Sophia Abdi Noor

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As a House, we must support the Motion by Hon. Mishi in terms of implementation and putting proper facilities in place for children with special needs. view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Government is not serious with special needs programmes. They have been left to the NGOs. Any proper facilities you see anywhere in this country, they have been set up by NGOs. We want our Government to be very serious and committed to support children with special needs, particularly in terms of providing them with facilities and the kind of resources they put into special needs education programmes. view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: When we do not have a budget line for special needs education programmes, how will such children compete equally with children in normal schools? Resourcing and financing special needs education programmes is a responsibility of the Government, and is a right. view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am seeking a Statement regarding the mishandling of the Holy Quran by a teacher. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 43, I rise to make a Statement regarding an incident that took place at Junior Academy in Masalani, a private school in Ijara Constituency, Garissa County. On Tuesday, 24th July 2018 at 11.00 a.m., a primary school teacher by the name Christopher Joseph Mwaniki, snatched the Holy Quran from a student, tossed it to the ground and stepped on it in the presence of the students, teachers and a parent. The said teacher has lived among the community ... view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to talk about this important matter that is before the House. We went around this country for several days. We were forced to discuss and deliberate issues about logging. You have seen a lot of changes in our environment. We have had a lot of cycles of drought, heavy rains and floods. All these have been caused by the changes that we are experiencing in our forests. The committee went to the Mau Forest, Mt. Kenya Forest and held several meetings with various communities, conservationists and experts so that ... view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: the pride of this country, the chairman runs a hotel. In terms of capacity again, we have very few rangers protecting our forests. We have one ranger who is supposed to protect 1 million hectares of forest land. Internationally, it should not be like that. The issue of abuse of licences by saw millers was a very obvious thing when we went to the field. Saw millers are given licences to harvest trees in particular areas, but when you go to the site, you will be met with great destruction of forest land. You will not believe it. They have ... view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: There is a serious capacity issue in terms of resource allocation to cover all the forests. The KFS has one helicopter, which they cannot use in all the forests. Seriously speaking, we have an issue with the KFS. As a committee, we are saying that we should look at all 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
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: managerial, governance and resource allocation issues. There is a lot of resources that go to waste at the KFS. They get a lot of resources but misuse them. view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this time. As I had indicated earlier on, there was an incident that took place in Masalani in Tawakal Junior Academy School. It is a private primary school in Masalani in Ijara Constituency in Garissa County and has employed many local and non-local teachers. view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Mr. Christopher Juma is one of the employees of Tawakal Junior Academy School. He has been in Masalani from 2015 and was hosted by the community, interacted with the community and there was a lot of respect for him being a teacher to their children. He lived with the community. view