Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to welcome Maranda High School to this august House. For the information of the House, this is my home school, where I began my education in Standard One, studying under the shade of trees. This is also the school where my father was educated, the same school where my brother, Hon. Raila Odinga, attended and indeed the school that all of us in my family hold dear. I am an alumnus of Maranda High School. It is remarkable that despite being a small village school, it once rose to become ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. I want to make a short comment on the Statement sought by the Senator for Kisumu County. I am a resident of Kisumu City and I know the problem is extremely serious, not just in the city but also across the board. That county is littered with factories. There is a cement factory and three sugar factories which are big polluters. People do not have access to clean water either because they are not connected or cannot afford the one supplied by the municipality. They use water from the rivers which is ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. This is a very important debate because this is one of our fundamental functions as a Senate and as Parliament to oversight the Executive and to oversight, generally, the expenditure of public funds. In Uganda, they take it so seriously such that in the Public Accounts Committee that I attended, there is a policeman from the CID sitting together with parliamentarians. If a case has been presented and well-proved, they now do the, I mean, their function of further investigations with a view to concluding those issues legally in courts. Here, ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: 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
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also expect them to do their proper function of primary oversight in their counties, which we are also informed by the Chairperson of the CPAC that they do not do. They leave almost everything to the Senate and the National Assembly to do the oversight functions, which is primarily theirs. I also want to emphasize the need for the county assemblies to have autonomy. This is because without autonomy, the counties are dependent on the mercy of the executive. Therefore, effective oversight of the executive becomes an issue. It becomes difficult for them to oversight ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I conclude by just stressing the importance of having the autonomy of the county assemblies and stress that they should continue to do their primary oversight. It will make our work here much easier if they do proper oversight on their own. I thank you. view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute to this very important subject of debt management in our country. I must from the outset admit that there is no country which does not have debt. All countries, including the richest ones, borrow money. However, it is not a question of borrowing; it is the question of management; managing the funds that you borrow. Most of the countries in our continent of Africa were classified by the developed world as Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) of the world. Kenya used to belong to that classification. We were Highly Indebted Poor ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: any loan which does not contain a 35 per cent grant within it, was not touched by our Government. I do not know whether this policy is still there or not. However, it was one of the things which was making it difficult for many people who just wanted to make quick money to be running for the government. The other reason is that it makes it more difficult to negotiate cheaper loans in the long term with a longer grace period of negotiations. However, some of these people, the multilateral institutions that give cheap loans, are very sensitive. There ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: The PPP is not wrong. I do not think Sen. Onyonka was fighting against the PPP principle. He was fighting against the lack of transparency in the implementation of the project, so that people know they are getting value for their money. Those who can do the same thing are allowed to compete and participate in those projects. I sincerely believe that if we develop this system, it will help us reduce our debt level. I also want to just commend Sen. Mungatana. He has stressed very much on keeping records and digitalising the management of debt. This is long ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: There must be people there who are either benefiting. I do not know why it has not been digitalised fully up to now yet it is recommended in the Report. That should be done by yesterday. It is something which should be completed. It is not something we should continue arguing about. All the offices which have been mentioned are there and it is their responsibility. Otherwise, the Senate is going to make its recommendations which we hope will be implemented and not kept in the shelves. In Kenya, we are used to having very good ideas, but they are ... view