Abdul Rahim Dawood

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to support the Prevention of Torture Bill. Previously in this country, we used to have a problem. People used to be taken to the torture chambers. There used to be a dreaded police unit known as “Special Branch”. Thankfully,...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to support this ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. My reason for supporting the Agreement is that we will be in agreement with our international obligations. When we support the ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, we will be...

Hon. Dawood Hon. Speaker, the Vice-Chairman is talking about the petition that I withdrew in 2015. I am talking about a petition I presented to the House on 1st March 2016 regarding two police officers who went on retirement but have never received their benefits. The Committee says that they...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to congratulate the Mover of the Petition. It is well-known that private individuals grab public property, but sometimes it is State actors like the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) who grab property from my people in Kithoka. I Hon. Dawoodwonder where to take...

Hon. Dawood Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House:- The Reports of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade on its consideration of the following Bills:-

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You can see the Chairman of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) Committee gesturing. I support this Bill but I will be very brief. We need to control betting and licensing in this country because a lot of our people lose...

Hon. Dawood On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh) : Hon. Shabir, I am sorry to interrupt you again. There is a point of order from Hon. Dawood. Hon. Dawood, what is out of order? Hon. Dawood Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker,...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill. My reason for supporting it is exactly the opposite of Hon. Shakeel’s reason. If we pass this Bill today, it will be the most important thing we will have done for the NG-CDF. If we divide Kshs25 billion...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill by Hon. Mule. I believe it is timely. We need a framework from where we can control the system in which we have all the medical fields represented. The Biomedical Engineers Bill will go a long way in establishing...

Hon. Dawood Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, is the Member in order to get out of the Bill which we are talking about? I think he should stick to relevance. Hon. DawoodThe Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Member, I have not heard any irrelevance from the speaker.Go ahead and...

Hon. Dawood Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support the adoption of Sessional Paper No.10 of 2014. In supporting it, I agree with what the Chairperson has said regarding the County Executive Committees (CECs) . They are not very well informed. We introduced devolution, but probably they did not...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I spoke to the Chairman and there is a problem with the CDF when we do reallocations. Mine is six months late and I am told the Committee has not sat. I even spoke to the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) earlier...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I agree with the proposed deletion of this provision. I believe the Powers and Privileges Committee can deal with those issues effectively. If the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has to move in, he can even charge a Member who has done...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. First of all, the Leader of the Majority Party and Hon. Okoth have stigmatised the whole police force by saying that they are just good for shooting people. They should withdraw that statement because we cannot stigmatise the whole police force. That...

Hon. Dawood Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to oppose this Bill in the sense that the August date, which is proposed in the Constitution, is the right date. A lot of arguments have been advanced about the December date, when we are talking about the exams. The...