Yusuf Hassan Abdi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I want to support the Petition and Petitioner. It is important to contribute to the construction of our roads, being an important component of any development process particularly, for major urban centres and some rural areas. view
• 22 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: One concern I have about roads, is the lack of maintenance. It seems we now have a culture of not bothering about maintenance at all. This culture is leaving a lot of damaged roads unattended until they completely collapse before any investment is done, which is normally higher. We should start thinking about maintenance. I do not know whether this would require an amendment to the various road acts we have in the country. It is important we invest more on our roads. view
• 22 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: The second point is about petitions. This is my fourth term in Parliament. Normally, petitions are not followed up and executed well in terms of the final decisions and many disappear in between. We should look into this and the House should ensure those petitions are implemented and executed. view
• 14 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this particular debate. I represent a constituency in Nairobi with a substantial number of low-income earners. Many of them live below the poverty line. I am not talking about a constituency or a neighbourhood in a remote area of our country. It is only about one kilometre from this august House and also from the centre of power. It is important to put into context the fact that many of the children in Kamukunji have dreams like any other child in the country. They have a dream of ... view
• 14 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you cannot be a free and independent country if you cannot put infrastructure in place, pay for health and education, and lift the economy of your country. Therefore, we need to fund our Budget and stop being beggars in the world. We should stop carrying a begging bowl and asking for help. We need to fund our own development. The Kenyan citizen is an agent of his own development. Therefore, I support this Finance Bill. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this particular Bill. I oppose it on the grounds that successive governments in Kenya have failed to provide health services to Kenyans. As a result, our health services are not adequate, affordable and of the quality that is required to deal with the health challenges that we have in our country. Kenyans struggle daily with poor medical services and facilities, and exorbitant medical charges and costs. That is the problem that is sending thousands of Kenyans to their early deaths. That is the crisis that we have. ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: personnel and practitioners nationally. That is an issue that this House can address by providing more funding. By passing this amendment, we are going to create a new layer of bureaucracy and corruption, which will create a cumbersome process that will slow down and cripple the normal work of medical practitioners. That can lead to delays and bottlenecks which can make life even more difficult for a patient and their family. The bureaucracy that we are trying to put in place through this amendment will put lives at risk and lead to unnecessary deaths of many patients. Therefore, we should ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to ask a follow-up question to the Cabinet Secretary for Education. My question relates to the schools in Nairobi which are performing very poorly in exams, both primary and secondary schools. The state in some of these schools despite the fact that we have invested very heavily in infrastructure through the NG-CDF funds… We have teachers who have overstayed and gone native while some do private activities rather than focusing on the schools. Some of these schools are run by cartels that do illegal businesses as you have heard from the Member for ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I second this important and timely Motion which has been presented by Hon. Geoffrey Ruku, Member for Mbeere North. I congratulate him for taking this important task. The issue of the JSS has not been brought to the attention of this House in the way it should have been. I thank him for that. In all the 290 constituencies of our nation, I am sure we are all grappling with the major challenges brought about by the rapid introduction of the JSS system. This is a top-down policy which involves elites who are our top ... view