David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Secondly, this amendment will ensure that that court when established will be fully funded and will enjoy the jurisdiction and the powers of a High Court. We agreed at the Committee level that there have been attempts in this Bill to try and put that court at a level lower than that of a High Court and yet the Constitution is very clear that this is a court with the same powers of a High Court. So, my Committee and I will bring amendments to ensure that the powers and privileges that have been envisaged by the Constitution for this ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to contribute with regard to the amendment relating to the Political Parties Act. The Political Parties Act is a very important instrument in entrenching democracy in this country and. as you would know, the current Registrar of Political Parties in this country was not recruited in a competitive manner. So, the proposal made under this Bill is to ensure that any future registrars of political parties are recruited competitively through a process that follows the law. However, I have a problem with the current postulation in the Bill. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Bill presupposes that the President will get names among the citizenry and bring them to this Assembly for approval. Now, what the Bill does not tell us is where the President will get the names from. I think this House needs to think critically on where the President should get those names. When the time comes, I will bring amendments to ensure that the names of the persons who shall participate in the selection committee that the President will bring to this House comes from the Political Parties Liaison Committee. This is to ensure that the names ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are very good amendments with regard to the Anti-Counterfeit law. This is the vice that has made this country not be able to industrialize. Every time someone starts a small business or every time someone wants to do something serious, counterfeits come in. What counterfeits do to a country can only be equated to what a terrorist can do to a country. That is because this Parliament last year and this year has approved so much money for industrial development. But we cannot develop if we are being choked by counterfeits. That is why I ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are a couple of barons, maybe, three or four only. There are sugar and drugs barons. Then there are the counterfeiters. That is a vice that must be fought with all our might and energy and we must support any attempts 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
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: at ensuring that the Anti-Counterfeit Agency has a proper way to undertake its duties. The protection of copyright is also very important and the Bill proposes to do that. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have very few land ports in this country. There is one in Kisumu. Probably, there should be one in Turkana. This Bill proposes to enable the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to develop and manage those ports and that is the way it should be. The lakes and inland water ports are shared resources. So, they are resources that you cannot let a county manage. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we do this, I want to request KPA to move with speed and not only reclaim what was theirs originally, but to invest resources and, most importantly, in the Kisumu inland port. That is because Kisumu is going to be the hub of the East African Community (EAC). It cannot be the hub of the EAC if the very basic instrument of promoting trade – the inland port – is dilapidated. So, once this Bill is passed, we hope that KPA will move with speed, put resources into this, develop it and ensure that by ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to talk about the Legal Education Act and the Kenya School of Law Act. Last year and last year but one, we have been trying to make reforms in this regard. We have been trying to ensure that the Kenya School of Law is able to run and run independently from the Council for Legal Education. The proposals made in this Bill are just meant to do that. They are also meant to streamline an issue that has been disturbing for a long time, where parents of students spent so much money out there to train ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, as I pen off, I just want to also underline two Bills that have been proposed for amendment. On the Law Reform Commission Bill, this is now an independent institution and this Bill proposes to make it more independent so that it is able to do what it is supposed to do. view