David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: The first thing that all of us must do, as Members of Parliament, is to make the country learn the values we stand for in the Constitution, and let them cascade down to our primary schools, secondary schools, learning systems and our lives, so that when you talk about national values and principles of governance, we know about them. It is difficult to live with something you do not know about. It is difficult to live with these principles because we do not know about them. The first stage should be to know these principles and values and then we ... view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: The President talked about something called “public debt” and he said it is sustainable. Our public debt is getting out of hand. You cannot say that our current level of public debt is sustainable unless the meaning of that word has changed. We need to make public debt sustainable and payable. We cannot mortgage this country for the next 1,000 years. So, we must ensure that we control the public debt. view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Of all the things that the President said, the major challenge which he did not confront, and which he should confront, is the major threat to national security; the major threat to national values and everything else in this country is what you call “ethnicity”. Sometimes we call it “tribalism”, other times we call it “brotherisation” and sometimes we call it “nepotism”. This is the biggest threat to national security. This is the biggest threat to everything else we do in this country. Every Kenyan nowadays looks at himself in terms of tribe, in terms of where he comes from ... view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: We talk about young people and their access to opportunities; this is the next scandal. You can be sure that if the President comes up with another list next year, he will come here with a list of adults, people who will be beyond 35 years of age, and who will have got contracts that are meant for young people. I am sure that list will come next year because this is where we are headed. We put aside money for young people to get contracts. Now we have had older people having companies in names of their children. Their ... view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Finally, I wanted to say something about our international obligations. We spend so much money negotiating deals, especially bilateral trade deals. The President himself has gone out of the country, I think, more than six times now. Can we account for the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: deals we sign? Can we make sure that if we enter into trade deals, we come back to the country and prepare our traders, so that they can access markets? view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I beg to support. Thank you. view
• 24 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I wish to support the deletion by the Chair for the reason he has explained. I want to request hon. Members who are concerned to note that this is a matter where there is a law in this country on enforcing orders of the court. You do not need to go this way of putting the sword of Damocles on someone’s head for five years; that he can be arrested at any time on request of anybody. Therefore, I support the deletion. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, hon. Speaker. The issues raised by hon. A.B. Duale and hon. Eseli are very important. Somehow, we must get a way of having an end to the incessant wars between the National Assembly and the Senate. We must get away from that situation. I was looking at two sections, which I thought could assist us in doing so, as you consider what the hon. Member has raised. In fact, I thought that if you were to make a ruling on this, then it should not be done in this House. You should look at it, think ... view