David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: With those many remarks, I hope the CBK will step up and ensure that they make regulations as soon as possible to promote digital lending and also go along way in ensuring that borrowers are protected. view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I wish to seek the following replies from the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary state the number of public entities that have been privatised since the establishment of the Privatisation Commission? (ii) Why did the Government bypass the Commission in its privatisation of the National Bank of Kenya and in the ongoing efforts at State-owned sugar factories? (iii) When does the Cabinet Secretary intend to fill the existing vacancies in the membership of the Privatisation Commission? (iv) What steps does the Cabinet Secretary intend to take to ensure the Commission ... view
• 7 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have struggled very much to understand how the Senate spends its time. The Bill is dated 2018, meaning it has been pending for quite a while - for four years - and it lands on the Floor of the National Assembly. I cannot see flesh. I cannot see reason. I cannot see mischief. I cannot see what is being remedied by this Bill. I thought that what is required of the Senate is to come up with structures and systems that work, and that do not replicate the national Government structures. ... view
• 7 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: That is what they like to be referred to. Therefore, they are cabinet secretaries. Then we have people called officers, who prefer to be permanent secretaries. Then we have directors, deputy directors going down and replicating the bureaucracy of the national Government, which they did not need. I would imagine the Senate would use its time better to help county governments to put up systems and structures that would make the systems work. However, in my opinion, the Senate should not be very partisan because I am almost certain this Bill must have come from an experience of a particular ... view
• 7 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: required the secretary to have these qualifications because this is the person who sits in that board on a daily basis. He is the CEO of that board. I would have required the person to have better qualifications in that area than the chairperson. However, what are they doing? They are even removing the basic qualifications that existed before of the secretary of the board. The person who sits there every day does not require a degree. They have removed it. How will you function? You are going to pick anyone from the village to be secretary of the board. ... view
• 7 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: So, I would propose that if the Senate will come up with the law, I would sit down with Hon. (Dr.) Oundo because he has very good ideas in this area to come up with a Bill that would streamline how the county public service board works holistically in terms of who is required there, the qualifications for the members of the board, so that by the time we end up with the amendment, we also see a leaner staff. This is what we mean by systems; a leaner county service. We do not need all this bureaucracy that has ... view
• 7 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I oppose. Thank you view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I did not intend to speak on this matter, but Hon. Duale has talked about something. The same Constitution says the President and governors must have degrees. So, we are just extending this provision to make sure that those who come to this House do not stay here for four years without saying anything. There are Members who stay in this House for five years without saying anything and claim to be working on the ground. Our first and foremost duty as Members of this House is to debate in this Chamber, to legislate and bring Bills, not ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. With a very heavy heart, I cannot believe I stand here this afternoon to talk about Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo aka Otada. In the last campaigns I used to call him ‘Otada times four’. It is so saddening that he is now being called the late Jakoyo Midiwo. I believe that one day even death will die. Jakoyo was so friendly, so honest and so forthright. In 2012 when I was running to be Member of Parliament for Ugenya, he met me at the airport. I was fighting with my current Senator on whether I ... view