Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: We also want the guns of Governor Joho to be taken away because the issue is being used as a diversionary tactic from the issues afflicting the country. view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to support this Bill. I was a Member of Parliament when the Donde Bill was introduced and when Hon. Midiwo attempted to introduce a Bill with regard to the same, I was an Assistant Minister for Finance. When the Bill came to the Floor of the House, I opposed it because we were giving banks a chance for self-regulation. The self-regulation we have been giving the banks has failed completely. Banks have refused to behave like those in the developed world. In Britain and Europe, banks usually adjust their rates ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Fund, there is still mismanagement. Formal banks misbehave more than the funds being created. They do not make it easy. They set interest rates very high. Our people who do not even have securities do not get an opportunity to access credit. There is no country which can grow without access to credit. No country can also grow without its people, the business community and even the farming community having access to cheap and accessible credit. The banks have asked for this through their own actions. When this Parliament acts, it should do so resolutely. We urge the Government, which ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for giving me this opportunity. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: At the outset, I want to support this amendment because there are people in the country who confuse democracy with chaos. Democracy is a very deliberate system of organised expression of the will of the people, and people have the right to express their will. However, there must be rules to it. Those rules are such that people cannot just move from political parties at any time they like, or jump from this vehicle to the other one. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: In this country, there are people who keep briefcase political parties in their houses and just wait for elections. When it is time for elections, they walk around fishing for people who want to jump from their parties, so that they can seek favours from them. They do not give them certificates for nothing. Those people collect a lot of money. They become rich and stay for the whole year without doing anything else. They wait for elections or by-elections so that they can collect money. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, we must bring discipline to our system of democracy so that people can choose their parties on time according to the rules. Political parties are just like clubs which have rules and people must be controlled. This is one of the ways that Kenya could move towards an organised system where you do not have so many briefcase political parties. We can have a system of two, three or four strong parties which compete with proper ideologies and organised systems of management so that wananchi can have a choice of the best leaders who are endowed ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the amendment and urge other Members to support it. Thank you. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to oppose this Report because of history. The struggle to create a devolved system of government was a very long one. There were people in the system who opposed the creation of the devolved systems of government. This so-called Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee was created in the dying hours of the last Parliament. There were no parliamentarians in the House. They were busy in their constituencies. It is the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee which tried to reverse some of the fundamental issues on devolution which were in ... view