Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. I also stand to add my voice to the ones of colleagues who have spoken before me. I stand in support of this Report, which came about as a result of long and stretched negotiations because of a situation which was serious and dangerous in our country. People were going to the streets to protest the high cost of living and some of the measures being taken by the Government particularly on the issues of taxation and so on and so forth. view
• 20 Feb 2024 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 Services,Senate. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: It was thought wise that our country needed a discussion or dialogue. We needed to talk with each other and not at each other. It was because of that that it was decided that both sides of the divide sit down, discuss and come to some agreement even if it was not 100 per cent. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when dialogue starts, first you isolate the issues that you can easily agree on, then, you put down the issues that are more difficult to agree on. However, as you agree on some issues, the others that you do not agree on ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: I hope when I retire from this Senate, I will also be a beneficiary of that Fund. That is on a light note. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a big Report. I am not able to read the whole of it. It was just tabled the other day and it is more than 500 pages. I do not think even the fastest reader would have been able to go through each and every paragraph. However, the issues being touched on are very weighty. When you look at the issues of electoral justice, some of the people who have not participated ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 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 Services,Senate. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: are. I hope they will continue to be discussed so that we improve them and have elections that will be beyond the purity of Caesar’s wife. I also saw the issues of political parties discussed, particularly, when it comes to political party hoping. There are principles of democracy. In advanced democracies, such as our mother Parliament in Britain, when there is a whip and you are de-whipped, you cannot vote on the side that is not from the party in which you were elected on. It is a very serious issue. You can even lose your seat. Here, we take ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: This is something which is not taken seriously by the Executive, although the political parties have some entitlement and commitments. However, they are unable to meet those commitments because funds are not disbursed to them on time. This is an issue which I hope the recommendations in this Report will improve and something will be done to it. On the issue of gender, I have heard women very bitter about the issue of gender. The issue of gender is very sensitive. However, it is something that has been with us since I joined Parliament in 1994. There was a time ... view
• 13 Feb 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very prosperous new year. I would also like to do the same to my fellow Members of the Senate. I wish them a very prosperous new year. We are today approving the list of the Senate Business Committee as we start the Senate Session. I just want us to reflect a little on some of the things which transpired and which I personally would not like to see again. In the last Session, we passed several Bills. Some of them were ... view
• 13 Feb 2024 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 Services,Senate. view
• 13 Feb 2024 in Senate: When it comes to allocation of revenue, I would have thought that Members of the Senate would be the first to support proposals particularly from the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) based on the rationale which was given to us here. However, we opposed it and I do not want the debate to open again. I hope that we shall not continue with the same trend of not supporting the county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also saw something which happened last time which I would not like to see repeated. There was a situation where a Chairman of a ... view