David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, as I said, I will support my Vice Chair on this. The laws we make must be in tune with their circumstances, and written in such a way that most of the monies politicians use in Kenya to campaign are not raised from people. It is money from individuals’ own savings and individuals’ own hard work. It will be very hard to ask someone like me to put together a committee to look at how I will spend the money I have raised. I have not gone to the public to look for money to ... view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: sense. I was going to persuade her to possibly consider just doing away with the whole of part “a”. It now reads that the IEBC shall keep a register of authorized persons under the Act. I do not think that looks like a very good function of the Commission. It is just a matter of appeal; it must not go, but my own feeling is that if it remains, it looks superfluous to me. But I agree with the principle of the proposal made, that we do away with the expenditure committees. I support. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you so much. We thank God for that, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I want to stress the fact that what we are trying to create is a very important fund; the moment we start doing politics with it, we will lose it. I think the idea that this is free money for hon. Members to dish out is a very wrong idea. If we do not put mechanisms in place, this is going to be a--- If we are not careful, we will give money to people in the first instance, and then you will not have money ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to add my voice to the debate that is going on, on the Media Council Bill. I agree with hon. Members who have said that we must guard the freedom of the Press or the media jealously. We mustalso ensure that in so doing responsibilities, duties and rights are apportioned as the law may require. When I was watching news yesterday night – I do not intend to quote – I heard someone say that the Media Council Bill is draconian, and that this Assembly is just about a ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as much as I love the Press and as much as I want them to be free, I think they should also not seek to gag this House in what it does. The fact that you say something that does not support this Bill when you are debating does not mean that you do not like the Press. It is very disheartening. We want to do the right thing. If the media thinks that anything that this House does is draconian, then let them bring us the Bill they want us to pass and we ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I am happy that the Chair is a lawyer and my colleague who is seated next to me is a surveyor and there are qualifications that attain to that. If you look at Clause 2 of this Bill, you will find that a “journalist” means any person who engages in the practice of 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
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: journalism. Where did they go to school? Who accords them that right to practice journalism? So, we need to get that definition right. Let us know who a journalist is so that not everybody wakes up and says that he is a journalist and he is so described. view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Let them bring to us the right definition. Let them tell us who approves them to be journalists. We must know that the practising journalists in this country have gone through the required training and therefore, they understand their code of conduct, the laws that go with that profession and the responsibility of being a journalist so that we have the right people practising journalism in this country. That is why I will be proposing amendments so that we have the right definition of what a journalist is in this country. view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Media Council being proposed is not a dispute settlement mechanism. The roles there are very clear as indicated in Clause 6. That is why saying that the Media Council will be a body that will facilitate resolution of disputes between the Government and the media and between the public and the media and intermediary whereas in the same Bill, we are proposing to have a Complaints Commission is illogical. If we are proposing that there will be dispute mechanism in the Bill, then let all the disputes be settled within that framework and not ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: If you look at Clause 6, you will see that it has very many other roles. I do not think that the roles as proposed are congruent with the role of the Media Council again in settling disputes. Again, I will be bringing amendments to that effect to ensure that the body established within this Bill that is supposed to settle disputes does so without interference from the Media Council. view