Farah Maalim

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes, Hon. Speaker. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Hon. Otiende Amollo is one of the most brilliant legal minds we have in this country. As far as the proceedings and debates of the Committee are concerned, he...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes, Hon. Speaker. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Hon. Otiende Amollo is one of the most brilliant legal minds we have in this country. As far as the proceedings and debates of the Committee are concerned, he...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Anyway, that is where the problem is. How do we treat corruption? How do we treat people who are not patriotic yet those people are not ordinary? These people are the trustees of the country. Every shortage in this country is an opportunity for some...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Give me two minutes, please. I do not know how my minutes were used.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on this debate. I thank the Committee for the unique exercise they have done. For a long time, Parliament never knew how our debt was incurred, who took it, for what...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes, syndicated loans are usually borrowed from commercial banks. When you go and ask for a euro bond, for example, they force you to pay the loans that you took from banks in their own region. When you borrow from commercial banks for projects like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Anyway, that is where the problem is. How do we treat corruption? How do we treat people who are not patriotic yet those people are not ordinary? These people are the trustees of the country. Every shortage in this country is an opportunity for some...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Give me two minutes, please. I do not know how my minutes were used.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on this debate. I thank the Committee for the unique exercise they have done. For a long time, Parliament never knew how our debt was incurred, who took it, for what...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes, syndicated loans are usually borrowed from commercial banks. When you go and ask for a euro bond, for example, they force you to pay the loans that you took from banks in their own region. When you borrow from commercial banks for projects like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Anyway, that is where the problem is. How do we treat corruption? How do we treat people who are not patriotic yet those people are not ordinary? These people are the trustees of the country. Every shortage in this country is an opportunity for some...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Give me two minutes, please. I do not know how my minutes were used.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on this debate. I thank the Committee for the unique exercise they have done. For a long time, Parliament never knew how our debt was incurred, who took it, for what...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes, syndicated loans are usually borrowed from commercial banks. When you go and ask for a euro bond, for example, they force you to pay the loans that you took from banks in their own region. When you borrow from commercial banks for projects like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, not one minute please. I seek your indulgence. I support this Bill. I just want to mention some very important issues. The important issues are that, yes, this is a very good Bill and we want to support it. But at the...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Pukose, I do not know what information you have that I do not have. I am saying that 80 per cent of women in this country deliver through traditional birth attendants. If we do not care about our own mothers and sisters in rural...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, not one minute please. I seek your indulgence. I support this Bill. I just want to mention some very important issues. The important issues are that, yes, this is a very good Bill and we want to support it. But at the...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Pukose, I do not know what information you have that I do not have. I am saying that 80 per cent of women in this country deliver through traditional birth attendants. If we do not care about our own mothers and sisters in rural...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you. There is need for us to deal with the elephant in the room in terms of tackling the problem in this country. What will destroy this country in a big way is the fact that drug abuse permeates our society...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daadab, WDM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also weigh in my ideas on this. This country is going to be destroyed not by anything else, not because of politics, ethnic issues and these other kinds of divides, but by...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I join my two colleagues from Garissa County, Hon. Abdi Ali and Hon. Major (Rtd.) Dekow. In the last 4th October 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 5 Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM)10 years of the Jubilee Government, over 1,200 elderly women,...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, the rules are very clear. The Hon. Speaker said, “Candour and banter.” Candour is related to the word ‘candid.’ Bantering is good humour, jokes and exchange. (Hon. Samwel Chepkonga spoke off the record)

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) The rules are very clear. The rules say that you cannot impute improper motive on a Member of Parliament without moving a substantive Motion. It is very clear. If you had stood on a point of order immediately and sought redress, the Leader of the...