Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you profusely for recognizing me as the youngest Member of this House. I have turned 81 years old and I feel as if I am 40 years old. view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: ( Applause) view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: I also want to take this opportunity to contribute to the Report of our Committee, the Committee on Finance and Budget that is chaired by our very competent leader from 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
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mandera County, Sen. Ali Roba. This is a very important Bill. I think it is one of the cardinal functions of our Senate because our Senate is there to protect devolution. I was a Member of Parliament when there was no Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). At that time, we had the Local Government Fund (LGF). Later on, we had something called the Rural Development Fund (RDF), which was very small amount of money and it was mainly from donors. We used to sit long hours as Members of Parliament in the District Development Committees to determine where the money would ... view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: know where to do it. It should mainly affect the national Government budget and not the county government budget. I used to work in the National Treasury and we had a knife which used to cut allocations to Ministries. However, there was a misunderstanding because some Ministries used to throw big figures outside the ceilings they were given because they knew that the National Treasury would reduce them. They used to give big figures so that if they are reduced, it would come to what they wanted. The National Treasury used to give everything requested as long as they were ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning to this Parliament. I know when I was there as an Assistant Minister, he used to ask me very tough questions and I would struggle to answer some of them. I just want to ask strictly one question, as you have said. I am just curious that when the team went to China, they only negotiated for payment of Chinese contractors and yet, there are many other contractors who have also stalled. They have moved out ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also want to congratulate Madam Cabinet Secretary for the good job that she is doing and ask her two questions. Or you want me to just ask one question? view
• 25 Sep 2024 in Senate: Okay. Madam Temporary Speaker, Mombasa is already over- saturated with tourism investment; that is where we all go. We all want to go to Mombasa. We all want to take our families to Mombasa. However, there is too much tourism potential in the western part of Kenya. I would like the Cabinet Secretary to tell me. There is a ring road that was to go around Lake Victoria and it was supposed to be an investment. It was designed and posted. I do not know whether it was tendered. It was meant to open up tourism potential in that area. ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in Senate: Sen. Oketch Gicheru asked about the islands and Lake Victoria, but he tells me that you did not quite say anything about Lake Victoria. This is a very high potential area for tourism. It is time that we started directing our investments towards the west where there is great tourism potential, including wildlife and lake sports. There is a lot of potential in the islands, Mageta, Takawiri, and Mfangano. There is a lot of tourism potential in those areas. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to comment on the Statement sought by Sen. Chute regarding the northern region of our country. The marginalisation of these areas started right from Independence. At Independence, there was a Sessional Paper of 1965 which clearly stated that investments in the development of our country will be based on the highest return per shilling. This was intended to only develop areas with high potential, agriculturally viable. It marginalized the North Eastern region which did not look viable. However, the soil there is very fertile. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, rivers pass through there. ... view