Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 201 to 210 of 1945.

• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have not commented on this one. The proponent of the bottom-up economic model seems to have gotten the menace. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: My comment relates to the fact that this illegal action is taking place and people are being shot dead. Last week, I buried one officer from the police unit. He was my constituent. He was shot in Laikipia as a result of insecurity. Insecurity must be brought to an end. It is born out of the quest for land and grazing rights. Before the colonialists came and turned that area into highlands and subsequently left it for a selected few, it was grazing land for the Maasais and other pastoralists. No person who wishes to live in harmony with his ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: It is no longer acceptable that territories which were used by pastoralists – be they the Maasai, the Samburu or people from Northern Kenyan and others – should be taken away and the owners deprived of the right over those territories just by a title deed. The title deed was introduced in Kenya by the British after the conquest of our land. That means we have borne some of that problem. The sooner the ownership of that land reverts to its original communities, the better. Thank you. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank my colleague for the answer but he has definitively not responded to one or two issues that were raised. He states that the 18,236 Pakistanis who abnormally came into the country within a short period of four months were here legally. Then why were they arrested? Why were they harassed? Why were they taken to a police station at a later stage and then released under very questionable circumstances? That is the first point. Secondly, I asked, in my Statement Request, whether it is normal for any country to receive 18,000 people from one ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: So, we have done it? If everything is normal, then why did they arrest them? Those are the questions we need to ask, and I keep asking: What happened to the money? Has it gone into the Consolidated Fund or has somebody benefited? Why has the Government been so quiet on this issue over the last six months? It has been very quiet. You will not find any country taking in 18,000 people at once unless it is the United States of America, which takes thousands of people. Taking in 18,000 people in Kenya from one country is questionable as ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Where did the 18,000 tourists go to? Did they go to the Maasai Mara? They were begging for food here. They were poor people. They had no money. They could not even afford water. Is that how we treat tourists? If we are very good to refugees, it is very nice… If we are being used as a transit centre, then we should be paid good money and let us have a centre where they come in and be isolated from the rest of the community, after which they leave the country. We can even have big hotels ready for ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to second. As the Leader of Majority has said, this defunct Fund has done nothing since 1986. It is the same as the Asian Widow’s and Orphan’s Pensions Fund. What beats me is that both Funds have a Board and infrastructure. They have done absolutely nothing and the last transactions were in 1986 and 1987. It is good to wind it up and I am sure there are such other defunct Funds that were set up by the colonial government. The Majority Leader has been kind, this Fund was only meant for ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to address the issue of the Asian widows’ pension. Firstly, my understanding is that the last real transactions took place in the 1980s. Since then, there have not been any transactions on this particular Fund yet there is a board that sits somewhere and has been paid for the last nearly 40 years. We want to understand what this particular board does. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: My grandmother used to get a pension through the crown agents. We know we are repealing it, which is very important but at the same time, we need to know whether we can have a final audit of what has happened; not of the transactions but the final audit. I was mayor and towards the end of a session, it was the most dangerous time because a lot of assets disappeared and a lot of things happened. As we repeal the Act, we must ensure that there is, what we might call in accounting terms, a finalisation or termination audit. ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Another thing we need to know is if these people have been ghost workers for the last nearly 40 years. We need to understand who has been sitting on the board when there have been no transactions for nearly 40 years. This is the form of waste we want to clear. We are repealing the Act and that is very good but we must also look to see whether we have doing the right thing or not. Apparently, there is some money still in that account. Who utilises the money? Who allocates it? Is it budgeted for every year and ... view