Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (a) The Government will finance the budgetary requirements of the IIEC through the Government Fiscal Framework. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (b) I assure this House that the Government will provide funds for the voter registration exercise and the anticipated constitutional referendum. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (c) The IIEC will receive funds in accordance with the agreement between Treasury and the Commission. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to assure this House that the Government is committed to supporting the activities and programmes of the IIEC. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that the Government has asked our development partners to support us in that reform process. That is not unique because our development partners have already been supporting the Government in its reform agenda. That, in no way, compromises our sovereignty. As to whether the Government will continue to support that process even without that support, I would like to inform the House that we have already provided, in the Supplementary Budget, an extra Kshs3 billion, which will be used for voter registration. We are also going to make provisions for the referendum in ... view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have explained, we have Kshs3 billion for the voters’ registration exercise. It will be brought before this House in the Supplementary Estimates any time now. I do not think the delay in the registration of voters is because of non-release of funds by the Treasury. I do not control the timetable of reforms. However, there are many factors which would affect the delay and not necessarily the release of these funds. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I confirm that the Government is not broke. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we act on the request of the IIEC. From the breakdown of the request which came from them, electronic voting was not part of that budget. Therefore, we do not have any provision for that. However, if they bring it, we shall factor it in the budget. As for now, we do not have any provision for that. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that does not fall under my docket. I cannot say exactly when we will have the referendum. However, we are ready to fund it from July this year. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have assured the House that there is funding for this exercise. What I have said I cannot undertake is to tell this House exactly when the referendum will take place. I did not say that the referendum will not take place. I just said, I cannot say exactly when it will take place. view
• 10 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Are you saying, voter education exercise? I did not hear that. view