David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Mar 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Chairperson. I want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Chairman for a good job. The PSC has finally said they want to finalise. I want to ask the Chairperson as they do so to spare even Ksh5 million to give us a walkway. This is because walking from the Co-operative Bank to Continental House is difficult. By doing so, they will make the lives of the Members of Parliament a bit easier. We cannot brush our shoes seven times in a day. This is because when we go to our offices or gym at ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Amen to those prayers. view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: I beg to second and note that throughout the ages and within our own democracy, we have made so many strides through peaceful legal reforms and peaceful amendments to our laws. You can only change society by having a conversation and a dialogue and by agreeing every now and then, what law works for you and which one does not. I believe that the President’s memorandum is made in that light. He recognises that Parliament has a big role to play in legal reform and that we need to have a conversation. So, instead of issuing an edict or doing ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: I want to thank our Deputy Speaker for allowing time for this conversation because we have come from far and our society has changed so much. In America for almost 100 years, women never voted. Our democracy started with everyone having the right to vote. I believe that through talking to each other and reforming laws, when necessary, we make our society better. I want us to look at this memorandum from the President in that light. That we have been struggling with ensuring that women come to this House. Women who are here can tell you so. You are ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: our constituencies today and look at the kind of money we spend on administering National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), it is less than 10 million. Compare that to how much the counties are using to employ staff for administration. It is 40 per cent and in some places 50 per cent. If we entrenched NG-CDF and National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF); if we allowed Senate to have some resources to be able to go around to ensure that counties’ money work, we will be better off. We need more money in the grassroots and not less. No one ... view
• 8 Dec 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. For the last 15 to 20 years, we have spent enormous resources and competences trying to raise the ease of doing business indices. In the last Parliament, for example, we passed the Companies Act, a new succession law and new investment laws. All these are geared towards attracting investments to the country. The paradox is that the investments we are now making in the public sector have become the new Goldenberg scandals. They have become the new corruption fronts. At the advent of devolution in 2013, we saw people who were white and ... view
• 22 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Issues of GMOs are quite emotive. I wish in this debate we could put the matters… view
• 22 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Pukose, allow me to… In this debate, we need to put the matters where they lie. The matters of maize and importation of maize lie elsewhere away from the debate on GMOs. The GMOs evoke emotive issues, moral issues, ethical issues, medical issues and scientific issues. These are issues that I do not think we are tooled enough with our bare hands as Members of Parliament to determine. That is why we set up institutions in this country to help us deal with such issues. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified ... view
• 22 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: We have passed laws here on biosafety. I am certain that institutions that we have set up can advise us based on whether GMO is right or wrong. My region; western Kenya, does very well in cotton. We stopped growing cotton long time ago and indigenous cotton seed is not doing well. I would be persuaded with the right evidence that if we get the GMO cotton, it could do well in western Kenya, and then we would be advised to adopt Bt Cotton. In that case, I would be supporting any GMO product that is non-food. We could use ... view
• 9 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you so much. view