Shakila Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 321 to 330 of 369.

• 5 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister tell us when they intend to issue the block title deeds to the community? view
• 5 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister tell us what the Government is doing to make sure that those who were evicted from their ancestral land get back to their land? view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I want to support the Motion. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in supporting the Motion, I want to say that our country is very rich. Our country is blessed. Our country has the potential for food production. As we are going home, our country is faced with a lot of challenges, starting from food, water, pasture, teachers problems, corruption and failure to resettle Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), just to mention a few. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a disturbed woman as I contribute to this Motion. This is because of the development agenda that we have. Our development agenda are misplaced. It is sad and shameful for a country like ours, with all those riches I talked about, to accept food donation from Egypt. It is wrong! view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is wrong because the water Egypt is using is from our country. It is sad that the water Egypt is using is from our country. If we compare the land productivity in Egypt and Kenya; only 3 per cent of land in Egypt has potential for production while in Kenya it is 40 per cent. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the rate at which we are asking for food aid and donation, very soon, I fear that we will accept food donation from Somalia and Southern Sudan. I am sad and I am also not joking. If we are not looking at our development agenda seriously and strategise well, we are going to end up asking for food donation from Somalia and Southern Sudan. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the teachers problem is real. It is a problem that we need to address. If we politicise teachers problems, we are going to have a lot challenges in development. Teachers lay the foundation for all our human resources. When we lay the foundation and get the best, that is when we can address our critical development agenda. If we look at the politics that was surrounding teachers' issues recently--- The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) was registered way back in 1960s. For a long time, it has been negotiating with the Government. You saw ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: You saw recently when they were demonstrating and how they were beaten. There is hue and cry by teachers. We must solve teachers' problems. I am pleading with the Government and Ministry concerned to critically look at teachers' issues. Let them not politicise these issues. It is critical because we need them and they are the ones who handle all the human resource development of our country. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude by asking that we resettle the IDPs. That was Agenda Four. If we do not look after the IDPs, we are sitting on a time bomb. That is where view