David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Panpaper Mills will never ever pick up if this law is not there. The reason Panpaper closed is that we were having a huge surge in imports at that time that it could not keep up with imports from largely Egypt and Brazil. Those are countries that have huge forests, low production costs on their paper products and you cannot compete with them. view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Panpaper Mills will never ever pick up if this law is not there. The reason Panpaper closed is that we were having a huge surge in imports at that time that it could not keep up with imports from largely Egypt and Brazil. Those are countries that have huge forests, low production costs on their paper products and you cannot compete with them. view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: So, pumping money into Panpaper Mills hoping that you are going to revive it is senseless, if you do not sequence it well. Sequencing requires that you have a law first that will enable you to protect the industry before you start putting money in there. view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: So, pumping money into Panpaper Mills hoping that you are going to revive it is senseless, if you do not sequence it well. Sequencing requires that you have a law first that will enable you to protect the industry before you start putting money in there. view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: There is a time when we saw interesting items like tissue paper being trans-shipped from Brazil into Egypt and under the COMESA rules, into Kenya. Those items were being sold at always less than the normal value. The reason was to wipe out any paper industry in Kenya so that they can take over. Unless you have the basic policy, legal and institutional framework that will enable you to intervene in times of rain, like when you want to revive Panpaper, you cannot move. Last month, I saw my President at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) buying textile products ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: There is a time when we saw interesting items like tissue paper being trans-shipped from Brazil into Egypt and under the COMESA rules, into Kenya. Those items were being sold at always less than the normal value. The reason was to wipe out any paper industry in Kenya so that they can take over. Unless you have the basic policy, legal and institutional framework that will enable you to intervene in times of rain, like when you want to revive Panpaper, you cannot move. Last month, I saw my President at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) buying textile products ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Employment is at the core of any Government’s endeavor. Not just the Kenyan Government, but the Ugandan, Zambian and American governments. At the core of it is to try to reduce the level of joblessness and increase employment for the citizens. Everyone is trying to do that always. But if you do not have these kinds of policy instruments, people who have those instruments available for them are able to keep their jobs intact as you lose your jobs. I have said it here before and I will repeat it today. For example, we are now building a huge building ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Employment is at the core of any Government’s endeavor. Not just the Kenyan Government, but the Ugandan, Zambian and American governments. At the core of it is to try to reduce the level of joblessness and increase employment for the citizens. Everyone is trying to do that always. But if you do not have these kinds of policy instruments, people who have those instruments available for them are able to keep their jobs intact as you lose your jobs. I have said it here before and I will repeat it today. For example, we are now building a huge building ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: the purchasing power. It is cyclical that if you import at less than normal value, the price is lower, but the one who wants to buy has already been pushed out of work. The company he used to work for has gone down because of cheaper imports. It does not make sense. That is why we are saying that that institution should do investigations into how much cement is being imported in Kenya today and at how much. How is that impacting on our local cement production in the country? view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: the purchasing power. It is cyclical that if you import at less than normal value, the price is lower, but the one who wants to buy has already been pushed out of work. The company he used to work for has gone down because of cheaper imports. It does not make sense. That is why we are saying that that institution should do investigations into how much cement is being imported in Kenya today and at how much. How is that impacting on our local cement production in the country? view