Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1081 to 1090 of 1945.

• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am not talking about indigenous trees and others. I am asking the Ministry why it cannot have a blanket ban of logging in Mt. Kenya before it becomes a desert. Why can we not have a ban on logging of whatever you want to call them? view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I insist that the Assistant Minister is not answering my question. He is going round and round. He has already said that it is worth Kshs35 billion. That is understating the fact that there is commercial interest; that certain forest officers want to make money out of it. Why can we not have a blanket ban? We do not want to hear the issue of commercial trees or anything. We said that not even a creeper should be cut in that place. Why can we not just gazette for a blanket ... view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, he has not answered the question. view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to congratulate Dr. Monda and the House for passing this Bill. Cancer is seen as a sickness for the rich. Actually, it is not. It is very much for the poor and I hope that the Minister is listening because he is not listening. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, could you ask the Minister to give his ears? view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, actually, the Minister is not listening but I am saying that cancer is a disease which should have been for the poor. The very fact that the Minister himself had to go out of the country to seek very expensive treatment, the two Ministers must know that the poor cannot do that. I will be waiting to see when the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Memorial General Hospital will get equipment for cancer treatment. By the Minister going abroad has made people aware of cancer but they are saying that it is for the rich and not ... view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: I will speak very shortly. I support this Report. The Transition Authority is one of the mainstays of devolution. However, we are finding that although part of the transition Bills states that no local authority shall sell property, I was astounded to see the Kisumu County Council advertising a property for sale. I raised the issue with the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government, Mr. Mudavadi and he seemed to have ignored our pleas. I have taken up the matter now with the Acting Minister who has now informed me that he has stopped that sale. At ... view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, two weeks ago, I requested for an urgent Statement from the Minister for Transport in respect to the incident that took place at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) where Egypt Air Flight skidded. The Speaker ruled that the Minister gives the Statement the following day but we have not had it to date. In light of the other accidents that we have had, could the Minister tell us when we can have a report on the facilities at the JKIA? What postmortem has been done in respect to that particular accident? view
• 13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this very worthy amendment Bill. I do not want to repeat many of the things that have been said, but there are certain issues that I want to raise in the Bill. First is the issue of road blocks. In Kisumu, at the Mamboleo area, road blocks are the cause of accidents and they have actually caused the death of over 100 people in the last six months. They are not a hindrance, but a hazard. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of defective vehicles is not covered very clearly in this ... view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to bring to your attention an unaccompanied bag here that is causing a bit of concern and we do not whose it is. I know it has been screened but it is causing a bit of concern. It is a black one. view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Minister in order to say that the scientific names he has given are local names? They are not Luo names for the fish. They are purely scientific names and the Minister should be aware of them. view