David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: The sooner we take charge of our matters, the better. I plead with you to allow us to call on this Bill again even tomorrow afternoon, so that we go to recess when we are done with it. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 27 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wanted to talk on the whole Bill, but now that you have given me the Floor, I support this amendment. I am happy that our leadership now appreciates the fact that SRC needs to have resources to do its job. I hope we also learnt that most of the time when you talk, you move forward. When you clench your fist, you do not move anywhere. I hope by Parliament unclenching its fists, the SRC will see the fact that Kenyans want them to do their jobs in the right way and not through the ... view
• 27 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: wanted to say that leadership in this country should not be seen to be only possible if someone has money. The idea that everybody is looking for money to do their job is wrong. The CDF money that I have heard people talking about does not go to anybody’s pocket. Members of Parliament do not get any allowance from the CDF. I have heard people say that Members of Parliament have the CDF or something else. Members of Parliament can never pick even Kshs500 as allowance from the CDF. You can now see that most Senators want to become governors ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The matter before you was not a political party matter but a technical matter that you must keenly consider. If you go the Committee’s way, it will open a Pandora’s Box. What happens on a day when the party that produces the President is the Opposition Party in the National Assembly? Where does the PAC come from? During the PNU days, the Members in the ruling party were 45 out of 220. If we go this way, we need to overhaul the Standing Orders so that we reflect what we want as a country. Our Standing ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: As we speak, the United States of America (USA) Congress went home without passing a Budget. However, the country runs because the Congress is run by the Republicans and the presidency is held by the Democrats. The role of Parliament is to make the Budget but not to receive it from the ministries and do what we do here every day. We do it because the majority party in Parliament is the one that has the President. view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as you make a ruling on this matter, consider that the PAC that we have been talking about all along may not be the best Committee in this Parliament to look into the political parties audit report. The departmental committees which consider and approve monies, and the one that looks at the work of the ministries, would be the best to look at how money is spent. If you decide selectively today that you will have a special committee to handle the case of political parties, then what will stop us the next day from asking you to ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: The law is very clear on these matters. If you do not make a ruling, it is very clear in the Standing Orders. Like Hon. Ababu has said, under Standing Order No.205, there will be no reason for you to order formation of a special committee because the law is clear that we give it to the PAC. If you follow what Hon. Chepkong’a told you, we are a mongrel. We are dealing with things we do not understand. I want you to appreciate the fact that if you establish a special committee, the next thing you will ask will ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: The point which you raised is very important; that in the last six or seven years, we have undermined and compromised the position of the Registrar of Political Parties because we fear that if it is strong, it will not work. It is time you put your feet down and required that the relevant party has a confirmed registrar so that we are able to resolve some of these issues the way they should be sorted out. There is so much that could be done in this country by the National Assembly without having to always throw barbs at each ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: The PAC is a very busy committee. It is supposed to look at all expenditure and everything that the national Government does. So, you may consider in your ruling that the Committee should be empowered by the Standing Orders to have sub-committees. We should consider a proper way of running committees that would make it easier for them to work. For instance, if PAC is the one that will do all the work, we should consider having sub-committees entrenched in the Standing Orders to make it work easily and faster. We will go to elections next year. We have parties ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Those are the comments which I wanted to make on political parties audit report. view