Andrew Adipo Okuome

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The motor vehicle drivers and riders of motorcycles should be occasionally trained even if they were previously trained and hold licenses. This will renew their knowledge of traffic rules. If we do this, we will avoid deaths. I know there is an issue about insurance for bodabodas . Sometimes, looking at these issues, you begin to wonder the number of people who are limping or have been maimed as a result of road accidents and yet nobody pays them. We need to have a good insurance which will compensate those who get involved in accidents that impair them physically. view
• 19 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I support the Motion. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me begin by supporting Hon. Junet Mohamed for tomorrow’s date with Muslims. It is a very important date. It happens in my… view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying that in my own constituency I have a number of Muslims and I will be with them tomorrow as I was with them today. I have told them as much. Now that Hon. Junet has brought up the issue at the national level, I totally support what he was saying. Turning to the Bill we are discussing I think the issue is very important. It is time that we streamlined the counties in terms of legal provisions for matters of law. I support the creation of the Office of the County ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: As far as the tenure of the office is concerned, I support six years as proposed with an experience of five years to be the qualifying period for the position. These two terms are adequate for the type of person required to advise the county in matters law. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill and urge my colleagues to support the same. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you very much for giving me time. view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. We should feel guilty that we are talking about village elders a little too late. They have been exploited for a long time. Now that their case has come to this House, we should make sure that they are paid and paid well enough at least for their jobs. view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: If you go to land issues, the Government depends on village elders for advice and their advice normally is very important for whoever is charging the case. On educational matters like my colleagues have said, we use them quite a lot. The Government uses them and we cannot ignore their performance. As we speak, the Government has a food policy. This is one of the Big Four Agenda of the Government. The people who can get villagers to go to their shambas and till their land for food production are the village elders. They are very useful in this situation. view