Sophia Abdi Noor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I second our Report. view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: It was closed, but the way they reopened is what we were questioning. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion. At the outset, I want to support it and congratulate the Members of the Committee for doing their job well. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I was the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare in the 10th Parliament. I visited some of the embassies around the world. They had given us a memorandum as a Committee, which talked about their welfare. Honestly speaking, there is no difference between that time and what I have read from the Report of the Committee. It shows that those embassies are still suffering 10 or 7 years later. An ambassador of a country is a person who promotes the interest of a nation. He is supposed to be well facilitated. He goes around the nation ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: This Report shows us that most embassies do not have vehicles. If you go to their offices, the kind of equipment that is there is outdated. The recommendation of the Committee is to upgrade and replace the furniture in those offices. The embassy is the image of this country. When you do not have furniture in the embassies, it becomes a problem. You have heard that Uganda and Nigeria own properties. The Committee told us that when they went to New York, the kind of facility that Uganda and Nigeria have, compared to what we, as a country, have it ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Members of Parliament talked about Saudi Arabia. I also had that impression. Sometime this year, we accompanied our Speaker to Saudi Arabia. We met Kenyans living in Saudi Arabia. They invited us for a talk. We had a whole evening together, where we engaged with Kenyans who live there. I urge the Committee to visit Saudi Arabia because I do not have the mandate to give you the kind of information that we got from them that evening, and tell you the kind of support they get from there. I do not want to mention it. I am requesting the ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The diplomats who live in Kenya from different countries support their countries’ citizens a lot through social welfare and scholarship programmes. They also go out of their way to support programmes in this country. However, our Kenyan diplomats in different countries cannot support their own. If a Kenyan has a problem, for example, in London, the High Commissioner there cannot facilitate him. We need to think through the policies that we have the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: kind of resources that we give to our embassies, and what we have as Kenyans. Kenya is a blessed country. It is only the Members of this House who can change the impression that people have about us. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Finally, I want to conclude by saying that the Committee, in its Report, indicates that our tea and coffee, which are the best in the world, do not get the required marketing. We need a strategy that can sell our products abroad. We need to get the best persons to go out there and sell our products. Kenyan tea and coffee are brand products. Whenever I travel abroad, I carry some Kenyan coffee and tea for my friends out there at their request. When some officers know that we are visiting their foreign missions, they ask us to carry some ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Committee needs to think how best the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade can promote our products; measures they can put in place to specifically address that. Tourism is not enough and it is not doing well. We want to have a unit in the Ministry that can sell our products properly and can represent our country in a better way than what we see today. view