David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 301 to 310 of 2320.

• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. This amendment is all good and I support it. However, the issue is the practicability of it. What about where the Fund decides to offer its assets as security in a matter they are dealing with? Such things have happened. The NSSF has had that provision in the Act, but we know what has 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
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: happened to its property. There are times when through corruption, people have gone to court and sold its property. So, what is important here is that even if this law is written, the officers of the Fund must know that they will be personally liable if they go round this particular provision and offer the properties of the Fund for any such liabilities that may open the Fund up to auction or attachment. I thank you. view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to thank Hon. Mbadi for bringing this amendment. How I wish he had spoken to me, because I would have told him to add something more. Why do you want Kenyans to use NHIF when in Parliament we are using Jubilee Insurance and others? Let us ensure that all public servants, including Members of Parliament and everybody in Government services, are wholly and fully insured by the NHIF, if we are serious about this issue. You would have added an amendment that says that no public servant shall opt out ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to thank Hon. Mbadi for bringing this amendment. How I wish he had spoken to me, because I would have told him to add something more. Why do you want Kenyans to use NHIF when in Parliament we are using Jubilee Insurance and others? Let us ensure that all public servants, including Members of Parliament and everybody in Government services, are wholly and fully insured by the NHIF, if we are serious about this issue. You would have added an amendment that says that no public servant shall opt out ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, you know we are making very far reaching changes to the NHIF framework. I would wish that we give the appointing authority a clean sheet to get a Board that will help him or her to implement this Act. Why are we saving people? I oppose this amendment by Hon. Ichung’wah because of what we have just talked about here. There are things we are trying to clean up and we are not talking about a very clean institution. This is an institution that has had so many problems. I would imagine that if it were ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, you know we are making very far reaching changes to the NHIF framework. I would wish that we give the appointing authority a clean sheet to get a Board that will help him or her to implement this Act. Why are we saving people? I oppose this amendment by Hon. Ichung’wah because of what we have just talked about here. There are things we are trying to clean up and we are not talking about a very clean institution. This is an institution that has had so many problems. I would imagine that if it were ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. I want to support the Petition by Hon. Omboko. As the Committee goes to look at this Petition, could they ask the TSC whether they have finished training and retooling teachers for CBC? You cannot be coming with a programme and before you implement it, you come up with another one that has no relevance to what you had planned earlier. The focus now should be on retraining and retooling teachers to be able to implement CBC effectively. Secondly, sometime back, the Kenya School of Law was denied the chance to train lawyers who ... view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Having gone through the Social Assistance Act, 2013 and having listened to fellow Members speak on this Bill, I am tempted to request the Leader of the Majority Party, who is going to speak after me, to consider withdrawing this Bill instead of trying to tell us to go on with this. Where he sits, he would tell you that in progressive law making, there is no room for moving backwards. I have never heard of a statute being downgraded into a regulation. We upgrade regulations into statutes. We upgrade a Gazette ... view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: know that our Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) is established under regulations? In the rest of the world, SGRs are established by law. In our case, it is because people want room for corruption. Like in this case, we are talking of not less than Kshs26 billion a year. There being no explanation for the proposed repeal of this Act, I tend to think that this is an attempt by the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to control these funds not for purposes of bettering service delivery in terms of ensuring that more desiring individuals access the ... view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you need to protect me because what they are talking about is distracting me. view