John Olago Aluoch

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: There was something I wanted to say, but now it has been overtaken by events. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it has been a long journey. The House needs to understand exactly what we are about to do. The significance of what we have before us this afternoon cannot be downplayed. I am gratified that Rt. Hon. RailaAmolo Odinga is here. Those who might not understand, towards the tail end of the last Parliament, when we were voting on this Bill, he was here with us seated in the Speaker’s Gallery. Today, he is here with us. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: That signifies the importance of what we are going to deal with. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to address the Leader of the Majority Party through you. In making the application he has just made before you, and which you are going to rule on, it is important for him and those who advise him to know the consequences of what he asked you to do. It may result in the Bill dying. There is a difference between deferring and withdrawing. I want you to go back to the Standing Order properly so that if you rule on what he has asked, he does not ask the House to kill the Bill. I ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Lastly, when he made his application, he said that one does not need to have rocket science to know that we are less than the number required. I have been looking at the Chamber and I think we are 238 Members. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: While we support the Bill, and I personally do, let us do it in a proper way. My fear is that the Leader of the Majority Party may not have looked at the Standing Orders properly and he may end up killing the Bill. Thank you. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It pains me that a Member of this House standing in for his Chairman of the Committee can plead to the House that they do not know what to do. I am shocked. I am shocked because the rules are very clear. I expect if nobody else in that Committee knows what to do, the Chairman to know what to do. What Hon. Wamalwa has said is exactly what he should be doing. Hon. Speaker, I sit with you in the House Rules and Procedure Committee. When we were working on the latest revised Standing Orders, ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support this Bill by Hon. Njagagua. In so doing, I want to say that the level of legislative draftsmanship which went into this Bill is excellent. I have had Members talk about this Bill. So, I want to give the House the benefit of institutional memory that I have. I had the privilege of serving in the 10th Parliament after the promulgation of the Constitution 2010. When the county governments came into force our problem in the 10th Parliament was how to ensure that the pension schemes, the annuities and all ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: In 2012, we created the County Government Act. That was in the 10th Parliament. Again in that Act, we inserted Section 132 deliberately. It reads: “All members, officers and staff of the county governments shall subscribe to an existing pension scheme for officers and staff of a local government.” view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: These two provisions were meant to protect workers whose salaries were being deducted to go to pension schemes, but were not being remitted to pension schemes. At the end of it, staff The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view