Sunjeev Kour Birdi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, failure to issue applicants with citizenship has violated their rights in respect of equality and freedom from discrimination in failing to process their application for Kenyan citizenship. view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, there have been allegations of high level of corruption at Immigration Department, therefore, rendering the applicants helpless. view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, the issues in respect of which this Petition is made are not pending before any court of law or any constitutional or legal body. view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, efforts to resolve the matter have been futile. Therefore, your humble petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security: - (i) Recommends that the relevant Government agency undertakes investigations to establish why there is backlog at Immigration Department and recommend necessary measures to resolve the matter; (ii) ensures that the petitioners’ plight is addressed; and, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: (iii) makes any other order or direction that it deems fit in the circumstances of the Petition. And your petitioners will forever pray. Thank you. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my words to this very important Motion. It was brought to the Floor of this House by the able and respectable Member of Parliament, Hon. Yusuf Hassan. Let me start by quoting the words from a speech that was given at Kamukunji Grounds many years back when our country was feeling and tasting freedom. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: “Today, we are tasting freedom. This is the first time most of you are attending a political meeting of your own choice. This is the first time you are truly happy to remember that we struggled for Independence and won”. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: These are the words of the famous and respected Hon. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: All right. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thought she wanted to interrupt. Anyway, let us move on. There is nothing wrong with quoting famous words. The point I am trying to drive home is that these famous and important words were spoken at Kamukunji Grounds at a time when Kenya was tasting, but not testing freedom. In comparison, if you go to India, there is a museum in Parliament. In that museum, there is a special section where people can sit and listen to famous words which were spoken by Mr. Nehru before India The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: gained freedom. You hear words like “At the stroke of midnight hour when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom”. This is narrated in that museum. People listen and feel with nostalgia a percentage of what it felt like when people were struggling for freedom. People lived and breathed under the pressure of not knowing what tomorrow would be like. People from all walks of life go there. Kamukunji Grounds lack that. If we had that today, we would not be struggling to teach our history to our children. We are struggling because we spend our time ... view