Martin Otieno Ogindo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I think what the Constitution envisaged is a situation where there will be certain members of society who are independent. At nomination level, your constituency is your political party, or lack of it. So, if we delete this, we will be denying members of a political party the right to exercise their mandate within the confines of their constituency. When we leave it open, then that person who is nominated by a combination of members of various political parties is not, indeed, an independent party. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to oppose. view
• 14 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Minister is laying Papers under Order No.8, yet Papers are supposed to be laid under Order No.4. Is he in order? view
• 14 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Minister is laying Papers under Order No.8, yet Papers are supposed to be laid under Order No.4. Is he in order? view
• 12 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Would it really be appropriate for me not to send my condolences given that some of the orphans that Mr. OJode has left behind are on my lap? I would beg for your indulgence. view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: First of all, let me congratulate the new Minister for Finance for his co-operative approach to his duties, particularly with the House. I want to wish him well. view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to start by saying that we are witnessing an ever-growing budget. This is as expected because Kenya is developing. But I want to point out that it is important that this House is kept abreast with the fundamentals that underpin the Budget. Recently, we passed here an amendment to the Central Bank Act requiring the Governor to be reporting the monetary policies and the underlying parameters to this House every three months. We expect the same to be done to this House on the fiscal parameters. view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: The second thing I want to say is that we have noticed the fast growing rate of the public debt. We were having an engagement with the Minister yesterday or the day before yesterday, where he indicated that the debt levels are still sustainable. Looking at the debt levels according to records from Treasury, our debt today stands at Kshs1.5 trillion against a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Kshs3.025 trillion. If you work this out in percentage terms, it means that our public debt today stands at 51 per cent of the GDP. view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is normally relied on, on setting the standards for our class of economy, we would have expected our debt levels to stand at around 42 per cent. This is a worrying trend because we all know that debt repayment takes precedence over any other expenditure and, thus, creates a lot of rigidity crowding out the public service delivery. view
• 7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing that I want to point out is that--- view