James Onyango Oyoo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I am on the Floor. I have been given the Floor. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak to this important Bill. At the outset, I want to say that this Bill will add value to this country. It will advance the security aspect. We have been benevolent with serious insecurity and a lot of arms have been passing through our porous borders, thereby affecting the security and safety of our Kenyan citizenry. With proper warehouse receipting system, the security agents will be able to monitor and detect when there are illegal firearms or ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for finally giving me an opportunity to at least contribute to this important Bill although a lot of the areas I wanted to cover have been sufficiently covered by my colleagues. This is an opportune moment for this House to legislate and ensure that this Bill becomes law. The county governments are a creation of our new constitutional dispensation but the people came to terms with the low calibre of MCAs they have elected rather too late. Most of the MCAs thought that they were going to be councillors. It is now ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: the county assemblies perform duties similar to those of the National Parliament rather than have the Senate summoning governors even on flimsy issues that can be tackled by the MCAs to conclusion. That will be history once we empower MCAs. Parliament is being resistant or repulsive to court rulings on certain issues. I believe that of the three arms of the Government – the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary – the Judiciary has done better, especially with the polarization that is evident in this Parliament as a result of the divide between the Jubilee and the CORD coalitions and ... view
• 6 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I want to support this Motion and to say that I am not very happy about the changes. I have checked with the Leader of the Minority Party or the Chief Whip. I want to put it on record because he could be treating me to some advance public relations. I belong to only Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. When I made noise, I was given some auxiliary appointment to represent the interest of the party or CORD at Powers and Privileges Committee. It is an opportunity which you ... view
• 6 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: So, I would appeal some decorum to be used in removing or reshuffling Members and others to be also considered. I have reverted to where I used to belong, to only one committee. As much as Hon. Mwadeghu has promised that he will look into my matter and give me top placement in a departmental committee, I wanted it to be put on record because it could be advance public relations which I do not want to enjoy. Otherwise, I have a bone to chew with the Committee on Selection, and you will bear me right. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have listened here with a lot of interest and so many arguments have been advanced. This is a House of records and debate. I have been entertained by a lot of debate, but I want to reason on points. I oppose this list not because of this parochial and cheap propaganda people are advocating here. This House makes laws and the laws they make are ultimately contained in the Constitution. Constitutions must be safeguarded in all civilised democracies. One single thing which runs a country is the Constitution. The Constitution of ... view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Dangerous Bills come to the House which are normally moved by my good friend, the Leader of the Majority Party. He targets when many Members have gone to Committees and slips them in and then with the chorus of Noes and Ayes, he gets a faint sound of Ayes and they are passed. We later realise the NG-CDF and the Government bursary have been removed. This makes us suffer. I want Members to vote with their mind. Look at the debate and do not bring cheap names. We are in Africa and we know leadership in Africa is about a ... view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The Jubilee Government agreed that once they get power, they will divide it among themselves. They are doing it. They are walking the talk. So, there is nothing wrong with them. view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I support it. I want to remind the Government, through the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee that the essence of the Budget is to enable the Government to parade its priorities and factor funds that are meant to help it push those programmes to completion as per design. Our Budget faced a lot of inhibitions caused by lack of hastened transfer of the Exchequer by the National Treasury and misuse or misallocation of funds. view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Jubilee had very good programmes. One of them was the annuity programme floated to make Kenya mitigate its problems in infrastructure. Unfortunately, this appeared to be a high sounding nothing because it never saw the light of the day. Before the annuity programme came a cropper, there were roads that were programmed to start and had been given priority. I have a road as priority No.4 in the country. Since the annuity programme came a cropper and fizzled out, I have seen certain roads mushrooming dispensed by Government’s bigwigs. It will now be necessary for us to make ... view