David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I like his choice of words. It is, indeed, wrong for the President to switch on lights in a rundown house. It is, in fact, a shame. What if that house falls down tomorrow? You rightly said “rundown”. You cannot support that as a Member of Parliament. Hon. Ababu has presented a Bill on rural housing before this House. I hope we will pass it before the end of this Parliament. You must do sequencing. It is very important to know which one comes first, second and third. The first thing is to help somebody to ... view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In four months’, we are going to elections. We need to unite our country. What brings us together even as we go to the elections? Why is one side saying that one side is going to rig elections? It is because we have not built trust. We must start to build trust here especially in the way we conduct the budget process. So, if Ochieng, Mwaura and Mwaniki can equally access water, medicine and other services, then elections will be based on issues and policies. You will not have to whip your tribal backgrounds ... view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: If we allocate resources equitably, we will not go to the elections fearing that there will be violence. Money has been allocated for use by the elderly of this nation. You will see it being given out in a skewed manner. If you are a Member of Parliament, you have to go plead at the Ministry in order to be given money. So, as I congratulate Hon. Musyimi for having done a very good job within a very short time. I hope we can refer to this Committee, our institutions of oversight, the Budget Office, the Auditor-General’s Office and the ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 7 of the Bill be amended— (a) in sub-clause (1) by deleting the word “ten” appearing at the beginning of paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the word “eight”; (b) by inserting the following new sub-clause immediately after sub-clause (1) — “(1A) In electing members to the Board under subsection (1)(b), members of the Institute shall be guided by the principle of— (a) one-third gender rule; and, (b) regional and ethnic diversity.” As it is, the Bill proposes that the Board be made of 11 members, but we just learnt that ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, currently, Clause 7 talks about the Board being made up of 11 persons comprising of one chairperson and 10 other members. This amendment seeks to reduce the members from 10 to eight. If you add the chairperson to the eight, it now becomes nine. That is what I meant when I said we are reducing the membership of the Board to nine persons instead of 11. We are proposing to delete the word “ten” in Clause 7(i)(b) and replace it with “eight”, so that there can be eight members and one chairperson. That makes the entire ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 14 of the Bill be amended by deleting the words “upon the advice of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission” appearing immediately after the words “determined by the Board”. This was a small anomaly. This is a self-regulating body. It will not be drawing money from public coffers. Therefore, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has no business in setting up remunerations for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). We are just deleting the words “upon the advice of SRC” in terms of approving the salary of the CEO. That is what ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 18 of the Bill be amended by deleting the expression “section 15” and substituting therefor the expression “section 14”. Clause 18 is just a matter of cross-referencing. It should be with Section 14, which talks of the Director and not 15. I, therefore, propose that we delete Sections 15 and 18 and substitute therefore the expression “Sections 14 and 18’’. view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 25 and substituting therefor the following new clause— Appointments 25.(1) Subject to this Act, where a person is appointed to a Board of to public a public entity, organ, enterprise and corporation, such person entities. shall— (a) if not a member of the Institute, make an application for membership and undertake the prescribed training courses within three months of being appointed as a member to such Board; and (b) maintain his or her membership to the Institute for the period of such appointment. (2) ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: be exempted from the requirements set out under subsection (1). This amendment was proposed by many Members while contributing to the debate on the Bill. It is about ensuring that members of the public who get appointed to public boards become members of the institute so that they can familiarise themselves with these rules. I am, therefore, proposing that anybody can be appointed to any public board in the country. We will not block your appointment on the basis of where you come from. However, once you get to the Board, we will require you to be a member of ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, in the Dairy Board of Kenya it states that the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) shall nominate a member of its board or a member of that corporation to sit in the Dairy Board of Kenya. view