Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Jun 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to inform my leader one or two things. I have just known this afternoon that in Nairobi alone, pubs and restaurants and entertainment joints registered ones with the association are 30,000 units in Nairobi alone. The youth that are employed in those units are 1.5 million plus. So, when we talk about the industry, we must be very careful not to sometimes destroy the goose that lays the golden egg. view
• 12 Jun 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First of all, I am not registered on those things called twitter and facebook. But is it in order for the Leader of the Majority, a professor of law who should protect my human rights to suggest that I can only speak here because somebody is feeding me with some unsubstantiated facts and statistics? Another senior lawyer who was also a professor at the university is calling my statistics bogus without having any statistics himself. Is it in order to allow the Government side to speak carelessly? view
• 12 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, he did not ask me to give the facts. He said that they are bogus. So, he made a substantive statement. view
• 12 Jun 2014 in Senate: No, no, no. He only said that I was giving bogus statistics. If he asks me to substantiate where I brought them from, I could very well have said that. view
• 12 Jun 2014 in Senate: You have not raised a point of order. Do not talk to me across the bench. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I feel like a Front Bencher for a while; I have used the Back Bench--- view
• 11 Jun 2014 in Senate: First, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me thank the Mover of this Motion for bringing out this issue so that, at least, we can talk about our country in relation to the UN and to the international community on the job of peace keeping across the world. In fact, I want to give a small story about my best moment ever, when I was serving as the Minister for Immigration and Registration of Persons. I was asked to give a speech in Geneva, and there were only two speeches – my speech and the speech of Mrs. Clinton – and ... view
• 11 Jun 2014 in Senate: I wish somebody took a photo of me, I would be hanging it somewhere prominently in my library because it was a good moment for me to speak about our country, especially the problem that we had at that time in Somalia. The international community did not understand our problem; they did not understand that we were facing abductions; that we were facing bombings and sabotage in the hands of the Al Shabaab almost everywhere. They did not understand that these young people – I hear that Al Shabaab means ‘young people’ – were destroying our tourism industry. I had ... view
• 11 Jun 2014 in Senate: I do not know anything on military issues. The only thing I know as a good Kenyan is that if you are a soldier, you fight external wars. If you are a policeman, you keep peace at home. The police are better trained to do that job. I know some very good trained people who were almost pinning down these fellows before we bombed the place. But I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to say that we are proud of our soldiers and we wish them well wherever they go. In fact, that expose, which we ... view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Senator who is on the Floor, but I support this Bill because it is amending an Act of Parliament that already exists. We are not here to argue whether to allow people to drink or not to drink. If that is the case, then he should bring another Bill to bar alcoholic drinks. That would be a different debate and I do not think this is the place to moralize. view