George Washinton Mallan Omondi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also want to add my voice and support this Motion for Adjournment of the House. The Adjournment Motion could not have come at a better time. This is because what happened on the Floor of this House--- We saw Kenyans and elected leaders coming together and thinking about Kenya. I want to encourage my colleagues that we move ahead when we are in recess to further approach things in the same way. We need to further our togetherness, put whatever it is that divides us aside and put in place whatever puts us together. Hon. ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would want my colleagues to use the recess to educate wananchi. I hope you all know that the most talked about elected leaders in this country are the Members of Parliament. People see all sorts of faults with us; they think that we are just noise makers. This happens because we have not explained to them what we are doing in this House. We have not explained to them what they should expect from the county government. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I appeal to my colleagues that we use the recess to talk to our people, wananch,i and tell them what is expected of the Central Government and the County government. This is because a lot of blame is being put on us; this is because many of our voters do not know what the county government is supposed to do. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, let us not get worried too much about frustration of devolution. To me, nobody can take away devolution from where it has reached. Devolution is like a bone which has been given to a dog; there is no way you can pull it back. It will be frustrated and pushed to one side or the other but it can never be taken back. What we need to do, as earlier speakers have said, is to correct what is bad. This can be done by explaining to wananchi what is really involved in the county government. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would appeal to my colleagues that at some stage maybe we should take devolution a little bit further, and have it go down to sub- counties. The problem we have is that leaving it at the county level is creating some small governments which think that they are very independent from the central Government. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also stand to talk on this Report as amended. I support it as amended. This Report allows us to approach this particular sector being devolved in a more sober manner. So far, we have been excited and a lot of mistakes have been done. Hon. Speaker, talking from my experience of what I have seen happening in Siaya District Hospital, this Report is just but a tip of the iceberg of what is going on. The Report talks about doctors resigning en masse and going elsewhere. If this Committee had decided to go county after ... view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: There are some health centres which were put up through CDF. Now, because money has been devolved, the county governments want to construct similar hospitals. Really, why are they constructing other health centres? They want to use the money. If I may digress a little bit, even with regard to the education which is devolved, we give bursaries to children in the local areas and yet, the ward representatives also want to give the bursaries. If you tell them to look at our lists so that we do not duplicate, they do not want to listen. It is, therefore, high ... view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute on the Appropriation Bill. Contrary to what some people have been thinking, this Budget was a real working of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Treasury. I can stress that the Committee worked as a link between the National Assembly and the National Treasury. So, there was nothing that was rubberstamped in this Budget. Figures were brought and we looked at them. view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Having said that, I am very happy that this Budget has identified key pillars of development in our economy and they have been financed appropriately. view