George Oner Ogalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Creating land value index and compulsory acquisition can be done by county governments or by national Government. So, exclusively giving the job to national Government would be disenfranchising the county government. This amendment should be carried through to ensure that the stakeholders necessary for compulsory acquisition are all included. Thank you. I support. view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Part of the reason for this amendment is to clarify that alternative land can be a measure of compensation. That if your land is compulsorily acquired, you can be given land in lieu of the land you had before. This amendment should be carried to give proper effect to that spirit. view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The cost of public projects can escalate terribly if the cost of acquisition of land is not controlled. A person being part of this commission, knowing that a project is going to take place in a certain place and releasing that information so that people purchase land for speculation and therefore defeat the proper process of value for money in acquisition of land commits a criminal offence. It is an offence that must be discouraged and the penalties proposed by this amendment now are in tandem with national objectives of delivering projects at cost ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to also pronounce myself on this. I want to support the Senate Bill. The people reserve their right to determine how the structure of their government is implemented in their county. The people of Taita Taveta and Kirinyaga have decided on new headquarters of their counties. I think the National Assembly needs to support the public participation that decided on these headquarters. I only hope that in deciding where to locate the headquarters, the people and the Senate considered the factors that make development of such headquarters absorb a ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: infrastructure in those headquarters will be reasonable and the public resources that will be used for that purpose will not go to waste. As the National Assembly, we have to differ with the Senate on matters of devolution. It is their role to oversee funds that go to the county governments. Once they have been validated through the process of public participation by residence of those counties, it is only fair and orderly that we agree. I hope they validated the public participation that took place in those two counties, and in other counties they will be discussing in future. ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to state that I sit in the Committee and I took part in the inquiry and the drafting of this report. I stand with the recommendations of this Report. I want to confirm to this House that every possible opportunity was accorded to everybody who had an issue to bring to the Committee. Anybody who wanted to be heard had an opportunity to be heard. Those who refused to come cannot blame the Committee for arriving at these recommendations because they are properly backed by the observations that you find in this ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: I would like to draw the attention of the House to certain points. One, before the Departmental Committee on Lands decided to get involved in this matter, the National Land Commission (NLC) had addressed itself to it. Within the Commission, various commissioners are assigned various counties. Kilifi County is assigned to the Vice-Chair of the Commission. We know this because we oversee them and they make presentations of this nature to us. The Vice-Chair, in her capacity as the one in charge of that county, had started carrying out investigations. After a short period of time during that investigation, the ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: This was against the preliminary findings of the Vice-Chairperson in her investigations. So, as a Committee, we thought it was wise as the oversight body for that Commission to look into this matter a little deeper. In carrying out our investigation, the Ministry of Lands officials appeared before us, and you can see that on Page 17, paragraph 2.4.1(3). The grant to Mombasa Cement was derived from an L.R. number which did not have an official grant of Government meaning that the--- view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Page 17, bullet 2.4.1(3). view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view