Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1211 to 1220 of 1945.

• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Would I be in order move that the Mover be now called upon to reply given the mood of the House? view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister, kindly, tell us whether the vehicles and the road construction equipment that was purchased with this grant is in the name of the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB), and if so, why individual companies have put their own logos and addresses on the machines? Why have they not put the name of the KSB? view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Assistant Minister is not being very clear. He has just said that the equipment belongs to the company. I thought that he earlier on told us that the equipment is the property of the KSB. Can he be very clear? Who owns the machinery? view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister has said that he is waiting for money from the Treasury. That is a very old story. Could he clarify whether the request was made to the Treasury and placed in a budget, whether supplementary or whichever it was? Could he confirm that, that was done and that it is the Treasury that is holding the money or tell us whether he did not make the request, in the first place, in the right format? view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Minister has just said that his Ministry did not give any commitment, whereas the Prime Minister of this country gave that commitment. Is the Assistant Minister now saying that his Ministry is not subject to the commitment given by the Prime Minister? view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is a tragedy in Kenya that we are always in this situation. There is an old saying which says that if it is not broken, do not fix it. I am still at a loss to understand why a person like Prof. Mengech, who has served that institution for a number of years and served it well, should not have been considered on the basis only of some alleged corruption. Was he charged in court? Was he made aware of it? He has run that organisation, to my knowledge, professionally. Organisations like this--- ... view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Prof. Mengech has been there and he left. We do not know how he did that, but the hospital has gone from bad to worse. It is about time now that maybe the professor is an old man and does not need to continue, but what efforts are being made to institutionalize hospital management? view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all over the world, hospitals are no longer run by doctors. Hospitals are run by health administrators. They are professionals. You do not need surgeons and professional doctors to be walking all over and making sure that the grass is cut and that our human resources are well utilized. Big hospitals fail because of lack of proper management. So, although the Committee has looked at the issue of the modalities, I would have wanted to hear from it that there must be steps to institutionalize all these health facilities in a way that they will no ... view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: In the same breath, I would like to bring out another point. The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has had its problems, but over the past several years, there was a Dr. Micheni and he did very well. He institutionalized systems, worked hard and left a system working. That system is working even without Dr. Micheni. My concern is how come in service organizations which are very critical to the running of this country--- We are more concerned about ethnicity and people than who is the right person to run that hospital? My own humble submission is that the KNH was ... view
• 1 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not suggest that he was not a doctor. There are lots of doctors. There are some sitting here behind me. It does not mean that you are trained to run an institution like the MTRH. You may not be trained to run that hospital if you have the background of running an institution like the prisons. I think that is my point. I think that one thing is very important. Let us not personalize these issues like the running of hospitals. They are nobody’s property but property of the people of Kenya, and we ... view