George Oner Ogalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I rise to support the Motion as amended. Hon. Nyokabi will get another chance when we start debating another Motion. I note the work that has been done by The Budget and Appropriations Committee. From the outset, I want to start with the process the National Assembly is going though in handling the Budget. Article 221 of the Constitution is very clear that the National Treasury will submit Estimates to this House and this House will consider those Estimates through The Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committees. The Constitution says “the Estimates.” The Constitution does not say Estimates ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Having said that, I would like to thank the The Budget and Appropriations Committee for the job they have done, especially on the amendments which Members have now agreed to. However, taking a whole Kshs1.3 billion from the Vote of one arm of Government out of a possible Kshs16 billion is not fair. view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: As Hon. Amina said, I can also help The Budget and Appropriations Committee by pointing out where they can get money from. For example, the National Treasury is given Kshs49 billion for development. In the Financial Year 2011/2012 they were given Kshs42 billion, in the 2012/2013 Financial Year they were given Kshs43 billion and now they have been given Kshs49 billion. In those two financial years, they only spent 70 per cent. Why do we keep giving them this money when they can only spend 70 per cent and there are sectors The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: looking for as small as Kshs1 billion? Why should we look for the Kshs1.2 billion from the Judiciary, which is less than 2 per cent of the Development allocation to the Treasury when we can easily get it from the Treasury? view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: The Treasury are the people in charge of implementation of the Budget. They know they can propose a Supplementary Budget any time while the Judiciary cannot. So, why hurt the Judiciary when we can get the money very easily from the National Treasury? I honestly oppose that. If we want Kenyans to access justice, we must enable the courts to operate to offer that justice. We cannot have justice when the courts are underfunded. It cannot work that way. This money should come from traditional sources of Government allocations like the National Treasury or the State Department for Planning and ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I am being reminded by my friend here that even Kenya Power Company has been given money from the Exchequer. They buy power from the people and sell it very expensively to consumers. Why do you still allocate them money? You allocate them money to do what? This is a company that has a balance sheet to run and it can programme itself. I have looked at the Budget and I am wondering from my point of view as a Member of Parliament for Rangwe ---I can see very big development budgets indicated here. The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Most importantly, in this day and age, why can’t we work smart as a country? There are very many investors who can invest in capital projects. We are spending Kshs146 billion which is 10 per cent of our Budget on rail transport. In this day and age, can these things not be done under Private Public Partnership (PPP)? Can we not release more of this money for purposes of social services, healthcare and education, hiring of teachers and the police? These are things which we cannot do under the PPP. Even transport? Surely! If the Standard Gauge Railway will cost ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I am wondering whether the Kshs104 billion also allocated to roads as Development Budget has factored in the annuity programme that we have been hearing. Will we do them with our resources the way it has been budgeted here? Those are some of the things we need to relook at. Some of us are seeing these proposals here and so, we do not have the capacity to look at the whole Budget. We only look at the summaries. I can see my time is up. With those few remarks, I support. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The proposed amendment is in order. Anybody doing business with the Government is interested in the money they will be paid. So, putting the price as the underlying term is better than the vague term “offer”. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: 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