Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 331 to 340 of 1945.

• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: As much as we say that electronic means should be there, we say “garbage in garbage out.” If there is electronic data, it must have a measure of control measurements and certain qualities. That is so that anomalies are checked if there is some electronic data which is keyed in and is not at par with the standards that have been set for that. There are so many women and men in Nyalenda, which is one of my wards. If you go and put very little or very much, the data should say “hold on. This is not acceptable because ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. There is an adage which says that there is no permanent solution for a temporary problem. Likewise, there is no temporary solution for a permanent problem. The IEBC is an institution which needs permanency. These hit-and-run adoptions, directions, motions and proposals are but temporary. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Nowhere in the world have we been humiliated more than by the IEBC. The Chairman of the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) once said that he had no idea who had won the elections. We are treated as a joke abroad. This same IEBC that we are trying to regulate and sort out has been involved in a lot of corruption in the chicken gate scandal and yet, we have forgotten why that happened. Those who bribed in Britain went to jail and came out after seven or five years. But ours are still sitting around and going from ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Our IEBC is not institutionalised. There is no real division of roles between the board and the secretariat. The Chairman wants to be the secretariat and those who are in the Secretariat want the position of the Chairman. The issue basically is that nobody knows what he is doing. As a result, systems are set up and taken over from other organisations. The Cambridge Analytica system was adopted. We have had other issues where the IEBC has gone ahead in short term to buy things which were then thrown away and were never used. As we are looking at the ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, help me. I cannot concentrate because my friends are a bit loud. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The IEBC needs to be sorted out because it requires permanency. The same IEBC we are talking about is going to conduct the coming census, a referendum and thereafter an election and yet, four commissioners resigned but are still being paid. They have shown that they lack integrity. If they resigned, let us be done with them. Integrity must be seen to exist at the IEBC. Like Caesar’s wife, commissioners of the IEBC must be beyond reproach. However, they are not. We find it a joke the way IEBC conducts elections in relation to other countries. Their electoral bodies are ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The Kriegler Report was very clear. If I had a say – but I do not – I would have IEBC Commissioners appointed from amongst people who are not residents of this country. Even if we have to bring people like Kriegler, let us have an IEBC that cannot be manipulated – one that cannot be threatened or told what to do. That is the only time wananchi will vote for whomever they feel is appropriate. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I oppose the short-term approach and plead with the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and other Committees to kindly relook at this Bill and come up with a long-term proposal for a long-term solution. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 30 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Firstly, I stand to confirm that I am in agreement with the Motion to appoint an auditor for the Auditor- General. The Auditor-General is the one who audits all other institutions of the Government yet we need the Auditor-General audited. The Office of the Auditor-General must be beyond reproach like Caesar’s wife. There should be nothing left unturned. We feel that the office must be audited. The fact of the issue is, the cleaner the audit report on the Auditor-General is the better because it gives him the authority, moral and otherwise, to be able to ... view