Sophia Abdi Noor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Seriously and honestly, as a budget-making House we need to see how we can provide resources for our missions abroad. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Report. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. From the outset, I want to add my voice to this Motion. I particularly want to congratulate the Mover, Hon. Ruweida, Woman Representative for Lamu County. This is a very important Report. I come from a border point that has not been recognised. My border point is a long stretch along the Kenya-Somalia border. If you go to Garissa, Wajir and Mandera counties there is a very long border point that is closed for now. It is not manned or controlled. There is illegal trading at the border point. ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with the Committee when they talk about the security on border points. We should have a joint committee that will understand and engage in activities that will coordinate security. We should also have a structure that will engage properly with the communities that live along the borders. We should also have proper understanding between the communities that live on both sides. The Committee recommended that we should have coordination and partnership among the communities that live on the border. I will give you an example. When our good Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) were taken ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: When we coordinate and partner with the committees from both countries, it will help to have proper understanding and communities will provide security on both sides. We need to protect ourselves on both sides. We need to see how we can continue building good relationship on both sides. It is very important when we say that we need a structured way of engaging with our partner states. When you have partner states that do not have a uniform understanding and structure of engagement, then there will be a problem. One partner state will be exhausted of being the good one ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: way of engagement with our friends. They are our friends and neighbours. We must talk to them, so that they understand the kind of relationship we want as neighbours. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The other thing that I have a problem with in the Report is when a facility is opened the first people it is supposed to accommodate are the locals. In the Big Four Agenda, job creation is one of the agenda that His Excellency the President of this nation looks forward to do. When we have a border point in Migori County and members of staff who are manning it are brought from Nairobi, that is not job creation because it is not accommodating the locals who are supposed to be the first beneficiaries of the facility. I am happy ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Finally, I want to talk about my border point where I have a security problem because the place is closed. We do not have any security officers who man the border of my constituency. Boni Forest is in my constituency. You have heard about Boni enclave where the KDF and many people were taken to protect and remove the Al Shabaab from Boni forest. If all that line of the border we do not have activities that are going on… view
• 22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice in support of this Motion. It is a Motion that is familiar to me. I have worked in this area for many years. I am a founder and CEO of an NGO called Womankind Kenya, which did a lot in the areas of reproductive health. I have been running an integrated programme. I have met physically with women and girls who suffer vesico-vaginal fistula. I have counseled, sat and ate with women who are despised by their communities, who do not feel like part of the community because ... view
• 22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: that programme. They went out of their way to conduct health education to tell people the causes of fistula. I have been doing many programmes on female genital mutilation and the effects of early child marriages, which are some of the factors that contribute to fistula. As a nation, when we have 6 million of our women and girls affected by fistula in one way or another, we cannot take it for granted. It is a big population. It is a group we cannot just ignore. The Constitution is very clear on the provision of healthcare. It is compulsory free ... view