George Oner Ogalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, protect me so that I conclude. I oppose this Bill.o 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
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Leader of Majority Party for saving the Transition Authority. I also want to question him on how he managed to let such a draconian amendment reach the Committee of the whole House. It means he presents Bills that he does not scrutinize. I also want to take issues with the Clerk’s Office for refusing to bring the numerous amendments that we made to the Land Adjudication Act through this Bill because as we stand now, land adjudication cannot go on across the country because of designations ... view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I also want to take this opportunity to talk on the AFFA Act. They have created a monster which has been losing limbs and arms. I am happy today they lost pyrethrum 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
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: and I am hoping soon they will lose sugar so that we can structure how agriculture, livestock and fisheries are managed in this country. view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to debate the Mining Bill. As a Member of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, we have dealt with this Bill quite extensively. I want to raise a few points in regard to this Bill. One, on royalties and the sharing of royalties payable to the Government and the county governments, we will be proposing very agreeable sharing formula. I also want to take this opportunity to appeal to Members not to become very local in their treatment of the Mining Bill. I know hon. Members who come from areas where minerals ... view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: communities to be given more allocation from the royalties. I want to appeal to you, even if there is mineral deposit in your area that does not mean that there will be no mineral deposits in other areas. We cannot take all the money to that area because we will need to have infrastructure to move the minerals to the market and we will need security for the investors to come to those areas. So, we appeal to Members of Parliament who come from regions with minerals or other resources now, to approach debate on sharing of royalties with a ... view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think this is a Bill when finally signed into law will help improve the way mining has been taking place in this country. For those who have been keen in this House, there was a question asked sometime back about Sky Rock Company which exported gold. When we talked to the company in the Departmental Committee hearings, they specified that they were not keeping the details of where they got gold because the small-scale or traditional miners could not dare give them those details because they were engaging in an illegal activity.For the first time, the ... view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I support this Bill. I look forward to robust debate during the Committee stage. view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view