Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Nov 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to debate on this amendment. The Mover of the amendment has said that it is only in this country where banks make profits in billions and they have now been joined by telephony companies. I have looked at it and realized that they are not profits. If those are profits, then they are obscene. These are called windfalls. You should not allow people to make windfalls instead of profits in your country. In fact, it only shows us how much they rob this economy or the users of those facilities. Why should Safaricom selling airtime ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in Senate: On a point of information, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in Senate: I have been wondering why the Ministry of Agriculture imports fertilizer. I have been wondering why the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) imports fertilizer. The Kenya National Trading Corporation went down but I want to inform my brother that in the last Cabinet, we were informed that it has now come back to life, that it has cleaned its balance sheet and it is now a strong company. Let us go back to giving the National Trading Corporation its job of importing bulk things that we need for this country, whether it is fertilizer or sugar, so that we ... view
• 5 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker,Sir, I want to take it from where the Chairman has left, because he says that he is going to consult some of his policy specialists on this matter. Let me just ask him to go and check this, while he talks to his policy framers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thought that most of the forests were planted on trust land. In fact, some of them are on hills and very difficult areas that were trust lands. According to the new Constitution, trust land is entrusted in the hands of the counties. So, let us get it clear whether ... view
• 5 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a disaster of this nature is the kind situation where you use your army which has the equipment, the capacity and the engineers to fix some of these things quickly. It is like a bridge being swept away and you call the army to construct a temporary one where people can pass as you think of getting money from the World Bank. view
• 5 Nov 2013 in Senate: So, can we fix this thing before we talk of these big things from the WB? We are just fixing a spillage--- view
• 5 Nov 2013 in Senate: Please, do not shame this country with this World Bank business! view
• 31 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we debated this matter one whole afternoon but I think we can repeat some of the things that we said. Just to bring the Chairman to speed one more time, is to remind him of what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has referred to but looking at it from a different angle. He has said that Article 230 sets up the Salaries and Remuneration Commission and at (5) it says;- (a) “In performing its functions, the Commission shall take the following principles to account; the need to ensure the total Public Compensation Bill is fiscally sustainable“ This is ... view
• 31 Oct 2013 in Senate: On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 31 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, by saying that there should be some leeway in determining how to remunerate, even on allowances, look at Nairobi, for example, the cost of living in Nairobi is higher than in Homa Bay. Sometimes travelling in Kakamega, as was suggested by the Senator for Kakamega, from certain ends is further than Nairobi. Sometimes the cost of using matatus in Nairobi is higher than that of using view