Janet Ongera

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Is the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party in order to speak about another Hon. Member who is not in this House in such a manner? In fact, I want him to further clarify. He said that his party leader said the other day that newspapers are used for wrapping meat. Can he clarify who his party leader is? view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Let me congratulate Hon. Gimose for bringing this matter for us to discuss, a matter that is extremely weighty and sad. Two Members of this House have been arrested arbitrarily. I say arbitrarily because these Members of Parliament have been arrested like they were in a war zone. Forty police officers went to arrest Hon. Arama, arresting him on flimsy issues on a matter that was a civil case. I have documents here which clearly indicate that this matter had been dealt with and concluded. It is very sad ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this matter. First of all, this is a very weighty matter and I want to thank Hon. Junet for bringing it up. A time has come where we need to pronounce ourselves in this Parliament. This is a matter that weighs on the doctrine of separation of powers and we must stand and protect our turf. The Judiciary is interfering with our internal arrangements, how we deal with one another here in Parliament, our internal processes and procedures in committees. This means that the Judiciary has lost track. ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we urge you and it behooves upon you as the number three man in this country to make another pronouncement. It does not matter how many pronouncements you make, but I think it is important for the Judiciary to respect our turf. I thank Hon. Junet for bringing this up and I support him. Thank you. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity so that I may also contribute to this Bill. I rise to support this Bill having been a former Senator and having been among the few Members in this House who have had the privilege of sitting in both Houses - the Senate and the National Assembly. This is a very important Bill. The County Allocation of Revenue Bill as we all know is a Bill that allows the counties to spend the revenues that we are allocating them. There are many good things that the counties have done. ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: has opened up a 24-hour economy for the women in the rural areas who would never have been able to have the mulika mwizi lighting system. Some of these stories are good. There are good stories of road network which we never had. Most of the time we had cattle tracks where cattle and goats used to pass. Today, these are roads. These are good stories and some of these monies are going to do some of these activities. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: However, there are stories that are very sad. They include of devolving corruption to the counties. These are stories that as leaders of this country, we must abhor. We must condemn this. We know of incidences where county officials have eaten up all the revenues and resources that have been collected have been gobbled up. It is a sad story when you hear that a finance officer who is earning maybe less than Kshs100,000 is found with Kshs66 million in his house. This is a shameful incident. We need to condemn corruption which has been devolved in the counties. We ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: There are stories of raising of revenues in the counties. We want to see an accountable system. How is the revenue raised in the counties? If these revenues were properly raised, the national Government would not have to give a lot of money to the counties. Counties can be self-sufficient if they use the revenues that they are raising right. That is not to say that it should be a burden to the taxpayers. The ordinary mwananchi should not be burdened by tax. I have seen counties putting a tax for chicken. These are sad stories. While I support what ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: There are counties like Turkana which now has oil. Turkana can actually supply water to the whole of Kenya for the next 100 years if this is properly done. These are counties that we should review and give that money to another county so that we have equitable distribution of resources. With those few points, I beg to support. view
• 12 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. That is precisely the point I wanted to ask the Hon. Chairman of BAC. If you are saying that the money was an additional amount, it means there was a reason they added the money for police housing. As you know, police housing in this country is in a deplorable state. We should build better houses for them. I suspect the additional amount is because we needed more money to make them feel secure and safe in their homes. view