Joshua Ojode

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is a Member of the Government. I have heard him say that; "we will inform the Government." Who is the Government? He is a Member of the Government. Why can he not give the names of the suspects to police officers, so that they can be arrested? view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the first time I have heard that he has some names. If you look at the statistics which I was reading out, for example, in Baringo, 44 heads of cattle were stolen in June, 2008 alone. I compared notes with him and I told him just that. We are yet to recover the cattle. I would like to request the hon. Member, who is also a Member of the Government, that in the event he has some names of those people who are behind cattle rustling, he should give them to the police ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have done a lot of things as the Government. Some of the Government initiatives include deployment of Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) in various cattle rustling prone areas. We have also set up provincial and district peace committees. Before undertaking some of these initiatives, we agreed with hon. Members who come from the cattle rustling areas including Naivasha to encourage other peace initiatives such as using Non-Government Organisations and involving peace processes. We have cross-border meetings by Government officials and other leaders. For example, recently, there was a meeting in Mbale, Uganda, between our Government ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are also encouraging the drilling of boreholes and view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: 4290 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES January 21, 2009 view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: construction of water pans in Arid Semi Arid Lands areas. This will curb cattle rustling. When my Minister and I went to Chalbi and Wambi, we agreed with the leadership in those areas that we must sink boreholes. In fact, there are some areas where, as we speak, the Government has started drilling boreholes so that we do away with this conflict once and for all. So, the Government has really tried to bring this menace to an end once and for all. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: You will remember that at one time when I was issuing a Ministerial Statement with regard to cattle rustling, I said that it started as a sporting activity. It then graduated to a commercial activity. It went a notch higher and it is now a cartel. Just as my colleague says, he has the names of cattle rustlers, but he is keeping the list of those names in his pocket. We must arrest those behind cattle rustling because that is the only way we will end this menace once and for all. The issue of passing the buck to hon. ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the challenges that we face in our initiatives include tribalism and clannism. Some communities are socialised to believe that cattle belong to them and so they organise ways of getting them. For example, some communities from northern Kenya say that even the cattle which is kept by the Luos in Luoland belongs to them. Those are some of the things we should get rid of. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Perennial drought which leads to scarcity of water and pasture--- view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is a frivolous point order. view