Dr. Oburu Odinga

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• 17 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: from a company which was known to be going under. The people who were sourcing it were technically not qualified and they are the ones who went there to negotiate. The technical people were left behind. Therefore, the contract did not even have a provision for maintenance of the aircraft itself. Determining which items fall under security should be discussed with us in Parliament, so that we can also know that those ones are truly of security nature, which need not to be reviewed. It should not be left to the Cabinet or to a sub-Cabinet committee to discuss issues ... view
• 17 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: The contracts were drawn in secrecy and they were not known to people. They were only revealed much later when the deal had been done and the Republic of Kenya had lost money. Hon. Speaker, this one called “Chicken Gate” is more or less one that could be classified as “security”, so that people can get away with such a deal. We will only get to learn about them from foreign courts when, indeed, those things ought to have been discovered and prosecuted by us Kenyans. view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. This is a very important Report by the Committee and I would like, from the outset, to support the Report and state that this particular issue of the Monetary Union of the East African Community is an issue which is very crucial for the implementation of the East African Union. The Monetary Union is not a new thing. This is something which was in existence at Independence. Actually, our currency was one with Uganda and Tanzania. That time it was Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The benefits cannot be overstated because ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Our countries have historical bonds which bound them together as one during the colonial exploitation. The struggle for Independence by these countries was united. In fact, those who were there that time will recall that Tanzania even wanted to delay their Independence to wait for all the other East African countries to be independent from the colonial rule. The move for the EAC was supposed to be people-driven, which means that it ought to have been driven by this Parliament. Over the years, since negotiations for the EAC started, the drive for the Community has been done exclusively by the ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: The other issue is on free movement of goods, which also presents a problem with the tariffs. The other one is on the issue of the common identity, which is still a problem to implement. The last one is the right of establishment. Tanzanians fears that if there is right of establishment, Kenyans will buy land and settle permanently in Tanzania, which will adversely affect their economy. They particularly fear that people from this area will use this opportunity to grab land because they think Kenyans are land grabbers, and that they would extend that habit to Tanzania. view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Some of us may not be aware that when we talk of free movement of capital, the Tanzanians say that they are ahead of Kenya in terms of direct foreign investment, but what they call advantage and being ahead in terms of direct foreign investment is actually investment by Kenyans. The majority of those who invest directly in Tanzania are Kenyans. That is because they have better Excise Duty policies which make it more profitable for capital to move down that way. In conclusion, I would like to urge that Kenya Government addresses the issue of Excise Duty. This issue ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. I rise to support this Motion because it concerns a university and also a very good friend of mine, the late hon. Michael Wamalwa. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, first, I want to disagree with those who are saying that a university necessarily kills a middle level training institute. We do not have to kill that technical institute. I can explain what happened to me as an hon. Member for Bondo. I was also seeking to convert Bondo Technical and Teachers Training College into ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: concept that can accommodate a technical institute and a teachers training college. A teachers training college, or a technical institute, cannot accommodate a university, but a university can accommodate a technical training institute. It does not have to be within it, but it can be put up separately. It is just a matter of acquiring some pieces of land and building some parallel institutions the way I did in Bondo, where we used our CDF. We bought land and put up some facilities to start it off and the Government came in and built the rest. Bondo Technical and Teachers ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Let me talk about my friend, the late hon. Kijana Wamalwa who became my friend when he was a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. We became close friends and when multi-partyism was introduced in the country, I remember there was FORD, of which he was one of the founders. He also participated when FORD split into two, FORD-Asili and FORD(K). He was persistent and became the second Vice-Chairman of FORD(K) after hon. Osogo refused to take up the position. Therefore, hon. Wamalwa became the Vice-Chairman of my late father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, who was the chairman of the party ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: The late Kijana Wamalwa worked diligently and finally, when Muite fell out of the party, he remained the only Vice Chair of FORD(K). After Jaramogi’s death in January 1994, Wamalwa became the Chairman of FORD(K) and replaced Jaramogi as the Leader of the Opposition in this Parliament. That was the time I become an hon. Member of Parliament. I worked very closely with hon. Wamalwa; in fact, after the death of my father, hon. Wamalwa came to Bondo and campaigned for me vigorously and I won the Bondo seat against a giant, the late hon. Odongo Omamo, Kaliech. view