Ahmed Shakeel Ahmed Shabbir

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. We have had a very close relationship with the People's Republic of China and I am honoured to be the Chairperson of the Kenya-China Parliamentary Friendship Group. We have had a number of engagements, not only in China but also here. We have had online...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me inform the House that I was on the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission since 1998, and we worked very closely and spent a lot of time discussing the Equalisation Fund. It is a special constitutional fund created under Article 204 of the Constitution...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Motion. This matter has been haunting us for many years. Many of my constituents come to me because they need to purchase uniforms and shoes for about Ksh3,000 a pair, and the parents do not have this money. We ask them why...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Kenya's forest cover has depreciated by about 90 per cent since pre-independence times. We have the Forest Service (KFS) and the Chief Forest Officer. We have a very good Forest Service that has been working together with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) . I am an honorary...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I support the Government's emergency action to reduce VAT from 16 per cent to 8 per cent. This should be accompanied by other measures to ensure the intended effect reaches consumers. We have the Petroleum Development Levy Fund (PDLF) , and it should work in...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Change always has a reaction. It is not the branding issue that is the problem. The issue is identifying animals. I come from Kisumu East, and a number of our animals are stolen, especially between Nandi and ourselves, and they are taken very far, and...

Thank you for allowing us to debate the Bill. The Quality Healthcare and Patient Safety Bill brought to the House proposes a new body called the Quality Health Care and Patient Safety Authority. The role of the Authority is to license hospitals, accredit health facilities, inspect and audit health facilities,...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I note the Report. The Committee has done well and we need to look at their recommendations. The Public Debt Office, in the last three terms of my four terms, was never really a Public Debt Office within the system. It was somewhere in the...

I second the Motion. I have comments. When I sit down, please, allow me to make my comments later. I was asking for your approval. It is true I have been a Member of Parliament for a fourth term now. First, I thank my brother for a very passionate presentation...

Yes. I withdraw the earlier comment. However, I will not withdraw the fact that they are a privileged few. I am a Member of the IPU, have been, others have been, and you might be as well. There seems to be certain preference activities. I do not want to compare...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I just wanted to get the matter off my chest. I have great faith in those who went to the IPU conference. I also have great faith in the tabled Reports, especially the one from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, because it includes some issues that Kenyan parliamentarians have pushed...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Picking from what Hon. Wamuchomba said, I propose that the Committee of Powers and Privileges, which is under your leadership, ban the former Deputy President from the precincts of Parliament until such a time as he will have made appropriate apologies. As I understand, former Members...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I stand to support this very important Motion. I beg the House to approve the award of the charter. We have lost our way in the education sector. We established many universities that awarded degrees in theology and other fields, but we...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As much as I wish to rise and support the Division of Revenue Bill, which is within our mandate, I was a member of the Constitution of Kenya Review Constitution (CKRC) , and we thoroughly discussed the issue of devolution. Of course, functions and revenue must...