Christine Oduor Ombaka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: How do you want me to do it? I am not so sure. Maybe what I wanted to highlight is not exactly what you understand. What I wanted to say is that suddenly their lifestyle changes. They get shocked with the new life after retirement and they die so quickly. Does that sound better? view
• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I wanted to highlight the fact that we need to save a lot of money for a country that is so poor. Part of doing it is by the way we handle transport and the way we treat our senior staff. It is high time that we began to cut down on costs. If you look at other countries abroad, senior civil servants there are very humble. They live humbly and they want to be treated that way. For us here we tend to highlight the higher side. I know we all enjoy good life and we want to travel ... view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity, which I have been waiting for, for so long. I have finally got it. view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I am a Member of this very distinguished Committee that came up with this report, and I want to support it because, as we have emphasized since we started debating this Motion, the process was flawed. What is the process that was flawed? A process is a step-by-step way of doing something in order to come up with a product. So, all that was done was wrong and questionable. It was never transparent. It was totally biased. It starts with who the interviewer interviewing those who turned up to be interviewed is. The interviewer turned out to be a candidate. ... view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: became a candidate, and that candidate became number one. That was a failure in the first step of that process. After the names of the successful candidates were forwarded to the appointing authority, another name was sneaked into the list. It is number 16, with 44.4 marks. That name was initially not there. That is another flaw. The name was not the correct one, and that makes it very funny. I am jumping to the last point because everybody now knows that the whole process was flawed. We have highlighted here that people with disabilities were not considered. When we ... view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there were also two persons with disabilities in that interview. Thirdly, there was a person living with disability, who was not considered. That is a flawed process. So, why were the two not thought of, when giving us the list of those who should be nominated? I do not want to belabour this point because we have talked about it so much. However, the process was biased. It would be shameful for us, as hon. Members, to approve a wrong process and claim to be doing the right thing. As a Committee, we met several times ... view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I support this report and I appeal to the whole House to give it a chance. Thank you. view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity which I have been looking for. I am a Member of this Committee and I want to say that the two ladies were very impressive and had very strong CVs. Their education was impeccable. Dr. Salome is currently the Director of Higher Education and she has a distinguished experience. We found her to be the right person for that position. However, what is regrettable about Dr. Salome is that she has only two years to retire. This means that the experience that she is coming with will not be felt ... view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Ms. Saadia was also very impressive because she comes from a very humble educational background. She was actually an Early Childhood Education (ECD) or nursery school teacher. She got her first degree and then a Masters degree. She is now a PhD candidate or student. It was very impressive because for many women from the minority communities, that kind of progression is not very easy and she has achieved it. So, she turns out as role model to many people. These are the reasons we felt that she deserved that position. view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I just want to take this chance to congratulate the two ladies because they were extremely impressive. I am crying that the retirement age of 60 years should be reviewed because some people still appear very young at that age. For example, Dr. Salome appears very young but she has two years to go home. This means that we will lose her within a short time and look for somebody to replace her. Otherwise, I support this Motion and hope that the whole House will lend them a hand. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view