Elisha Ochieng Odhiambo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for this opportunity. It is important that whoever is doing survey in the Republic of Kenya be a student of 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
• 29 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: statistics and a real student of inferential statistics. I am a student of statistics and normally when you are doing research, you will have to look at basic variables that would then determine the activities between the variables. If you are looking at somebody putting on a short in a constituency and you say that that person is popular, you are talking about coefficient of determination. If you are looking at development and how popular an individual is in social media that is coefficient correlation. I have looked at variables, the information that Infotrak used and I can say this, ... view
• 29 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for the opportunity but I believe that the workers of Infotrak should go back to school as people of Gem would say. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to ask Question No. 026/2020 which is directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs: (i) What steps have been taken by the Ministry to facilitate the retrieval of the body of the late James Osala Nyadenge, a resident of East Gem Ward, Gem Constituency who was murdered while fishing in Lake Victoria, on the Tanzania territorial waters on 31st August, 2020 and his body thrown into the lake? (ii) What diplomatic measures have been put in place to ensure peaceful co-existence between the communities living in all countries that share Lake Victoria ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to share the same sentiments that you are sharing in the House this afternoon. I have two Bills that are pending before the House. One is in the Committee in charge of ICT and it has gone through the First Reading. Sometimes, I imagine the chairmen are sleeping with the very entities that they are supposed to oversight. You wonder why there should be procrastination. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: The second one, Hon. Speaker, is the one for Agriculture - the Kenya Tea Bill. It was the first one and it was going to resolve those issues that the country is discussing in terms of addressing the farmer’s needs. It has taken two years before being addressed. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: The KICA Bill was going to redress the Kenyans who… view
• 4 May 2020 in National Assembly: I am sorry, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Hon. Amisi, you only consume alcohol. You inhale teargas. If you have an opportunity and the police have thrown teargas unto you, the right English word is “inhale”. “Consume” is wrong English in this context. Thank you. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. What I want to raise is that I went to the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and raised issues that concerned Gem Constituency. I was given an assurance by the then Minister that pragmatic steps would be taken, so that members of my constituency who are above 70 years are put in that bracket. To date, nothing has been done. When I reflected on it, I thought that probably that was a public relations exercise. I hope when the Minister comes, it will not be another public relations exercise like what ... view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. As we all know, we are in unprecedented times. I thank you for taking a pragmatic step and providing leadership for the National Assembly to ensure that most of us are able to get tested and that when we come to Parliament, we feel the comfort that most Members who are in went for the test. On the same breath, I encourage colleagues in Parliament that we should make it mandatory for all of us to be tested. I went for the test and did not see anything bad like Hon. Mbadi has mentioned. ... view