Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 721 to 730 of 1648.

• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance is responsible, on behalf of the Government, for receipt of these funds which are actually loans. Therefore, the refunds are like repaying the loans in advance but the loans are still there in our loan portfolio. It is only that these projects will be denied those particular funds but the specific question the hon. Member has asked is the action we are taking internally as a Government against officers who have fraudulently used Government money. I have read to you the various programmes and they are ... view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is aware that investigations are part of another arm of the Government and they are supposed to be independent in doing their investigations. So, it is only cases which have been proved to be of a criminal nature where officers have been identified that are being prosecuted. As soon as investigations are complete the officers will be brought to book or taken to court. This is an ongoing process--- view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I have stated, these refunds are an obligation from the Government in line with financing agreements with the World Bank and other bilateral donors. The consequences of not refunding this money are very grave for this country because what it means is that if the Government committed itself to refund any money which has been audited and found to have been either misused or fraudulently acquired is that they stop all ongoing projects funded by them. This is very grave for the country. Therefore, we have to deal with people who have stolen but we cannot ... view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is just reallocation of funds from the various votes which is a normal thing. Even now war is going on in Somalia and we are spending some money which we shall bring to this Parliament for approval. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are continuously strengthening our financial management systems under various programmes. We are constantly trying to seal the loopholes which make it possible for officers to loot and dip their fingers into public coffers. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the amounts of money which have been stolen are broken down. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I started from the last point. The hon. Member should not force me to answer his questions in the same order that he wants. So, I will answer in the order which I feel is convenient to me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the DPP is an independent body and all these cases where there is fraud have been referred to investigative arms of the Government. The officers have been directed to take disciplinary action whereas the criminal aspects--- view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the various Ministries concerned have already handed over further investigations on the audit because these things came as a result of an internal audit by the Government of Kenya and later there was a forensic audit done jointly with the World Bank. As a result of this audit, we instituted measures to first reinstate the money which is suspected to have been stolen so that the World Bank projects can continue. We have instructed the various Ministries to take disciplinary actions against the officers who are suspected to have looted the money but on the criminal aspects, ... view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, even the current Constitution allows the Government to operate and then come to Parliament because there are some emergency issues. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are issues which are unpredictable. view