Dr. Oburu Odinga

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• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Chair appears to be calling you Chairperson consistently. She did it the first time, I excused her and then she continued the second time. I think she should realise that you are Madam Speaker and not the Chair. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Paper. The history of productivity in this country is long. You remember the first Paper which was written on the productivity of land, labour and capital was Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 which was titled African Socialism and its Application to Development in Kenya . That Paper was good. It called itself African socialism but there was no socialism in it at all because the emphasis of the Government was directed towards productive areas of the country which grow coffee, tea and maize. Our country is composed of more ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Productivity is regarded as a return of investment per unit of capital. That is what capital produces when it is invested together with labour and land. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, labour is a very critical area. We need to be competitive in the world market. If we outprice ourselves in terms of the cost of labour, our country becomes uncompetitive. We have to be very careful when we are negotiating benefits, salaries and remunerations for our people. Countries like India and Japan have managed to catapult themselves almost into the First World. In fact, Japan is ahead of the First World. They have maintained very low cost of labour. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: India is a very good example because they are more or less our counter-parts around here. If you look at the cost of paying an engineer in India and our engineers here, the difference is almost 100 per cent. I know some people might say I am anti-labour, but we also want to be competitive as a country. We must maintain a reasonable remuneration for our people, but we must not do it to the extent of out-pricing ourselves out of the international market. Labour is our only advantage that we have. If you look at the world, we are ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Kenya has a lot of trained skills. We still need to train more of our people, but we need to make sure that while we train and create employment, we should keep our labour cost reasonably low. This is a very important Sessional Paper. It is an improvement of what was there in the past. I hope the Government will soon follow it up with a Bill to concretise some of the very good provisions which are in this Sessional Paper. With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This amendment was meant to take this matter to the Attorney-General for a legal advice. This is because we sometimes come across very many projects where the AG’s opinion is not sought at all and the Government ends up losing a lot of money. Before any project, especially one of the magnitude of Kshs5 billion and above, there is always a Cabinet Paper presented to the Cabinet by the Cabinet Secretary concerned. So, there is no fear that the Cabinet will not have had a say on this matter. The amendment is proper and ... view
• 16 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. The history of the sugar industry dates back to the Independence days in the early 19th Century. The various sugar factories in this country have different histories. They are not the same. Even the history of acquisition of land in respect to these factories is not the same. When hon. Dalmas spoke about acquiring land for the factories where people had already got title deeds and the people were quiet for purposes of the sugar industries, that was in respect of the SONY ... view
• 16 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: When you say the land will revert back, what method are you going to use to revert this land back to the communities? Land can only revert back either if the lease has expired and the Government is, therefore, free to reallocate it to somebody else or the 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
• 16 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Government can use compulsory acquisition provisions in the law to acquire the land. As long as the land does not require change of user and it is going to continue to be used for the same purpose, even if it is in private hands, there is no way we can pass a resolution, without amending the law, that this land is going to revert back to the communities when the land is privatised. The question of privatisation of these factories has been a very long process. In fact, in the previous Parliament, we used to have a caucus of Members ... view