Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I do not know why you allow points of argument to be taken as points of order. I think the House has rules and those people who are speaking are actually disagreeing with me. But disagreement is not a point of order. It is very healthy to disagree but you should not bring it up as a point of order. What I was saying is that in a bigger presidential system, you have a Senate which is not majoritarian. A Senate is supposed to serve the interests of the minorities. In the Senate – like we have ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I understand that. I was just making it clear that we do not have a pure presidential system. But I had already moved to another point. You are the one who brought me back to this. Now, the point I had moved to is on the implementation. In this Parliament, unless we have the Cabinet Secretaries sitting here, Motions will never be implemented. That is because those Cabinet Secretaries do not come here to agree with the Motions we are moving. Because they do not agree and even propose amendments like we used to do, they will ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. view
• 2 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I could not agree with the previous speaker more. This penalty is supposed to be a deterrent particularly to the employers. Many employers take low interest rates as a non-deterrence because if this window of defaulting is left to the employers, most of the employers would prefer not to borrow money from banks but rather use this money to trade. Because of this, the percentage of deterrence was made very high. Of course, it is too high. The 500 per cent is a bit unreasonable but to put it at 25 per cent, ... view
• 2 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my considered opinion on this issue is that this matter is not timely. That is because as we consider the introduction of a comprehensive insurance scheme for all Kenyans, we should not kill the existing NHIF. view
• 2 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I oppose the Motion. view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the dependant’s pension is still paid for a period of five years after the death of the pensioner. The processing of a dependant’s pension is made under the provisions of CAP.189 of the Pensions Act which was not affected by the revision of the mandatory retirement age. (b) It will not be possible to increase the period for payment of dependants’ pension to ten years instead of five years owing to current pressures on budgetary resources. It should be noted by honourable Members that the design of a ... view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in fact, I have stated here that we are preparing under the Superannuation Act a contributory pension scheme which will be ready by the time the current officers who are benefiting from this increment of the retirement age from 55 to 60 years. The Act will be ready by 2015 and there will be an improvement in the pension scheme. view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is a general allegation, but if there are any specific cases where there is no response, I will make sure that there is a response. But one other thing which we are doing to improve this response is to computerize the pensions department so that information which is sought by the public is available at a go when it is requested. view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, some of the officers were employed a long time ago when there were no strict requirements of birth certificates and so on. So, there are several documents which are required. Some of which require confirmation from the chiefs and so on. In trying to get some of this information, there is a delay. However, I have said all in all, we are trying to improve the system by computerizing so that we can get the information at a go. view