Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1121 to 1130 of 1172.

• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to continue from where the hon. Member who has just spoken left. Infrastructure is the key to the development of any country. We do not have to over- emphasise that Nairobi itself is already clogged. If you do not travel the road I usually do, there is a road called Outering Road. If you are coming from Komarock to town and you leave at 7.00 a.m., you will reach this town at 9.00 a.m. The amount of fuel which you waste on ... view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: I can see that we cannot do it through taxes. We have collected the largest tax we have ever collected since Independence in the last financial year, yet after you make the mandatory payments, what you remain with cannot build roads. We need hundreds of billions of Kenya Shillings to do that. So, we must go the way hon. Wambora has suggested. We must create special bonds for the construction of our roads. No country has ever developed its infrastructure by taxes because you just cannot collect enough. But people can invest in these roads if the Government were to ... view
• 14 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Question is very specific. It is asking how much is paid to the Director in form of salary and other allowances. The Minister has specifically stated the salary. We expected the allowances also to be specified, so that we can do some simple arithmetic and get the total. However, who negotiated this kind of salary and allowances? Parliament created this office and we expected Parliament to decide how much our officer would be earning. view
• 13 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: , asked the Minister for Education:- (a) whether he is aware that certain head teachers of secondary schools, in cahoots with parents teachers associations and District Education Boards, conspired to beat the Ministry's guidelines on fees by:- (i) publishing two fees structures, one for public consumption and the other between the parents and the school administration; (ii) introducing numerous projects charged annually outside the prescribed fees; (b) whether he is further aware that this is a conspiracy of the rich against the poor; and, (c) what steps the Government is taking to contain this mischief. view
• 13 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is it in order for the Minister to mislead this House that there can be any thorough inquiry into this matter when the people we are 1302 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 13, 2006 inquiring about have been spirited away by the same Government? view
• 8 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, why was it necessary to import and use this machinery when there is abundant labour, in fact, excess labour? We want this labour absorbed because we want to create employment. view
• 8 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Information and Communications:- (a) when the Government will privatise Telkom Kenya and free Kenyans from the burden of an expensive, inefficient and uncompetitive parastatal; and, (b) what went wrong with the previous attempts at privatization and/or sale of Telkom Kenya. view
• 8 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, the Assistant Minister seems to have accepted that Telkom Kenya is expensive, it is a burden, it is inefficient and uncompetitive. So why do we restructure or privatise in a limited manner? If we really want to privatise and if we want the service from Telkom Kenya, why do we not go the full hog and just make it an efficient and competitive private enterprise owned by Kenyans? Kenyans can buy shares! view
• 8 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we were in the Opposition, the Government was in a hurry to privatise Telkom Kenya. In fact, we put a lot of pressure on the then Government to privatise this corporation. We did not even care about the correct cost. We do not care about the cost. We care more about the service and what it can generate. Since the NARC Government took over, it has not taken any action to privatise this corporation. They are left with one year to go. We are hearing about "restructuring", "privatisation", "next year" and "retrenchment". We are just ... view
• 31 May 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose the Motion. view