Yusuf Haji

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1421 to 1430 of 1714.

• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Chiefs of Defence of Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda met on 2nd December, 2011, to consider the draft strategy concept paper which took into account the decision of the IGAD Summit. Following the meeting of the Chiefs of Defence Staff, the AU Peace and Security Council met in Addis Ababa on 2nd December, 2011, and endorsed the outcome of the 19th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Governments, welcomed the joint security operations by the KDF and called upon Kenya to favourably consider the integration of its forces to AMISOM. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the AU has been consulting with the United Nations (UN) system and plans to engage the UN Security Council on the matter on or about 19th December in view of the fact that the Christmas holidays are approaching, hence the urgency of the matter. Arising from the given urgent information, I am requesting Parliament to approve the request by the Commission of the AU to integrate the KDF currently operating in Somalia to AMISOM. This request is made pursuant to Article 240 (8)(a)(i) and (ii) of the Constitution of Kenya, which requires parliamentary approval for any regional ... view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: I will ask Mheshimiwa Kalonzo to second the Motion. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: I wish to respond, first of all, to the questions that were raised by hon. Members, who were contributing. Sir, you will recall during your contribution, you raised the question of an exit plan. Hon. K. Kilonzo who also spoke before you raised the same issue. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the first place, Kenya has never had any appetite really to enter Somali territory. It is as a result of the unprovoked disturbances that the AlShabaab militants were creating that at the spur of the moment, Kenya decided to push AlShabaab away from our border. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and I went to Djibouti, Somalia, Burundi, Uganda and Ethiopia to sell the idea that we want to come out of Somalia and it will, therefore, require the African troop contributing countries to contribute soldiers who can go and replace Kenya. This is because if ... view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do agree with your sentiments that Kenya should not stay longer than it is necessary. Even tomorrow if we achieve the objective which has taken us there, Kenyan forces will come out of Somalia. You also talked about collateral damage. We agree and are very sensitive to that. During our operation we have made sure that nothing like that happens in Somalia. That is why the liberated areas are embracing our soldiers and receiving them with both hands. They are very happy to receive all the assistance that our soldiers are able to give in ... view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: As the Minister of State for Defence I want to make it very clear that in this operation we do not have any other Government assisting us. We shall not also allow the Prime Minister of Israel to come and fight with us in Somalia. We will not allow even an office messenger from Israel to come and embrace us in this war against the Al Shabaab . view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Imanyara talked about the contingent of AMISOM. Very rightly so, the contingent of AMISOM is 9,500 as at now. The requirement was that they should be 20,000, but now that the Al Shabaab have been expelled from Mogadishu – 98 per cent of Mogadishu is now in the hands of AMISOM – it has been found prudent that the second phase which was to liberate Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia should now start immediately. Therefore, there are 9,500 of Burundi and Ugandan troops in Mogadishu. These countries have also pledged to contribute a total ... view