George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this matter is so serious that it requires a bit of time for us, as hon. Members, to speak to. The Constitution requires us, as Members of Parliament, to deliberate on and, of course, resolve issues of concern to our people. If I may tell my colleagues what necessitates our interventions by way of what I call “fundraisers”, the best school in my constituency is Homa Bay High School. In the last one month, three dormitories were burnt down. In fact, Form Two and Form Three students have been away. They have not even sat for their end-year ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I thank you for standing firm with the House on this matter. The business of establishing committees for this House, giving names to those committees, designating the functions of those committees and deciding how many of the Members of this House sit in such committees is the business of this House. It is not the business of any Government operative. It is not the business of the Attorney General or the CIC. Indeed, even if we decided to establish a committee and designated it a committee of goats and sheep, it is all constitutional, so long ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: What a better platform to showcase what the Government is doing than before the leadership of the country; the Assembly of the nation here seated. So, it surprises when there are confusing thoughts around this. The General Oversight Committee is a committee to deal with those matters which, in my view, are cross- cutting. In the education sector, for instance, we have this issue relating to the teacher-student ratio and of course, the shortage of teachers across the country. How beautiful would it be for the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education to come to this House and together with ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: The health sector, a critical life supporting sector is in crisis across the country. In fact, we are mulling over whether we need referral facilities in each county or in each constituency or what should we be doing. In asking specific issues around Homa Bay, if 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
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: it is that cross-cutting what better forum for the Cabinet Secretary of Health, to meet the elected representatives of the people here seated and just go over it? We had the issue of security disturbing and concerning virtually all sections of this country a short while ago. You will remember the difficulties we had when a question was raised on the security situation in a section of this country, but of course, the Chair of the Committee could only say: “I am going back to the Cabinet Secretary and I will respond next time”. In the long run, the sensitivity ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: ought to be targeted at somebody like Mr. Charles Nyachae. We need to begin interrogating the sources of that money. We need to focus on the functions that these commissions perform. We pushed the constitutional timelines for legislating constitutional Bills by nine months, a short while before we went on recess. Even after that happened, Mr. Charles Nyachae and CIC are busy talking about everything as if they are the oracles of law in this country. As hon. Sakaja said, anybody who is a well meaning Kenyan can read the Constitution and understand it. Let me remind those who care ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: so that the people outside there can know the good things you are doing. I thank you very much hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker: Well spoken. Hon. (Ms) Kanyua view
• 10 Sep 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. You have heard hon. Maj-Gen Nkaissery saying the Luo Community should apologize for the unfortunate incident, which the President found himself in. Is the hon. Member right to claim the Luo should be apologizing when we know the composition of Migori county? In fact, this is the county that has the manifestation of the entire Kenya. It has the Kurias, the Luhyas, the Somalis; everybody is there. In fact, the Member of Parliament for the area is a Somali. view
• 10 Sep 2014 in National Assembly: He should apologize to the Luo Community for referring to Migori, which has the face county, as a luo area. view