Christine Oduor Ombaka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I am a Member of this Committee. We also observed that there are too many taxes – nine of them. I want to just mention a few of them. We have nine taxes just for petrol. We have excise duty, VAT, Road Maintenance Levy, Anti-Adulteration Levy, Petroleum Development Levy, Petroleum Regulatory Levy, Railway Development Levy, Import Declaration Fee and Merchant Shipping Fee. These nine taxes add to 35 per cent of taxation on petrol. So, we need to remove some of these. We also noticed that the cost of petrol in ... view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to support this as well because we all know the importance of water and without water, we cannot be alive. Even animals cannot be alive. It is a very good Policy. We know that we have had problems with water in this country. When we have water, it can be excess. People suffer during floods. That is the kind of water that needs to be collected and protected. It should not be seen to go to waste. Somehow, we always just let it go and people drown in the ... view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. It is true that what has been presented here is highly supported. I as a Member who has been supporting students who want to get clearance with some little funds from my pocket, I find it very frustrating. Young people who have opportunity to get jobs are losing them simply because it is so difficult to get the documents. First of all, getting to where the documents are found is not easy. Transport is expensive. They are not employed and they have no income. view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. It is true that what has been presented here is highly supported. I as a Member who has been supporting students who want to get clearance with some little funds from my pocket, I find it very frustrating. Young people who have opportunity to get jobs are losing them simply because it is so difficult to get the documents. First of all, getting to where the documents are found is not easy. Transport is expensive. They are not employed and they have no income. view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Although this is not what I wanted to contribute to, it is important I say something. Sorry, let me just take my time because I was not paying attention. view
• 17 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: (Siaya (CWR), ODM) view
• 17 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill which I highly support. This country is blessed with water resources including Lake Victoria, which is one of the fresh water lakes in the world and it is not being utilised well when it comes to irrigation. This country suffers a lot from hunger. Children, women and people in dry areas suffer from hunger during drought and sometimes the whole world gets concerned and sends food and money to support the people who are suffering in this country. Therefore, irrigation is a solution to ... view
• 5 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important amendment Bill which is related to health. Health is a very important aspect of our lives and it has been riddled with so many challenges in this country for several years. This is one opportunity that we have to improve the health system and the NHIF in particular. I look back at how the NHIF has been utilised and I still see so many challenges. Many people do not know about the NHIF and this should be looked at before we get to ... view
• 5 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you. I am saying that most people especially in the villages are not aware that there is NHIF to which they should be members and contributing to. However, even the contribution of Kshs500 is just way above what they can afford. Majority of them are not employed. Others are very old people who retired a long time back and some of them never worked and are not retired. Many of them have no income. So, even if you reduce this to Kshs300, it is still going to be expensive. I still wish we could reduce further to Kshs100, so ... view
• 5 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: If it gets lost, we lose. We will be contributing so much money and still we will not be getting that care that we need because there will be no funds. If you look at hospitals, they do not have resources. The doctors and nurses are so few. Even the equipment that they need is hardly there. The other day, we had a big tragedy in Siaya where people got burnt as a result of a fuel tanker accident that occurred at Malanga. I went to visit the sick in hospital. I must admit that the hospital is very clean, ... view