Farah Maalim

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) My position to the Chairman is that we should lift the veil on this matter and get to the bottom of it. If we do not do it, any Government in place will do the same things to different sections of the country. This problem...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this matter. When you and I came to this House in late 1992 and as early as 1993, I brought up this matter on the Floor of the House....

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. Out of the 18 constituencies in the former North Eastern Province in the part of the northern region, only four constituencies have an inch of tarmac road. Fourteen constituencies do not have an inch of tarmac road. We have had...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, we have a problem in this country. We complain about money being wasted through corruption at the centre. The little that we take to the periphery is also being misused in a manner that you cannot imagine. I remember when the fellow...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I stand to support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. We have critical infrastructure in this country. One of the biggest problems happening now is the vandalism of some of those critical infrastructures like transformers. It would not cost much 6th June...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) One minute. Thank you. You cannot have that, because these are men. I am a man. Man is mankind. I am a man or a woman. That is what the African Americans were fighting for during emancipation in the south. They said, “I am a...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is precisely in line with that. Let us read history. You think that you can enjoy life, you can have tarmacked roads everywhere, you can have water everywhere and the others are going to live like they are the Red Indians...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) I have three. Thank you.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to add my voice to what the Member for Ijara has said. One of the biggest landmarks and earth-shaking commitments we got from this Government and our President, William Ruto, was that there was not going to be any more...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Point of order.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Mover, what is your take on the Committee’s Report?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Leader of the Majority Party.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim)What happened to Hon.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Hon. Baya Owen.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Hon. Major Dekow. (Hon. Owen Baya spoke off record) I have to propose the Question. Sorry. You were seconding. I have to propose the Question. (Question proposed) Hon. Dekow Major.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Hon. Elachi.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) I call upon the Temporary Chairman to report to the House the Committee’s resolution on the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2024) .

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) I now call upon the Mover.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes. Hon. Speaker, is it not time you directed that we should have a law that defines what public participation is so that we all know?

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Yes. That is something very exquisite and we are happy. But Hon. Speaker, we do not have a public participation Act in this country. We do not have a law.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Daabab, WDM) For your information, it is only in the last election that a substantive number of the former Members of Parliament came in. The tradition has been that only a maximum of 15 per cent of incumbents get re-elected. As you put it, when we come...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, one of the cardinal doctrines of the kind of the Westminster Parliament we have for democracy is the will of the Majority Party and the right for the Minority Party to be heard. We say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely....

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) On a Point of Order, Hon. Deputy Speaker.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) What is your point of order?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) The House does not have quorum. Indeed, you are right. We cannot transact business without quorum. Serjeant-at-Arms, please, ring the Quorum Bell. (The Quorum Bell was rung) (Hon. Samuel Atandi walked out of the chamber) 7th December 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 13 The Temporary...

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Hon. Kemei.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) You are neighbours?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) I can see there is very limited interest in this. Let us have the County Woman Representative for Nandi, Cynthia Muge. Do you wish to weigh in on this? Okay, you have an opportunity.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) I have Members who want to contribute. Proceed.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) A Statement on Tragic Drowning of Two Residents of Sigowet/Soin.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) What is your point of order?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) The House does not have quorum. Indeed, you are right. We cannot transact business without quorum. Serjeant-at-Arms, please, ring the Quorum Bell. (The Quorum Bell was rung) (Hon. Samuel Atandi walked out of the chamber) 7th December 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 13 The Temporary...

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Hon. Kemei.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) You are neighbours?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) I can see there is very limited interest in this. Let us have the County Woman Representative for Nandi, Cynthia Muge. Do you wish to weigh in on this? Okay, you have an opportunity.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) I have Members who want to contribute. Proceed.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) A Statement on Tragic Drowning of Two Residents of Sigowet/Soin.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim)

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Before I move to the next order, I want to recognise the presence in the Public Gallery of pupils from Soin Primary School in Moiben. The boys and girls who are here have come to see how the legislative leadership of this country is...

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Next Order. QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS STATEMENTS The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) There are two responses to statements today.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Order! The Standing Orders do not allow. 7th December 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 8 The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim)Asante, nitang’ang’ana. Jana Cabinet Secretary alikuja... Unajua Mhe. Bady akiwa kwa kamati, sisi humwambia azungumze kwa lugha ya Kiswahili kwa sababu Kiswahili chake ni kizuri...

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Kiongozi wa Chama cha walio Wengi, hoja yako ya nidhamu ni nini?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Mhe. Peter Kaluma, Kiongozi wa walio Wengi alikuwa amesimama kwa hoja ya nidhamu. Kwa hivyo, huwezi kusimama kwa hoja ya nidhamu.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Endelea Mhe. What is your point of order?

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Order. The rules are very clear that if you start in Kiswahili you will have to speak Kiswahili throughout. If you start in English, you end in the same language.

The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) Endelea.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) I want to talk about the sale and give a bit of a background to understand the philosophy and the psychology behind some of those things and the need for us to protect the interests of our country.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The issue of privatisation of public properties and companies is a matter that came into the global purview.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) This whole idea is to rob public property in developing third world countries. The idea of parastatals at the time of Independence was because we did not sufficiently empower indigenous Africans who had the cash and could buy and maintain big organisations or entities like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) It has to be sold to an indigenous Kenyan and nobody else for that matter. Otherwise, we risk taking this country back to where we were in

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The issue of privatisation of public properties and companies is a matter that came into the global purview.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) I want to talk about the sale and give a bit of a background to understand the philosophy and the psychology behind some of those things and the need for us to protect the interests of our country.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) This whole idea is to rob public property in developing third world countries. The idea of parastatals at the time of Independence was because we did not sufficiently empower indigenous Africans who had the cash and could buy and maintain big organisations or entities like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) It has to be sold to an indigenous Kenyan and nobody else for that matter. Otherwise, we risk taking this country back to where we were in

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) I want to talk about the sale and give a bit of a background to understand the philosophy and the psychology behind some of those things and the need for us to protect the interests of our country.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The issue of privatisation of public properties and companies is a matter that came into the global purview.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) This whole idea is to rob public property in developing third world countries. The idea of parastatals at the time of Independence was because we did not sufficiently empower indigenous Africans who had the cash and could buy and maintain big organisations or entities like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) It has to be sold to an indigenous Kenyan and nobody else for that matter. Otherwise, we risk taking this country back to where we were in

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The issue of privatisation of public properties and companies is a matter that came into the global purview.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) I want to talk about the sale and give a bit of a background to understand the philosophy and the psychology behind some of those things and the need for us to protect the interests of our country.

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) This whole idea is to rob public property in developing third world countries. The idea of parastatals at the time of Independence was because we did not sufficiently empower indigenous Africans who had the cash and could buy and maintain big organisations or entities like...

Hon. Farah Maalim (Dadaab, WDM) It has to be sold to an indigenous Kenyan and nobody else for that matter. Otherwise, we risk taking this country back to where we were in