Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: If he does not have any supplementary question, he should shut up! view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to withdraw and apologize. However, I wish to ask you to also ask him to withdraw that reference to the Prime Minister, which was offensive. view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the ESPs were introduced during the world economic downturn. These projects were meant to stimulate the economy so that the country could recover from the economic downturn which affected it. This country was affected in three very serious areas. One was the very serious drought which affected the country in 2008. The other one was the post-election violence, and then, of course, the world economic downturn. Economic stimuli by their nature are meant to be temporary. They are not meant to be a lasting feature of planning in a country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, ... view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, can I just complete answering the question? If the hon. Members feel very strongly that the funds allocated to this particular aspect of the ESP were not sufficient, the Ministry is ready to consider that aspect but not the whole ESP. view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are following up, and the report I have just tabled here shows that we know the exact status of every project to which we disbursed the money. What we did not give here, but which we know, are the details of every programme. We are not the implementing Ministry. We cannot say we are not able to follow up on the programme, otherwise we would not have been able to bring an answer to Parliament this afternoon. view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have said, the creation of a centre of excellence like one secondary school per constituency needed Kshs30 million. Other hon. Members put these projects in existing schools. So they improved the existing schools and did not start new schools because it is very difficult to start a completely new school using Kshs30 million. I have said that if hon. Members started new schools and the structures are not complete - we have had some petitions from hon. Members to this effect - the Ministry is ready to consider this particular aspect of the ... view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I even want to clarify further that only those projects that have already been started, and are incomplete. We are ready to consider only those ones. When I say we are ready to consider them, I mean that we will do so in the next financial year. As I said from the beginning, this current financial year we do not have those projects in place. view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there were two documents. I think maybe he has only the one which deals with computers, which came late, and that is why it is separate from the others. The other paper which I want to table here actually contains all the projects and their status. If you look at what I have said about the food component, I have given the breakdown of the targeted acreage, the acreage which was achieved, the bags produced and so on. So, I have given each and every component of the implementation status in summary. The detailed reports ... view
• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is an oversight. I tabled my copy and left the one which was meant for the hon. Members. view
• 1 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the there was a breach of some provisions of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 in the procurement of Ultra Heated Temperature (UHT) plant and equipment by the Githunguri Dairy Farmers Co-operative Society Limited. (b) I am also aware that the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) conducted a procurement assessment on the procurement entity to establish the level of its compliance with the procurement law. I hereby table a copy of the authority’s procurement assessment report. view