Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just to add that this particular matter is serious because I heard it on radio. Some of the head teachers from my county called me and said that they had gone to borrow money to buy some of these equipment and materials, and the people who usually supply them were not willing to supply them anymore because some of them already have gone beyond their creditworthiness. So, it is a serious matter that if is a phone call away, I wish that tomorrow, the Chairman could come and tell us about it, so that we can be ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is something that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale mentioned and if we leave it without commenting about it, the Press can continue highlighting it. This is the fact that the Lower House has had more Bills than the Senate. If we let it go that way, then it will look like it is a fact, but it should not be a fact because the Lower House deals with many, many other Bills, while we deal with very restricted Bills as it is now. If we amend the Constitution and give ourselves powers to look at those Bills again, ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is it correct for the Leader of the many, to suggest that the word “Minister” still has any meaning, when it is no longer in our Constitution? So, anybody who wants to use it, can use it as he wishes. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for recognizing me. First of all, we can deal with this commission in two ways; either we disband it because it is not helping us and yet we are paying it a lot of money for doing nothing or we remove ourselves from this thing called state officers because we are not. I can see that the media is trying to say that if we do so, then we will pay ourselves the salaries we think we should earn thereby putting the public against us. But we were elected by the same ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: this country. Therefore, somebody cannot come from nowhere, sit in a commission and speak as if she is the Minister for Finance, or the Head of State. When you listen to her, I have never seen such amount of arrogance, belligerence and condescending attitude to Members who have been elected by the people of Kenya. These days you can check on somebody quickly just to know where they went to school, what they did and so on. So, I checked and wondered who evaluated her job to make her earn beyond Kshs1 million. Who made her number one when she ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me take you back to where we were. At least now, she does not respect us, but we are better off. When I came to Parliament, I found Sen. Kiraitu Murungi. They were earning Kshs74,000. Before that, they were earning Kshs19,000. They were paying us in cash and when I saw the bunch of Kshs74,000, I was very excited. I was happy because I was now earning a salary because I never used to earn a salary. Then I took a loan of Kshs500,000 to buy an old Peugeot. The National Bank of Kenya (NBK) ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Members. Those days we used to push cars outside Parliament because they could not start. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one had to pay Kshs33,000 every month for five years and live on Ksh16,000 for five years. The mileage which used to help us so much was Kshs5,000. I used it to fuel the car to go to Mbita, but the car could not reach there, because it was old. That amount was to enable me to see my constituents and still feel like a Member of Parliament. This is the situation where we came from and this is where our brothers and sisters are because as you have already seen, they are paying over Kshs50,000 ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, after she does that, she should fix proper salary scales. I do not think that somebody should have left his job to earn Kshs79,000. Some of them are engineers, lawyers and doctors. In fact, even the executive or what we call “the cabinet secretaries”, for lack of a better word, are earning very little money. Some of them are superior civil servants and scholars. In my own county, I think there are two professors. Why should a professor leave his job to serve his people and be paid about Kshs170,000, which is deducted and remains, Kshs120,000, ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me finish by saying that we did not create constitutional office holders to undermine the same document that created them. This is because when you now say that you do not know what an MCA and the Senate do, then The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view