Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1 to 10 of 1622.

• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. I just want to comment on the issue raised by Sen. Onyonka. This issue of our people disappearing in foreign lands is caused by various factors. It starts from home through The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: some of the recruiting agents. I do not know whether due diligence is done on them, how they are selected, or it is the regulations that are there. view
• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: The Standing Committee on Labour and Social Protection needs to investigate thoroughly and find out if the laws regulating some of these agencies are weak. If so, then let us find ways of strengthening them. If it is the enforcement that is bringing problems, let us find ways of strengthening the enforcement and also follow up with the Government agencies who are supposed to take care of enforcement. view
• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also due diligence on those who are going to employ these people. Some of them are crooks. We are aware that internationally, there are companies and people who are taking people to the slaughter for the harvest of human organs. This happens. How can it be that somebody has disappeared? How can a Kenyan just disappear without being located in a foreign land yet we have embassies with all the people and some are in charge of intelligence and labour? view
• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before our people are allowed to go and seek employment in those foreign lands, the embassies should do some due diligence on their destinations. It should also be mandatory that Kenyans working abroad are all registered with our embassies. The embassies should have records of each and every Kenyan working in those countries. view
• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I went to Qatar and the embassy there only has records of a few Kenyans. They are pleading with Kenyans to register with them because they do not know them. These issues only come up when somebody has gotten into trouble, or has been involved in some incidences, then the embassy is now asked to get involved. Kenyans should be aware that when they go to foreign lands, they are exposed because those are not our people. view
• 3 Dec 2024 in Senate: I would like the Committee to look at these issues wholesomely. It has been with us year-in, year-out. Kenyans continue to disappear, to be exploited or killed. Some of them even live in very pathetic conditions. When they go there, they are robbed of their telephone and documents. This is a very serious situation. We must deal with it once and for all. The Committee should investigate it thoroughly. This is the only issue I had to raise. I thank you. view
• 14 Nov 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to inform my sister that this spirit of harambee started just when our Independence was at the corner. There was an old man in Kisumu called Mulu Harambee and he used to call harambee for people to come and pull a rope together. There is a book written by Owino Obundo about the harambee spirit. So, Mzee Kenyatta picked it after he was released from detention and he started executing the spirit of harambee - that we pulled together to push out the colonial yoke from our country. So, that is when it started, ... view
• 14 Nov 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill not for anything else. The spirit of harambee was noble. The idea of harambee came up as a result of a long struggle of our people to gain Independence. During those days, the colonial authorities tried as much as possible to divide our people and segment them into regions and tribes, so that they could continue exploiting them. Some people foresaw this and thought of a spirit that could unite our people in the struggle for Independence. There was a clarion call. It was started by an old man who ... view
• 14 Nov 2024 in Senate: At Independence, people spoke of three enemies of the people of Kenya. They were poverty, illiteracy and disease. The Independent Government endeavoured to eliminate these enemies in the spirit of harambee because poverty levels in our country were very high. Over the period, more than 60 or 70 years now, we have not been able to deal with these enemies of our people effectively. Poverty, disease, and illiteracy still persist because we still have problems even in our education sector. That is the reason people are passionate about harambees. We are defending harambees because successive governments have been unable to ... view