Andrew Adipo Okuome

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: We expose them to a lot of dangers. Look at the illicit brews. Those who brew these drinks do not take it lightly if they are arrested. They normally think it is the village elders who inform the authorities to arrest them. When they are arrested, they take offence and sometimes they become dangerous to the village elders. Chiefs and assistant chiefs also use them. The Government uses them. They are actually Government employees but nobody recognises them for their contribution to the Government. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. 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
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Looking at the Motion, almost 500,000 people suffer from diabetes which is 2 per cent of adults. That is an extremely high figure. Indeed, if we do not take action immediately, we may find Kenya becoming a sick society, which will be very unfortunate indeed. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I want to look at the Motion in two parts: the preventive and the treatment side. The preventive includes a number of things my colleagues have spoken about especially eating habits or food. One encouraging point is that food is covered in the Big Four Agenda of the Government. I therefore urge the Government to take care of the first step by ensuring that the crops we grow cater for the Motion we have. We should not grow maize alone. We should include, in our farming, maize, potatoes, carrots, pawpaws and all kinds of crops. If we do that, we ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I also see that the ratio of our doctors to the number of people is very low; the number of Kenyans per doctor is too high. For preventive purposes, it is difficult for us to use doctors. I would like to see a situation where we emphasise on community health by training community health workers well so that they can be part of our preventive actions for this bad disease. I feel that if we have community health workers, we can use them in rural counties and constituencies. I am one of the MPs who would use them if only ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: On the treatment side, matters may be more complicated because we need experts for treatment. We can use community health workers and also try to use our dispensaries for screening purposes. Once the screening has been done and if it is still on the preliminary stages, community health workers can be told what to do to contain the situation and even eliminate it. As we speak, there are a number of injections given to infants when they are about four months old. That kind of preventive care should include diabetes so that it is checked early enough. I am sure ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Report, which I support. When talking about the NG-CDF, we are practically talking of everything in our rural constituencies. In fact, almost everybody talks of the NG-CDF. When asking your constituents to vote for you to Bunge, they would want to know how you will deal with the NG-CDF money. This is the money that we are talking about. Although they are large in terms of amount, in terms of impact on the ground, people tend to look at the NG-CDF as the beginning and ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: small compared to the demand, which is very high. I support what my colleagues said earlier that the 2.5 per cent NG-CDF ceiling should be increased to 3 per cent. If it were possible, the percentage should be higher than that 3 per cent. This year, the Government decided that all the pupils who did their Class Eight exams should proceed with their education to Form One yet there were no preparations to provide for the extra classrooms that would be required. Last December, I happened to be in a secondary school for a different function and the principal of ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: There was also a complaint that some areas are much richer than others. Some areas are poorer. I grade my constituency in the category of poverty. If a constituency is poor, it means that you need to provide a good amount of bursary to the students who would otherwise stop going to school. Being a Member of Parliament in Nairobi County is a good opportunity because it has the richest people in the country. Even if you do not give bursary to children in most areas in Nairobi County, they will still go to school. Therefore, I feel that comparing ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me say something about the oversight committee. It needs to be funded and empowered because it can put sense into people, so that they can use the money fairly. I am aware that the NG-CDF is the only Fund that has stages of auditing. The normal one is the Government audit. The other auditing, which happens in the NG-CDF that people do not talk about, but it is true, is the public opinion auditing which is the worst for a Member of Parliament or any politician. If you are not using the NG-CDF well, you ... view