George Oner Ogalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Nobody should come to this House and say that there is a plan to curtail the NLC. We have decided to remove the County Land Management Boards. It just does not work. We expect NLC to appoint officers at the county level, their own secretary and a secretariat, to work under instructions from NLC and not curtailed by county assemblies and Governors. These amendments will streamline the functions of NLC. I want to assure the House that if there is anything in this Bill that would have attempted by even an inch to curtail the constitutional powers granted under Article ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: This Bill also gives opportunity to deal with the constitutional requirement that this House enacts law on evictions. We have introduced sections in this Bill to cover that and I have held several discussions with all the people that I have mentioned. We have elaborately proposed a way of dealing with the requirement to prescribe maximum and minimum land holdings. That provision has taken our Committee over four retreats to come up with an agreement. We called the NLC, the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development and the Cabinet Secretary one more time for proper understanding of prescribing minimum ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: What we have now proposed to this House is the best compromise that could be obtained within that constitutional provision. There is the issue of historical injustices. We have also taken time and what is in the Bill is less than a quarter of what we proposed. There are clear provisions proposed in our amendments that will attempt, at best, to deal with the issues of historical land injustices. They include most of the proposals by the NLC who had done a very extensive study and consultations to come up with the Bill. Most of it was not included in ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I want to end by saying that when we come to the Committee of the whole House, I would like to invite as many Members as possible to participate. These amendments will, in my opinion, streamline the practice and administration of the land sector in this country. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Having looked at this Bill, I would like to warn, moving forward, that Kenya Power (KP) should, today, start preparing to face what Telkom Kenya faced when the communication sector was liberalized. For the first time, we are bringing democracy to electrical energy. This Bill creates an opportunity for a home in a rural place in Homa Bay to be supplied by power generated in Mombasa without the involvement of Kenya Electrical Generating Company (KenGen), KP, Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) or Rural Electrification Authority (REA). This is very important because consumers of electrical energy ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Having looked at this Bill, I would like to warn, moving forward, that Kenya Power (KP) should, today, start preparing to face what Telkom Kenya faced when the communication sector was liberalized. For the first time, we are bringing democracy to electrical energy. This Bill creates an opportunity for a home in a rural place in Homa Bay to be supplied by power generated in Mombasa without the involvement of Kenya Electrical Generating Company (KenGen), KP, Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) or Rural Electrification Authority (REA). This is very important because consumers of electrical energy ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Our economy has suffered a lot from sabotage and bottle necks in accessing electricity in terms of cost of power and the erratic manner in which power is supplied. Businesses are moving out of our country to where power is cheaper and is easier to connect for purposes of carrying out their business. This law, when passed, will enable us to finally have private players who are profit and efficiency oriented to be in the sector of supplying consumers with power in this country. By intent of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, I had imagined ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: counties as the Constitution prescribes under the Fourth Schedule. Reticulation of power is a county government function. If this were to happen, then the rate of electrification of our counties would multiply 47 times instead of relying on one entity with its bureaucratic systems to do this job. If you look at what the REA has done in bringing power lines to rural communities and installing transformers, you will find that it is discouraging to engage the very reluctant KP to charge exorbitant fees to connect electricity. Why would KP, an entity that has found a transformer next to my ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Our economy has suffered a lot from sabotage and bottle necks in accessing electricity in terms of cost of power and the erratic manner in which power is supplied. Businesses are moving out of our country to where power is cheaper and is easier to connect for purposes of carrying out their business. This law, when passed, will enable us to finally have private players who are profit and efficiency oriented to be in the sector of supplying consumers with power in this country. By intent of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, I had imagined ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: counties as the Constitution prescribes under the Fourth Schedule. Reticulation of power is a county government function. If this were to happen, then the rate of electrification of our counties would multiply 47 times instead of relying on one entity with its bureaucratic systems to do this job. If you look at what the REA has done in bringing power lines to rural communities and installing transformers, you will find that it is discouraging to engage the very reluctant KP to charge exorbitant fees to connect electricity. Why would KP, an entity that has found a transformer next to my ... view