James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: I am happy that the Committee has made comments on most of these issues. However, in the spirit of being patriotic, they are telling us to try and live with it. They did a good job, but we are not adopting the report for cosmetic reasons. Having said all that, what are we doing as a Senate or a legislature to make sure we are not caught up in circumstances because we are going down and down? view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: In further discussion of this report, I would like to say the following. If you generally look at what is happening in Kenya, and especially in Nairobi City comparatively, you would be impressed. If you are looking for brick and mortar, the Expressway is a big project that can make a big difference. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: We now have the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), even if it is halfway because it should have gone up to the border of Kenya and Uganda. It is about to get to the middle, which is Nakuru. That is something. When you go to Lamu, a lot of money is being used to construct a modern port. Head of States have been to Lamu recently because of what is happening in Ethiopia. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia was here for a very good reason because the northern part‘s access to the Red Sea is compromised by what is happening in ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Look at the compensation being paid for land for building infrastructure, including the SGR. The amount of money people were being paid on compensation, I think even real estate in Heaven, cannot be that expensive. There is no part of the world you would buy pieces of land at the rate at which they are being bought here. So, it makes life very difficult. It makes borrowing in the end very expensive because you are building a structure that you will never make money out of. Finally, there is the question of waste. Kenyans like waste when you translate it ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: to be a very innovative kind of country. I should not even be carrying a piece of paper like this because of the promises you made. This book should not be here because of the promises that you made. The starting point is that our governance has gone south. So long as it is going south, nothing can be repaired adequately in time for us to have a proper legacy for this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, last week on the Floor of this House, I said that one of the richest countries and still is, is the Democratic Republic ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: documents that are tabled in Parliament are exclusively a product of the Executive. Therefore, you have got to work round it to make sense out of it. The parameters that have been set make it very difficult for Parliament to make an impact on that process. I think that is a topic for another day. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the bottom line of all these things that we are doing, and now that our responsibility is to the counties, I can see my County of Siaya, compared to the last financial year, will get nearly Kshs1.5 billion on top ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: and-half years, including the Speaker, the Deputy President, the Senator for Mandera and all the elements within Jubilee. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Let me give you a little advice of wisdom, taking over Government is not easy. We have had this experience for a long time. Nonetheless, as you try to do it, do not forget your people. There are elements in Jubilee who are forgetting the people. I liked what Mr. Atwoli said yesterday, that if there was somebody who would have ruled this country by the storm he created, it was Hon. Matiba. The crowds can be misleading. Sen. Linturi, there was one time a powerful and popular mayor of Kampala went to New York, arrested, charged and served a ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: In Kenya, we are getting to a situation where being a thief becomes a matter of value. I have never seen a situation where people parade wealth the way we are doing in this country. Where politicians are, it is just exuberance. You will shock the world the way we are behaving. How do we get this money to do the kind of things we are doing? Read the BPS and see we are broke. People in the broke Government can spend Kshs30 million a day. Even if you go to Bill Gates, he will not give you that kind ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I was elected to Parliament for the first time, I had no car, bicycle, wheelbarrow, wife or house, but I defeated a sitting Cabinet Minister by walking and talking to the people. In Kenya today, you cannot do that. We are past that kind of situation and we are encouraging it. Yule Mtanzania alisema, tumechukuaakili zetu tumeweka kwa mfuko na akili ndogo inatawala akili kubwa. This is what is happening in this country. If we can shout, but the country will go down as we celebrate our poverty and be in the league of nations ... view