David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want your ear on this because it is important. This is very important. I want you to get this. Some years back, KANU was the only party in this country. In Siakago Constituency where you come from, Hon. Nyenze, who is not here today, was the returning officer. You remember how he messed up the KANU nominations and gave the ticket to somebody else and not you. He rigged you out and you know it. You cannot preside over those matters and allow this kind of thing to happen. My case against my party in 2013 was ... view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: when you have laws to regulate such? I want you to allow us to amend this Bill to make sure that Commissioners are appointed in the right manner. You cannot give the President two names to choose from and yet, he will also be a candidate in the coming elections. You cannot give him nine names for him to appoint seven, when he will be a party in the coming elections. Sen. Kiraitu and Sen. Orengo should have seen those anomalies and corrected them. Even in the last law, Kibaki and Raila were supposed to consult. Now we are saying ... view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support Hon. Neto’s amendment. Our laws go together. We know that there are constituencies with 100,000 people and others with 200,000 people in this country. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I support Hon. Neto’s amendment and request Hon. Members to support it. If you look at the laws we have, you will find that we have allowed constituencies that have 90,000 people and others with 200,000 people to be created. The 10 per cent he is proposing is going to help those constituencies that have more people and poverty than those that do not have. There is also a difference between constituencies in urban areas and those in the rural areas, which Hon. Neto seeks to address. I implore Hon. Members that we cannot apportion equally without taking due account ... view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I support. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to support this Bill brought by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. This is one of those bills that must be brought before the Floor of the House. It is a Bill that has almost become customary in its provisions on how we deal with it. I have gone through the Bill and members have spoken about the specific provisions. I would like to start from what I think is important to this country moving forward. We need to get ways of baking a bigger and ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to also support Hon. M’eruaki’s Petition. In May this year, we had a report from the media that a certain soldier who had participated in the Linda Nchi Operation in Somalia was dismissed because of a mental condition. The same month, we were told that another soldier was also dismissed even after five doctors concurred that he was suffering from mental problems. This is not the first Petition that has been brought by a Member on the matter of military personnel. I hope that the Committee concerned can delve deep into this matter and ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Public Accounts Committee on Government Accounts for the Year 2013/2014. I thank the Chairman, Hon. Gumbo, for doing a good job especially under the pressures we have gone through in the last few years, especially with issues to do with the Office of the Auditor-General and his work. To do this kind of Report takes time and requires a lot of dedication. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I have read this Report. I want to start from where they have started. This time, the Government has Kshs66 billion not supported and yet not spent. I ask Hon. Gumbo to give us further details because I did not see much of the details in this Report in terms of expenditures and why we allow ministries to spend money without providing support. It will also be good to know whether this expenditure was actually approved by Parliament. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: At a time when this country is barely struggling to keep children in school, to have medicine in hospitals and a huge wage Bill, we are having money being spent helter-skelter without us knowing where the money is going. As we look at these accounts, one of the things I have noted here is the incapacity or inability of the Kenya Revenue Authority to seal loopholes of corruption. If money is collected, the way we should do it--- Under the coalition Government and the Kibaki Government, we saw our revenue go up by two-fold or three-fold because the Kenya Revenue ... view