Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1661 to 1670 of 1945.

• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the draft as it is. The process of changing the Constitution has taken a long time. The only perfect Constitutions that I know of are the Bible and the Holy Quran. There is no other perfect Constitution. We can continue to improve on this Constitution with time. We will be judged harshly by our citizens. The people who voted for me to come here have said to me: “We want our right. We want this Katiba to be completed. We want it as it is.” Why are we trying to change it ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I am totally against the issue of regions. I think it is creating many openings for people to go tribal, to be misused and to have little kingdoms. Governments come from below and not from above. Regions are above counties. However, counties are the actual deliverers of service. Even if we had 47 counties, they can also be effective in policy making because they are closer to the people. It is not somebody in a region who will be in a position to understand--- The Senate is there and it will be corrective. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I want to support the issue of counties as it has been set up in the proposed Constitution. The counties were meant to be an umbrella to the Provincial Administration as it was going to be “collapsed” together with the local authorities into a service delivery. The county was going to be near the people. It would have powers. We would have county governors and county representatives who are councilors or administrators. I do not want to dwell too much on this. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Democracy is based on the sovereignty of the people. The people of Kisumu Town East, say that they want the proposed Constitution as it is. They are saying: “We are tired of Members of Parliament and others going around to change it. Give us what is 80 per cent good and then we can wait for the rest later.” The Constitution that we rejected in the referendum was 85 per cent good, but because of politics, we rejected it. view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: to ask the Minister for Information and view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Communications:- view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (a) Could the Minister update the House on the status of the Information view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Communication and Technology Project for each constituency planned to be view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: funded through the Economic Stimulus Package? view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (b) Could the Minister confirm whether he will supply desktop computers view