Sophia Abdi Noor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: parties nominate 12 Members to this House. This is to treat the problem that we have with minority groups, PWDs, women and youth so that we have adequate representation of these groups. This legislation is not saying that we will reserve Dagoretti South Constituency for either a woman or a PWD. So, when you have reservations on the legislation because you fear your constituency will be reserved for either a woman or a PWD, then you have not gone through this legislation properly. When the Committee is amending the Persons with Disabilities Act of 2003, it is talking about promotion ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: platform to use resources that are limited and capped. Every political party or individual can use resources with certain limits, so that you have equal platform to compete. On election offences, the Committee has done a good job and I want to thank them very much for bringing this amendment, which is strong. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to second this Motion. As the Joint Committee, we were very sensitive and alive to the fact that Kenya meets the United Nations forest cover threshold. So, being alive to the fact we are doing a thorough campaign as a Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources with our sister Departmental Committee of Lands, we went into thorough discussions and went through various stages before we reached the decisions that we are asking this House to adopt and approve. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in considering the Petition, the Joint Committees held various meetings. We had a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary (CS), Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and we deliberated on the issue in depth with the CS and experts from the Ministry. We also had a meeting with the Chief Administrative Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. We talked and were very open and, in particular, in discussing the forest cover of this country. As a country, we need to meet the demands and the standards of forest cover. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: So, we engaged and interacted with the Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS). The Joint Committees also undertook a field trip to Bungoma County. We held a two-day meeting with several stakeholders, including the Ogiek and Dhorobo community council of elders. These are the hunters and gatherers who live in that forest. We wanted to understand what they thought about the proposals we were fronting as a Joint Committee. We also meet other groups and received submission from various stakeholders following an advertisement we placed in the daily newspapers on 26th July 2018 in line with Article 118 of the Constitution. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The purpose of this Report is to respond to a prayer made by the Executive. The Joint Committee having considered all the views collected observed that the approval of a legal notice to effect the variation of the boundaries of Mt. Elgon Forest Reserve was passed as a Resolution of Parliament upon recommendation by the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) Board pursuant to Section 34 of the Forest Conservation and Management Act 2018. We discussed that the recommendations by the KFS Board should be guided by the following when considering the variation of the boundaries of Mt. Elgon Forest Reserve. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: One, the intent of variation must be approved by the Forest Conservation Committee (FCC) of that area. Every area with a forest has a FCC except my area where we have Boni Forest. But everywhere else, there is a FCC that is consulted to give their approval. Another important thing which is supposed to be looked into before approval is if rare species are found in some particular forests so that they are not endangered. If this forest is curved to resettle people yet we have endangered species, this will not be approved. We looked into this to avoid violating ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Also, the Committee was expected to carry out an independent environmental impact assessment test to ascertain whether the points we are raising are varied. So, it is clear in our minds that what we are doing is right and we are bringing to the House a very crucial and important decision which has gone through various stages. Another important aspect was public participation. As I stated earlier, we met several interest groups in Mt. Elgon Forest like the Ogiek and Dhorobo council of elders because they are important stakeholders. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Further, the Joint Committee noted that all the submissions supported degazettement and it is only the Chepkitale area which disagreed. Their fear was that people would be resettled in their area and not that they were refusing on the major substance and principle of degazettement of the forest. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The Joint Committee further noted that the Government facilitated the whole process of degazettement. They did what was required by the law. There was proper public participation and approval by the KFS that conducted their independent environmental impact assessment test. We further observed that the Petition disclosed adequate grounds for variation of the boundary of Mt. Elgon Forest Reserve by 4,607 hectares. Given the security challenges associated with the area, we felt it was adequate enough to give the Government what it required from us. view