David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. For the last one month we have been struggling to reinstate the Judiciary budget after it had been reduced through the supplementary process of rationalizing and reorganizing the Government Budget. You can imagine the Registrar of Judiciary trying to camp in the corridors of the National Treasury and Parliament to see if she will get enough money to run the Judiciary. It is a wrong thing to do. To require the Registrar of the Judiciary to negotiate all the time with bodies so that ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: It may surprise you that when this Bill first came to the Committee, it was a regulation. We thought that probably they did not understand what the country meant when they said they wanted legislation. The first thing that came before us and Members of the Committee can attest to it was a regulation. Article 173 is clear that a fund should be established to be run by the Judiciary. In this Fund, there is no role for the JSC Commission at all to play in the way this Fund works. The Registrar is the sole Accounting Officer, the buck ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: In the last PSC report we had here, you saw the tug of war between the Registrar of the Judiciary and the JSC in terms of how money should be spent with the JSC saying up to Kshs50 million, they would allow the Registrar to approve. From Kshs50 million onwards, there is a special committee of the JSC to approve yet the JSC has no role to play at all in terms of how the day to day operations of the Judiciary are run. This is information to the Registrar that on this one, no one there will be a ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Last month, when we were looking at the Supplementary Budget the main issue was the certificate that had been presented by contractors and could not be paid. The National Treasury was telling the Judiciary that they must give them Kshs1 billion because they have to rationalize the Budget. If this Bill goes through then the money will go to the Judiciary Fund and they will plan their work. I have heard stories about absorption. You can imagine if you have to advertise and procure for Kshs10 billion in a country that is becoming over-religious, everyone is litigating nowadays. Everyone goes ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: The independence of the Judiciary is not only the independence of judges. They require the independence of even the clerks down there, knowing that capacity and resources are there to do whatever they may want to. That is why in Clause 13, although there is a typo that can be corrected at the right time, they are allowing the Registrar to allow the Deputy Registrar or sub- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: registrar somewhere in Busia to procure. Like someone said, why would they want to procure tea and cleaning services for staff in Busia, for example, in Nairobi? Are there no cleaners in Busia? Why not allow Busia people to do the cleaning? Why would they want to centralize cleaning services for the Judiciary; like having staff from Nairobi going to clean in Bungoma? Allow the person down there to procure at least for cleaning and provision of sugar. That is why we are allowing the Registrar to authorise certain officers to incur expenditure. It helps. That is why in this ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Whether it is donor money or whatever you want to call them; development partners or any other name since there are so many names. That is why we provided that all the monies that someone would want to give to the Judiciary should be put into this Fund, over and above what Parliament will have voted for them. The idea that Parliament cannot oversee donor funds is a fallacy. Public institutions get money from donors because they are Government institutions. Donors do not give money to non-government institutions, except NGOs. Therefore, people should not hide behind donor structures and say ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: This afternoon and part of the morning, we were discussing the Political Parties Act. Under that Act, we established a body called the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal. Like many other tribunals, this tribunal does not have money. Giving enough money to the Judiciary will ensure that it plans for them. We have passed a law that requires that all tribunals, whether they are for sports or music, to fall under the Judiciary. Most of them are underfunded. Once you have money, people in the Judiciary will rationalize and decide which ones have so much work, which ones need how much ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Finally, we hope that once this Bill goes through, the Judiciary can go back to what it was. We have seen older lawyers trying to hold the Judiciary hostage. You see in newspapers and blogs how older lawyers in the JSC are trying to hold the Judiciary to ransom. We cannot be doing surgeries every year. People should just have good manners. Lawyers should continue being lawyers. We cannot have crooks becoming lawyers and judges. We need to reclaim our country. Once that happens, we hope that the money that will be given to them will help reclaim the soul ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view