Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 181 to 190 of 1945.

• 26 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table: Report of the Kenyan Delegation to the 2023 Parliamentary Dialogue on United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and Global Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC) Annual General Meeting, held in Doha, Qatar from 8th to 9th March 2023. view
• 26 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House notes the Report of the Kenya Delegation to the Parliamentary Dialogue on United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and Global Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) Annual General Meeting, held in Doha, Qatar from 8th to 9th March 2023, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 26th April, 2023 . view
• 22 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support… view
• 22 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: I was calculating if they need 30 minutes for the Mover to reply since I might be running short of time, but you have assured me that, that is not the case. view
• 22 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the Report of the Public Debt and Privatisation Committee. I was in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for 15 years. This time, I am not a member of the Committee. Every time we asked the same question regarding public debt – and our declared public debt is Ksh8.9 trillion – we are told that there is a public debt office and it is public information. I personally went to that office at the Treasury. It is on the first floor, hidden in a corner where they have put ... view
• 22 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: me one and a half hours to get a basic report for 2018, which was full of gaps. They said the report is public and anyone could get it, but that is false. Under the Public Finance Management Act, there is a Public Debt Management Office. Every year, the National Treasury has to give authority for the office to operate. In Britain, there is an autonomous public debt office. Here, the office is hidden in a corner and not recognised. The officers just waste time. In 2021, the National Treasury made a promise to us on payment of expensive commercial ... view
• 22 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Public Debt Management Office is meant to be an autonomous office, but the National Treasury decides what it wants and how much money it needs to borrow. The office looks for the most suitable place to borrow money from at the best rate. They are meant to be professionals in raising money from the money market. But what are they doing? They are doing nothing. What happens is that the Cabinet Secretary goes to IMF to meet the so-called vulture financiers. They agree on short-term debt for long-term projects and then they come back and tell ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this consideration of Session Paper No. 1 of 2022. There was a Session Paper No.9 in 1965 but we never did anything. It was a beautiful Session Paper that was borrowed and used by Singapore, Malaysia and others. We did the work; they did the implementation. The biggest problem that we face is implementation. The National Automotive Policy is nothing new. It has been there in many countries such as Nigeria, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and many other countries. We are basically The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: following the old routine. Just because certain countries have an automotive policy, we now think we must have one. I have read the 44 pages of this Automotive Policy. I am sorry to say it is a good idea but I think it could have been better if it was implemented 20 years ago. Now, they have come up with it again in another form of seeking to create an enabling environment for the automotive sector to realise its full potential and position as a major player in the industry and also aims to improve local automotive assembly ecosystem to ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: this but in a new way, like we did with M-PESA. We did not go for those old analogue machines; we went for change. So, the change we want is hybrid and electric. view