George Oner Ogalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: 103 of the County Government Act, 2012. The Bill is responsive to the physical planning as per Article 191(3) of the Constitution and Section 20(1)(i) of the Urban Areas and Cities Act. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: There are concerns over the process of approving development plans at the county level. There are people who feel that the county assemblies should be approving plans. They hinge that debate on Article 185(4) of the Constitution. If at the national level the National Assembly does not approve physical development plans by national Government, why would it be necessary for the county assemblies at the county to approve physical development plans at the county level? In my opinion, which I think should be considered opinion, there is separation of powers. The function of approving development plans should be an Executive ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: I also want to speak to the function under Schedule Four of the Constitution being a devolved one. I would like to urge Members to consider this. If counties are going to do physical planning, who is going to develop a policy upon which that physical planning is going to take place? After the counties have prepared their plans, who is going to integrate those county plans to create a national plan? Even though surveying and planning is devolved under Schedule Four of the Constitution, it is a considered opinion that a function of the national level should be retained ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The way the Bill has proposed the entities and institutions that are supposed to carry out planning gives the NLC an organ that they can monitor and oversee and get reports from. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I would like to invite Members to go through this Bill and not to be scared or imagine that there is anybody who is doing a very bad thing to Kenyans by proposing this Bill. It is a reasonable Bill, and as a member of the Departmental Committee on Lands we are going through it clause by clause. We are also inviting Members to pay close attention. If you feel there are things that we need to amend in this Bill before we pass it, propose them so that we can pass a good Bill for Kenyans. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this very good Bill. This Bill is going to provide a mechanism through which individual Kenyan citizens and corporates are going to relate with KRA. It is going to streamline channels of communications. It is going to provide for fair administrative action on the part of KRA, so that taxpayers have a fair way of handling the decisions that are made by KRA. Citizenship is a membership of a country to get the benefits and acquire responsibilities and obligations. Taxation is one of the obligations ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do not know why--- view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker; I do not see the reason or the need requiring me to substantiate the obvious. Henry Rotich, the CS National Treasury, came to Bunge and gave a list of Ministries that received the money and up to now, there is no direct infrastructural project he has mentioned that has been funded by the EURO Bond. There is no need for me to substantiate. This is a Report. view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am substantiating. I have just said here that the CS for the National Treasury has been to the House--- view