Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 21 to 30 of 1622.

• 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
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you. view
• 3 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion at this time of reflection when our country is going through a lot of stress. This thing has not started today with this regime or the previous one. It is something that has been going on for years and years. Regime after regime has been coming in without listening to the people. This is happening because our people have not seen the independence they fought for. People thought they had gained independence, but when the leaders came in, they started with greedy by land grabbing, nepotism, tribalism and open ... view
• 3 Jul 2024 in Senate: When you talk of raising taxes, this institution called KRA is supposed to raise taxes from Kenyans, but the Government has missed it. I use to work with some of these people who are advising that raising levels of taxes and introducing new taxes is the way to go in raising money for the Government. I am sure that there are ways in which this Government can raise sufficient money, not only through the Finance Bill and all the requirements in the recurrent, but also all the requirements in development. We do not have to jump up and down begging ... view
• 3 Jul 2024 in Senate: step aside until investigations are completed; if you are cleared, you could come back. If not cleared, you do not come back to the office. Madam Temporary Speaker, there was a time when my own Minister, Amos Kimunya, declared that he will not resign even though he was being mentioned in some cases of corruption. He said he would resign over his dead body. The President insisted that he must step aside and Amb. Muthaura was in our office from morning to evening telling him, ‘if you do not step aside, the President will sack you.’ I can tell you, ... view
• 3 Jul 2024 in Senate: Government. If we strongly feel that there is something that they are not doing right, we must come up and advise them. If they do not listen, let us not wait for the people to teach us lessons. Let us do it ourselves. Let us advise and even come to the Floor of the House and say we have tried to advise, but we are not getting our advice through. This is correct and I did not even know that Sen. Cheruiyot knows some of the things he said here. I thought the way you, particularly Sen. Cherarkey, sometimes interrupts ... view
• 11 Jun 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to take this opportunity, just as my colleagues have done, to congratulate the committee, which was negotiating the Division of Revenue between the Equitable Shareable Revenue. They did a good job. However, the job they did as far as I am concerned, is not enough. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you talk of division of revenue, you should always take into consideration the fact that there is inflation in this country. Therefore, when you are saying that you give counties at least 15 per cent of the total revenue of the last audited ... view