James Onyango Oyoo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am rising under Standing Order No.95. Given the mood of the House and given that many Members have spoken to this Bill and there is no serious opposition to it from across the divide of the House--- view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, also given that the next Bill sponsored by Hon. Wanyonyi is still speaking on registration, I suggest that the Mover be called upon to reply. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support this amendment although it is more clerical than scientific. I want to support it in the interest of the engineering technologists. Presently, the Government has done very little to accord upcoming engineering technologists room to practise and exhibit their prowess. This new concept will give them an opportunity to showcase their abilities. view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to tell this House that while people look very concerned or want to purport to be very concerned about the sugar industry, I am one person who must support this Report. I want to say loud and clear that sugar business, sugar milling and sugar growing affect my constituency more than anybody else. My good friend, the Member for Mvita, who has just left, has already informed this House that the oldest sugar milling company in this country is Miwani. This is one of the many sugar companies in Muhoroni ... view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: who can direct the Director of Criminal Investigation (CID) that there is illicit import coming, so he can close his eyes and let his officers allow that to happen. I have said this in interviews by television networks and I am waiting for somebody to challenge me. Sugar is not a piece of dress that you can go to Europe and buy for your friend. The sugar glut that is messing up the sugar industry in this country is brought in big containers. They come through Kilindini Port. Some come through our porous border posts where we have policemen, Kenya ... view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: it is farmers’ money which is kept, and which with or without the President or the Deputy President going to Nzoia or coming to Chemelil, they should allow it to circulate through a well arranged Government programme. We want this to stop. We also want the Government to take the plight of sugarcane farmers very seriously. Milk producers, coffee and tea farmers have already benefited immensely from the Government. The losses which were occasioned by bad weather or other economic adversities are known to have been written-off. However, to date we are yet to hear, read or see the Government ... view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Farmers in my constituency who are heavily indebted by loans occasioned by bad weather and influx of sugar that is brought into the country by sugar barons are yet to benefit from Government programme of writing off loans. We want the Government to be very serious. I was not in Parliament when the Privatisation Bill went through this House. I realised that--- view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me--- view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This thing is very sentimental to me. I am saying that there is no way we can allow few people--- Today, we know that the people who are playing around with the sugar industry are very few. When I came here I found a programme where Muhoroni and Chemilil sugar companies were being merged on account that Muhoroni does not have enough acreage of land. During Moi’s regime, land that was taken away from indigenous people for purposes of running Muhoroni Sugar Company was alienated and allocated to politically-correct people and we ... view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very valuable Bill. The Bill has come at a very good time. It is long overdue. There is a saying that if God likes you, there are two things he must help you skip, namely, bad health and anything that draws you near to something that entails that you get legal attention. This is because legal services have become too costly. This step should have been taken long time ago to remedy the situation of the downtrodden, who are very many in this country. Unlike ... view