David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: BBI, they are saying that this BBI is going to help the future. The future is youth because 75 per cent of our population is youth. If you are discussing posterity, you are discussing a system that is going to put us on a path to growth and there is no young person represented in that panel. How are you going to do that? We cannot have 80-year-olds deciding for 22-year-olds. You only have to ensure that those people are mainstreamed in those structures. You cannot dance to reggae and hope that it is going to help them get jobs. ... view
• 5 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Committee of the whole! view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Ahsante sana, Mhe. Spika. Nina furaha sana nikiunga mkono Hoja hii ya kuleta Kanuni za Kudumu za Bunge la Taifa. Lugha ya Kiswahili ni muhimu sana na Katiba imeitambua kama lugha ya kitaifa pamoja na lugha ya Kiingereza. Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki inatumia lugha hii ya Kiswahili. Kiswahili kinafudishwa katika shule za msingi, sekondari na hata vyuo vikuu. Leo hii ni jambo la busara kwa sababu Wabunge wamekubaliana na aliyeleta Hoja hii kwamba Kiswahili ni lugha tunayotumia tukitafuta kura. Pia ni lugha ya mama kwa kila mtu mtaani. Kwa hivyo, tukipitisha hizi Kanuni, Wabunge wote hata mimi ni lazima tujue ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Petition and note that the Committee to which you have referred the Petition should generally, in their own time, look at the issue of public institutions where people donate land. This is happening all over the country where 30 years later, people come up with such matters. They could have legitimate claims sometimes, but sometimes people want to get back what they already gave out freely. So, this Committee should get to the bottom of those kinds of matters. Just as an example, throughout the country, we have primary schools and secondary schools ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Speaker. Let us not miss the point. The point that is being raised by Hon. Didmus Barasa is very important. It is not about the legality of the position of CAS or the propriety of that position. It is about whether a CAS is legally allowed to appear before a committee to answer a question addressed to the CS. That is the issue. The issue is not who was answering questions. No! Hon. Speaker, the issue you are being asked to rule on… Article 153(3) of the Constitution says that one of the roles of CSs is that ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: answer any question concerning a matter for which the CS is responsible. That is the job of the CS and nobody else. So, whether somebody else can purport to represent the CS or to say that the CS is sick, is what you are being asked to rule on, Hon. Speaker. This is not a delegatable function. This is not a function that a CS can delegate and say: “So and so go and read this.” I was in that Committee in the morning where the Hon. Member raised the issue and someone was pointing to the fact that the ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: What are they called? Chief Administrative Secretaries! It does not even appear within the framework of Public Service. They are neither here nor there in terms of the pecking order. Someone suggested in the Committee that the CAS is senior to the PS. That is the arrangement of the Executive. The persons we know that the Constitution recognises are the positions of the CS and the PS. If the President wants to appoint anybody in the Public Service, he is allowed, but he cannot choose for us who will answer questions in Parliament. The questions that we will ask in ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: So, Hon. Speaker, as you do your direction and ruling, I request you to consider whether, in terms of oversight, it will be appropriate to allow anybody other than the CS or the PS and whether, in future, apart from the CAS that is being talked about, like a director, a secretary or any other position to appear before Parliament to answer a question that is directed to the CS. This happens a lot. People have been sent to committees and the chairs have no direction on how they are supposed to deal with them. Hon. Speaker, I beseech you ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to oppose this Bill. For your information, this Bill does not deal with punishment for corruption per se . It deals with inducements, abuse of office, conflict of interest, bid rigging and conspiracies. Any insinuation that this Bill deals with the omnibus punishment for all offences in the world is not true. I want to start by saying that it has been proven that punishment, however severe or less severe, does not deter corruption. Corruption has to be fought using different tools. Whereas criminalising corruption and providing for punishment is good, evidence ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The same Section 48 that Hon. Nyoro seeks to amend provides, at sections 48(1)(b) and 48(2), how else the punishment can be meted out. If the money or value of the property lost through that offense is Kshs10 million or Kshs20 million, the law allows the courts to give a punishment that is beyond Kshs1 million. Section 48(2) states that the punishment thereof could also be based on calculating how much was lost and doubling it. So, if Kshs10 million was lost, the courts can order Kshs20 million in terms of punishment. That is what is in the law. So, ... view