Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1321 to 1330 of 1945.

• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion. Kenya is a country of 40 billionaires and 40 million paupers. Unfortunately, it is run by the 40 billionaires who do not really care about the sufferings of the poor. Sixty per cent of the people of this country live below the poverty line. This “I do-not-care” attitude of the Government, the Ministers and the rich, is shown clearly here in Parliament where the Government Bench is empty. The Assistant Minister, office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance has just turned up. view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes he is here, but where is the Minister for Energy? There was a Minister not that long ago, who, instead of empathizing with the poor said that Kshs2, 000 is very little because he spends it only on lunch. He is totally out of touch with the poor. Unless you have felt hunger, you will not know how it feels to be hungry. view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: This is a capitalist economy. It has been so since Independence and before. My history teaches me that it was never a capitalist nation. Before the colonialist came, Kisumu got its name because it would give food to the poor for free if there was famine on the other side. The African society does not believe in hunger. It does not believe that your neighbor can be hungry and you are eating. However, we have become Europeanized and capitalist. We have been told that we must be liberalized and have a free economy. Even Britain and America are not free ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: this country use one car per person, but even in Europe and America, the Government has stated that cars should not be driven empty and people should share. Then they put congestion charges to make sure that we do not waste a lot of money in traffic jams. Yesterday, I was in a traffic jam for two and half hours. Imagine how much petrol I used. These price controls must be there. It must work and the “I do not care” attitude of the Government and others must change, whether we go back to price controls or whatever you want ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: We are laughing yet when you go to Europe, Ministers use bicycles. Even if you saw at the International Criminal Court (ICC) the prosecutor came on a bicycle. It is not a joke! We can do this! I think we need to promote other ways to tell the producers and suppliers of fuel that if the cost is not right, we are not going to buy fuel from them. With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Minister in order to say that the only role of Parliament and the Budget Committee is to approve the Budget? Has he not read the Act which puts the responsibility of budgets with the Budget Committee? view
• 26 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Minister in order to suggest that an institution that has been condemned, and for which his own ministry will not give an occupation certificate, should be used illegally? Is he in order? view
• 26 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very surprised with the answer that we were given. I know for sure that each local authority has a town engineer. The impression I have is that the projects were implemented in the school, but we are not told whether the town engineer inspected the constructions before payment was made. Could the Assistant Minister be very clear whether the town engineer was involved at every stage? If so, did he do his job because it appears that he did not? view
• 26 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Assistant Minister in order to ignore answering the question whether the Government engineer was involved in the project all the time and not only when the Ministry of Public Works came in? view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to ask the Minister whether he can tell us where the Airport Tax that is collected is credited. Does it go to the Kenya Airports Authority? Does it form part of the national Budget or does it not? view