Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to start with a story. In the former Russia – not the new one – which was controlled by Stalin, I think he said that the population was getting lazy and he needed people to work hard so that there could be self sufficiency in food production. He, therefore, outlawed alcohol. For a while, he thought that he had achieved something. But he looked at the statistics of crime in his office and was astounded that crime was increasing alarmingly – murder, rape and all those other bad things. He ... view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: I will allow it. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: Thank you very much. I am very much informed. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir--- view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Is Sen. Karaba in order to suggest that if you produce, sell or even distribute molasses, sugar or any other ingredient – even millet – that may be used to make alcohol, then you are the culprit for the production of this alcohol that killed people? To suggest that would scare everybody who is in any other industry related to the production of alcohol. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: Yes. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: No, he has already mentioned who was away. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Regarding the procedural matter that has arisen between my two colleagues, after the First Reading, the Bill is subjected to a Committee. That follows as a matter of course. The Committee should have come here with some amendments and so on. The next Committee we will go into is the Committee of the Whole where we will expect Members to introduce amendments at that time. That is how it goes. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I think that the Attorney-General Emeritus went a little ahead of the procedure. This is because, actually, you were going to propose. When you propose the question is when he would have said what he wanted to say. He mistook you to say that you were putting the question. view
• 10 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, now that the Attorney-General Emeritus has not stood up quickly, I support that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. gets this chance to sit on the Speaker’s Chair and moderates the debate for the remainder of the evening, because he has what it takes to control debate. I do not want to add anything more. I think that he suits the bill. view