Martin Otieno Ogindo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. With due respect to my friend, Mr. Waititu, is he in order, in terms of relevance, to bring the debate about Embakasi when he is supporting amendments in Subukia? view
• 28 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise on a point of order to seek your guidance particularly in relation to the ruling that you have just made on the tabling of the paper. I am asking this in relation to procedure; ordinarily papers are laid under Order No.4. Would it be procedural to ask for the tabling of this at this particular point in time? view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. I want to start immediately with the County Executive. What captured my attention as I was going through this Bill is the oath of office for the county governor. Looking at it, you will find that he is one of the officers of the county who is not committing himself to the Constitution. I want to look at that together with the provision as spelt out in Article 31(2)(b) that the governor shall perform the state functions within the county as the president may determine. When you combine these ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: The second thing is on the name County Executive committee. We have been discussing this silently with Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona, but I do not want to go her direction. My direction with it is that the County Executive committee should be renamed the County Executive branch. The whole idea is to bring a paradigm shift in the way things are done at the county level. We have been used to committees at the local authorities’ level and people do not usually take them seriously. So in recognizing the fact that at county level we have a full Government with its three ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: I can see that he is referring me to the Constitution. So, I will apply much more thought to it at the Committee Stage. view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing is that we are passing this Bill in pursuit of the constitutional provisions as contained in Chapter 11. These objects are very dear to the people of Kenya. It is through these Bills that we can ensure these objects and their realizations. We have been hearing time and again that the Office of the President has not shown enough goodwill for the true realization of devolved government in as far as reorganizing the Provincial Administration is concerned. My take on this is that since the President’s oath of office is to serve ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we move on, I am aware that there is The Transition to Devolved Governments Bill. It is important that we take cognizance of the fact that we look very ill prepared for the transition. Most of the counties are still wondering where the Governor will be sworn in. I think steps need to be taken to establish the seats of powers in the respective County Governments. We need to move with speed, so that we have a place where the County Governments’ functions are being carried out from. view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must guard against disrupting service delivery. We have passed here the Cities, Municipals and Urban Cities Bill. Only Nairobi, Mombasa and, I think, Kisumu, have met the threshold. The service delivery in big towns like Nakuru, Homa Bay and Kakamega run a risk of service disruption, particularly at the transition, when I expect the repeal of Cap.265; living nobody with the responsibility to collect garbage and render the services that the local authorities were doing. I think it is important that serious thought is put into that, so that in the transition provisions of ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we seriously need to look at the capacities of the County Governments to raise their own revenues. I can see from the Constitution that the County Governments are allowed to levy property rates and entertainment tax. By legislation they are also allowed to impose other taxes. I think it is important that this provision for raising revenue is put in place well in advance, so that County Governments have a sound financial base from where they can take off. I think we have areas like the agricultural and hotel accommodation cess, which need to be ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we go into the County Governments, what we are pursuing is to see to it that each and every county gets adequate finances to enable it carry out its own functions. At this point, a lot of goodwill is required from the Ministry of Finance. Everytime you speak with the Ministry of Finance, you get the answer “we do not have money for that.” The money that we have in this country belongs to the people of Kenya and must be used to the best benefit of every Kenyan in this country. view