Ahmed Shakeel Ahmed Shabbir

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order 44 (2) (e) , I wish to make a Personal Statement with regard to the remarks I made at Kindu Secondary School. On Friday, 11th July 2025, during a prayer meeting event at Kindu Secondary School in Kisumu East Constituency, I made...

Hon. Chairlady, I resoundingly support the proposal. However, as it has been said by others, the Government tells us that recruitment will be in sub-counties. The Government tells us that recruitment will be fair and professionally-conducted and yet, we find those who walk in and disrupt the process. Although this...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When I was young, there were agricultural extension officers. As much as I understand the basis of this Bill, I do not understand why we need to reinvent the wheel. They were there. This Bill is just coming up with another Board with all their...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The proposed Section 2 is doing a very good thing because it has extended the regulatory scope of this very important Act. As we understand, mining operations have been the bane of illicit financial flows and have also greatly affected the economy of...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I support the amendment. This was causing a very big problem when we were dealing with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) . Initially, this was called the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative. I recall working in it in Panama over 12 years ago. This has now...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. This omnibus proposal overlooks the fact that the Estate Agents Act has been used many times for money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. It was heavily used in Mombasa to launder the proceeds of piracy, and you know what the effects were. As...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. As I said, we have been grey-listed by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the international community. They will view it as a lack of commitment if we set the penalties at “Not exceeding Ksh5 million”. The culprits have been laundering hundreds of billions...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party. It shows that his eyes are on the ball. As much as I dislike Trumps policies, there are certain things he said that make great sense, like on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) support. Money...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 1 of the Bill be further amended by inserting the words “immediately upon assent by the President.” immediately after the words “upon publication in the Gazette” I agree with most of the amendments. The Hon. Chairman has made clear that they...

No. The President of this country has made a positive direction on this particular thing, bearing in mind where we are on the grey list. I want to thank the President for doing this, because we have been writing to the Office of the President for some time. We are...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to present a tribute to the Aga Khan of the Ismailia Muslim Community, in respect of the passing away of Prince Kareem Aga Khan, whose visionary leadership and unwavering commitment have left an indelible mark on Kenya. He was a beacon of hope...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I can see the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning seems to be a little unsure about the amendment. The amendment states that it is in the public interest for the KRA not to recover an unpaid tax. It goes without...

Thank you, Hon Speaker for giving me the honour. As the Chair of the Kenya-China Parliamentary Friendship Group, I welcome our visitors. They are Members of their Parliament, the National Peoples’ Congress (NPC) . We have already had a successful third bilateral meeting with them. We shall be meeting them...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. One in every four Kenyans is probably suffering from a mental health issue. We, as Kenyans, have forgotten the issue of mental health. Actually, one in every two youths is struggling with a mental related problem. We have been sidestepping the issue of mental health....

Thank you. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai) : Thank you.

I want this point to be on the Hansard. There are cases in Kisumu where the miller refuses to take cane from a particular person because he supports Hon. Shakeel or Hon. Melly. There are certain millers who have tried to oppose Members of Parliament. Some said that they would...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I wanted to comment on clause 7 but that has been covered in Clause 11. I have attended a number of World Trade Organisation (WTO) meetings. In those meetings, there is a very strong approach from India and other cotton-growing countries. The one from Kenya...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table: Corruption (APNAC- Kenya) from the Chairperson, APNAC-Kenya.