussing policies and laws yet they are never followed. When we complain about a corrupt officer, instead of this officer being disciplined, he is transferred to another place. This is something I have personally experienced in my county of Isiolo. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The Public Service (Values and Principles) Act also talks about inclusivity. It is an issue that has raised many emotions in this House. Truth be told, all Members who have contributed about lack of inclusivity have clearly addressed the issues as they are. I come from Isiolo County. It is a county where, in all the over 300 parastatals in this country, we do not have a single Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or a Managing Director (MD). We do not have a single director in any of those parastatals. It is not that we are not learned; we are the ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: You have heard a Member list the Cabinet Secretaries and she said from northern region there is so-and-so. She is forgetting that the northern region has 42 tribes of this country. Some of our communities have never had even a single director in a parastatal. This is the kind of inclusivity we are talking about. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The Constitution under Article 204 gave us something called Equalisation Fund. From the time that fund was established to date, we have not benefitted from a single cent in the county of Isiolo. If that is not marginalisation, then I do not know what marginalisation is. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: We are talking about inclusivity and some people here talk about one kilometre one vote. We are supporting the BBI process because it is giving us a voice. Even if it will not go anywhere, at least it will give us an opportunity to speak. That is why some of us are saying, “one man, one vote, one shilling” because the issue of allocation of resources is not only about population. We have the land mass to talk about. We have issues of historical marginalisation. We cannot run away from that. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: There is the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 where resources then were given to areas known as high potential and some of us were left in the wilderness. When I interact with my colleagues, their argument is, “Oh, you have to go like 20 to 50 kilometres to find people in Isiolo County.” How can you find people in Isiolo County when we only have one tarmac road that connects Nairobi and Moyale? The rest of the county does not have any tarmac road. How do you expect people from Central to come there? view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is the kind of marginalisation we are talking about. Devolution was meant to address the issue we are talking about today, which is equity and equality in public service. The governors who were elected, instead of ensuring that there is equity, they are now marginalising people further. Inequality is being devolved to the 47 counties. That is very sad. Why am I saying this? Employment in our counties is given to their political cronies and their clan members. When you see an advert in the newspapers for a position, you already know that so-and-so will ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to also support this candidate. As a member of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, I participated in the rigorous vetting process of one Solomon Kitungu, the nominee for Principal Secretary for State Department of Transport. This is one candidate who has demonstrated a lot of capacity, especially technical, in as far has his appointment is concerned. He was able to convince this Committee that given the chance, he will turn around the transport sector within a short time. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: A lot has been said about him in as far as academic is concerned. What impressed me the most is the fact that for the 35 years he was in public service, he did not have a single incident of corruption or integrity issue. I was also impressed with his level of understanding of the market. Therefore, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I highly support the nomination of this candidate. view