Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1471 to 1480 of 1615.

• 24 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank all hon. Members who have contributed to this important Motion. The points raised by hon. Members are very pertinent; they are issues to do with connectivity. As has been stated in both the Sessional Paper and in the presentation which I made here, this loan is meant to improve the capacity of the Mombasa Port to handle cargo, and even passengers for tourism purposes. On the issues raised by Mr. Mungatana, about the mobilization of internal resources to finance ventures like this one, this is a very important issue, which is ... view
• 24 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: This will mobilize internal resources which will help us to finance some of the infrastructure projects like this one of Mombasa. However, the terms of this loan are such that even if we floated bonds, we cannot match locally the terms offered by the Japanese Government. It is not easy to find a concessionary loan--- If you mobilise funds locally, that will still be a loan. It will still be a public debt and will still have to be serviced. It will have to be serviced at reasonable market prices in terms of interest. If we get donors who give ... view
• 22 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that Mr. Fredrick Nzyoka has not been receiving his monthly pension since October, 2005. (b) Mr. Nzyoka's failure to receive his monthly pension was occasioned by his change of bank account number and also by an error in the new account number that he belatedly submitted to the Pensions Department. This error has been identified and rectified and his monthly pension, together with all his arrears, will be paid to him with effect from July, 2008. view
• 22 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the pensioner submitted his bank account number sometime in June, 2005. His gratuity was posted to him on 30th June, 2005, through the above mentioned bank account number. He was later introduced into the payroll with effect from 1st October, 2005. However, when the monthly pension remittances started going to that account, they consistently came back to the Pensions Department until the pensioner again submitted another bank account where again money was being remitted and still being returned to the Pensions Department. Finally, it was detected that the reason why the computer was not accepting the remittances ... view
• 22 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are major reforms going on in the Pensions Department. One of them is to computerise the filing system in that department. There are arrangements to introduce information management systems. Right now, they are at an advanced stage. When this is done, we shall not need a lot of staff. We shall, in fact, need less staff. The rest will be redeployed elsewhere and the Department will be more efficient than it is. We admit that prior to this, there has been a lot of inefficiency and a lot of piling up of work which is now ... view
• 22 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we appreciate that the pensioner has suffered for a long time and, as we have said, he is going to get his pension in the payroll for this month. I can assure the hon. Member that this is going to happen. view
• 16 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, we agree with the observation that the oversubscription of the Safaricom shares is an indication that Kenyans have a lot of resources that can be tapped for development purposes. Indeed, it is this realisation that informed the proposal to include Kshs18.5 billion for infrastructure bond in this year's Budget. We intend to deepen the market for infrastructure bond so that even profitable parastatals can issue their own bonds backed by a strong cashflow and without Government guarantees. In addition, the framework to operationalise public/private partnerships is in its final stage ... view
• 16 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as far as the public-private sector partnership is concerned, the gazettement of the regulations is going to be done by next week. The structures, and a Cabinet Paper, have been prepared for this purpose. Therefore, this is an ongoing process. view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we shall be able to respond to that point of order next week. view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: The Speaker should give direction. I think Thursday afternoon will be appropriate. view