Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, just as you refer this matter to the RBC, there is something about the Press that we must say. Those days when we were trying to get multiparty politics in the country, we realized that the Opposition had been given a blackout by the media. Those days there was only one media which is KBC. We had to go to court to seek space so that at least the Opposition could also be covered. Of course, they gave us grudgingly and they covered us a little and argued that it was enough. If you watch the ... view
• 24 Jul 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I did not want to interfere with the professor but he mentioned something that I want him to explain or correct. He said that the officer from Rwanda was following the long trailers and counted how many toll stations are between the borders of Kenya to the sea. Then as he was continuing to speak, he called them road blocks. So, I was wondering whether the road blocks are the toll stations and what is the relationship between the two. view
• 23 Jul 2014 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also contribute to this goodwill message that was brought to us by the President of the Senate of Rwanda. I say that it is a goodwill message because that is exactly what it is, from a sister nation to an institution of the Senate, whose first and primary duty is to protect the State and make friends with other states. If we do that, we will have done a big job for this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Rwanda is a beautiful country. I have been there twice ... view
• 23 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know that the Kuria clan is the largest in Tanzania. However, when I talked to the President of Tanzania one time, he told me that they are the most troublesome. I think we can take our country very far. In fact, that is why I love the issue of integration in East Africa. If East Africa was integrated and we had one federal Government, probably we would not even think of tribes. We would be very minute inside there and all this hot air about tribalism will flee. I must also criticize this speech for ... view
• 23 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the last thing I want to say is that genocide was mentioned three times in this speech. I wish that we did not--- view
• 22 Jul 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I know that we will be moving to division very soon. However, I would like to thank the ladies and gentlemen who did a very good job in the Mediation Committee. This was the first time we were engaging in this very difficult process knowing the attitudes that surround this issue. How did we treat Level Five Hospitals in the last Budget? view
• 22 Jul 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mine is very straightforward and short. If we treated the Level Five Hospitals as if they belong to the counties; where they exist, I need to know who pays their salaries. Do the salaries go to the counties where the hospitals are located? I am looking at the New Nyanza General Hospital, Coast General Hospital and Kisii Level Five Hospital; the eleven of them. If they were treated as county hospitals, then the Budget of last year would stay. However, the Kshs1.87 billion would be additional. It seems to me as if we have ... view
• 22 Jul 2014 in Senate: Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to say one or two things about this very important Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we say 40 per cent and 60 per cent, we are not quite sure what it amounts to. Unless you do the costing and we are advised by experts on the actual costing of what it is that these counties do in terms of paying out certain sums as recurrent expenditure, we might say: Okay, let us move the amount for development to 70 per cent, when 30 per cent that is remaining cannot pay the ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Sorry, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It has taken some time for the microphone to switch on. On what the Senate Minority Leader has said, there was a Bill that we debated, went through the Second Reading and actually completed. I think it was on the Alcoholic Drinks Control (Amendment) Bill. After we finished the debate is when it went to committee. The committee has sat on it and I do not know for how long. Some of us who participated, with a lot of passion on this, had a mind of introducing some amendments to it. So, it has reversed the ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Unfortunately, I think you concentrated on the Senate Minority Leader’s point so much that you forgot to deal with mine which was more serious than his. Mine actually is that the House went on - because there was no report of the Committee - and debated the Bill at the Second Reading stage. Then after we voted, the matter went back to the Committee and the Committee now called for public participation; working backwards. Up to now, the matter has not proceeded to Third Reading. I do not know whether it is because we are ... view