Shakeel Shabbir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 791 to 800 of 1945.

• 28 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am very grateful to you for allowing me to speak. I will speak very briefly. It is a very good Bill. It is long overdue. Many a times we have gone to this climate change workshops where we spend a lot of very valuable time and money, but we really have no idea as to the way we should work. Whenever we come back, we have great ideas and have been part and parcel of the climate change movement yet we cannot come to enforce any of these climate change proposals and recommendations made. This ... view
• 28 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want congratulate the Minister. This is something that should have been done sometimes ago. As she rightly said, there are number of research institutions competing for limited resources when it comes to “R” and “D”. Many a times the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. I think basically this whole Bill is to rationalize and harmonize this and not centralize it. I hope the Bill will concentrate on rationalizing, harmonizing and synergizing, so that we can get the best from our brains, and have them work in concrete manner towards ... view
• 21 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Assistant Minister is not very clear on the circumstances of the withdrawal of the case. I would like to ask him to be clear because it appears to me as if he is misleading the House. He says nobody complained from the Embassy, but the officer who was investigating this case withdrew it. Could he confirm that was the position? view
• 21 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Bearing in mind that this matter is being dealt with even by the Ministry of Finance in respect of the famous Charterhouse Bank, will I be in order to ask that this Question, especially with respect to why Peter Odhiambo was recruited by CBK, be referred to the Ministry of Finance for them to give us a conclusive answer as to why he was actually recruited? view
• 21 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Roads:- (a) whether he is aware that the road from Kisumu to Muhoroni via Miwani and Chemelil (C34) is in a bad state; (b) how much money the Ministry has spent on repairing the road using gravel and what the cost of repairing the same road would have been using bitumen over the same period; and, (c) when the road will be retarmacked. view
• 21 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the answer given is not detailed in the way I requested. However, the Assistant Minister has said that he has awarded a contract for design. Is he aware that this is one of the key roads that had been already promised to open the corridor serving the sugar belt and the by-pass to Kisumu? It was meant to be one of the priority projects! He does not seem to tell us whether this is a priority project, or is just one of those projects which they are funding. view
• 21 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, I am okay. But at the same time, if you do not mind, may I ask the Assistant Minister to come with a report in respect of why there are only five major roads to Kisumu City and they are all in bad state of affairs. Could he bring a status report on all of the five roads? There is the one from Kericho, Muhoroni, Kisii and the one to Kakamega. I think this is under the Kenya Highways Authority--- view
• 21 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Minister is not answering the question. The Minister and a clique of people who have been involved in the cutting down of Mt. Kenya Forest are the ones who forced this person to resign. I know this personally because the Director himself has named the officer. view
• 20 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the Assistant Minister in order to inform the House that the body will be brought back soon when he is aware that there is an overriding law in the Islamic Republic of Saudi Arabia where bodies not claimed within three months are buried in accordance with the law of Saudi Arabia? Can the Assistant confirm to us that he is aware that the bodies--- view
• 20 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to intercede. The Member for Wajir West is presently occupied on the issue of Garissa and the fall out. He is trying to organize something. He may be in the precincts of Parliament, but I think he may not have made it to here. I plead with you to allow this Question to be deferred. view