David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker “hustler” is an English term for that person who is just trying to survive. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a hustler, the last time I checked, is a person who is trying to hustle. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and that is why I said it should not be hustlers with jets. It should be hustlers that are real hustlers. These are people who actually would benefit from these benefits. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want us to draw parallels with what is happening in South Africa as a country. They have something called BEP and that is the Black Empowerment Programme and there are a lot of reasons for that programme about the challenges and the opportunities. We do not want this particular law to produce 10,000 very rich young people and leaving a whole 30 to 40 million young people without anything. We must be hawk eyed to ensure that the real youth are able to benefit from these opportunities. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we speak we see companies and Government entities advertising for tenders and the only ones they put aside for the youth are supply of flowers, milk, toothpaste and so on. These are things that do not have money. I have seen so many of them coming out where they say: “Oh, the ones for 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
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: flowers have been left for the youth. The ones for milk have been left for the youth.” We want the youth to access real tenders – the ones that have money. We have one going on now – the one for laptops. I think most of the people who are involved in Information Technology (IT) are young people. Why do we not allow them to access these tenders? Why do you want to confine them to milk and flowers and yet they have the capacity to basically do anything that is required of them? view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what we are doing today is not something that we are doing as a matter of goodwill. The Constitution requires us, as the Mover said, under Article 55 that we as a Parliament must take steps to ensure that these people named under that particular Article are able to access opportunities, be they economic, social or cultural. That is why I want to urge Members in this House to ensure that as we pass this Bill, we also accompany it with the necessary mechanisms to ensure that we are not just throwing good money after bad ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: This is the area where you now have most procurements being done. Most of our young people live in the rural areas where counties are located. If these county governments do not take it seriously, and that is why I am happy that this is a national law, you have heard about devolution of corruption and I see this happening a lot. If we do not discipline the county governments to ensure that they follow this law, our youth will not grow. I am very sure in my mind that 80 per cent of the youth stay in the rural ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand guided and I am sure the Mover is listening. He has heard that but that alone cannot be the reason because this is the national law and I want to encourage our bodies not to find a reason not to follow the law. They should look for a reason to follow the law. They should not look for a reason not to follow the law because we know that we no longer have local authorities in this country. So, they should not have county governments looking for reasons not to follow the law. They ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the coalition that I belong to which is CORD takes devolution very seriously and that is why we do not have our Governors trying to get routes and means to try to discourage youths from accessing opportunities. They must take steps to ensure that they do so. view