George Oner Ogalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: As I said, at the outset, the Constitution and our Standing Orders require that after we adopt this Report and adopt the amendments, the ones we reject will go for mediation. When you look at these clauses which are rejected, there should be no serious contention and we expect a speedy resolution by the Mediation Committee and a Report of the Committee to be brought to the House as soon as possible. This is so that the water sector can get this progressive law to begin to regulate water resources on one hand and water services on the other. view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I was saying yesterday, this House now has an opportunity to deliberate on how to ensure that the 2017 elections happen in a manner that all Kenyans will be glad with the results and will accept them. We have seen in the previous elections that the process of determining the votes in each and every polling station, transmitting them from the polling station to the constituency tallying centre, the county tallying centre and national tallying centre has always been weak to the extent that unscrupulous people The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: can easily manipulate and ensure that these results change from stage to stage. This House must legislate this time round to ensure that such things are impossible to do. In a country where money can be saved on the phones, how can results fail to have integrity when being transmitted from one station to the next? This House must not fail Kenyans, it must legislate properly. We must look at the election law in totality. We will not be restricted to those sections of the law which have been proposed for amendment in this amendment Bill. If this House can ... view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The amendment proposed under Clause 15 is misplaced. If you look at the original Act, you will find that Section 26 deals with a certificate of title and not a challenge to entries in the register. Therefore, it should be deleted. Thank you. view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: I support, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to congratulate the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for bringing this Bill to this House because it is going to give us the opportunity to cleanse the elections process in Kenya and to ensure we give Kenyans an opportunity to participate in free and fair elections to ensure that the loopholes we saw in the last elections do not reoccur. This Bill allows us to look at the entire election laws not only those elections that have been targeted for amendments by this Bill. view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: For free and fair elections, there must be determination of registration of voters. The first step of elections is that each and every person who should participate in that election is given ample and a fair chance to participate in that elections by registering. Elections flaws in this country have been mostly on determining how many people participated during the voting day. The voter turn-out during the voting day has caused contentions in elections in this country. This House now has an opportunity, using this law, to deal with this matter conclusively and The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: extensively to ensure that in 2017 no elections will be tampered with in-between the polling station and the tallying centre. view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: A returning officer for an election should be the returning officer for all elections. We should not have one person sitting in Nairobi to be the returning officer for the presidential elections yet those elections are carried out in polling stations and declared in constituencies by returning officers. This Bill should now allow the National Assembly to prescribe in detail the processes of determining elections, how the votes are counted, how the results are transmitted and how we can ensure that the integrity of those results are not interfered with in-between that process. view