Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, for ladies who want to include their husbands’ names in their identity cards, I have since said that they should do so without a charge. I have said this because I think it is discriminatory to expect ladies to pay a fee in order to put their names correctly because it is in the interest of the country and the family that they bear such names. Consequently, I have directed that no fees will be charged. In fact it was even more costly for a young lady who had been married under customary law to have her ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think we will go manual even in voting because we can be very frustrated if this is what technology can do to us during the voting. view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: I am surprised that people have waited for more than two years before they get their identity cards. I would have expected that by now, I would have got that information and we would have dealt with it. However, I will look at it because that is inordinate delay. With regard to 8,000 Samburu residents who do not have identity cards, I think this is a bit speculative. However, we are in every district. It is only yesterday that the Government agreed, one more time, to give Kshs500,000 for every ASAL district and Kshs400,000 for other districts to continue with ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether that is a valid point of order but if so, I really wish that we went that technology route. I am appealing that it works efficiently for everybody. I was about to finish answering Ms. Leshomo when I said that we now have resources and sooner or later we will be on the road one more time. I want to urge Members of Parliament to please use the networks that you have in your constituencies to make sure that Kenyans come out to register. Sometimes we go round and we do not ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with Dr. Otichilo. I can provide copies of the notice to your pigeon holes. I promise that on Tuesday next week each one of you will find that notice. view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there is no Registrars of Births and Deaths stationed in Nandi North District. This is due to the acute shortage of staff. The department can only manage to take its services to 104 districts out of a total current number of 285 administrative districts. We, therefore, serve the affected new districts from their parent districts. (b) I am doing the following to have the officers posted to Kabiyet Town. To address the severe shortage of staff that has constrained the operations of civil registration in all the newly ... view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the staff will, definitely, move to Kabiyet. Because of the shortage, we require them to be going round. So, they will go to Kabiyet; the hon. Member can take that from me. But when they go there, there is a small difficultly; that for those who were born in hospitals and whose births were captured and the information kept at Kapsabet, we will still have to go to Kapsabet to cross-check those records. But for those whose births were not captured, we will deal with them as late registration. We will register them as we go round ... view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just as we have difficulty with recruiting new staff, we have even more difficulty with office space. I would urge that where we really do not have office space, the constituencies can provide even a small room for the officers to work. I have gone to many constituencies where they are using constituency offices to offer these services. So, I hope that the Member for Lari will co-operate. Now that I have given you an officer, please, house him. view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have come up with a strategy in which the Civil Registrar in the county will use schools as registration centres, especially primary schools. This year, Standards Seven and Eight pupils are not scrambling for birth certificates because we covered them last year. We want to go down even to Standard Four and within a short time we will be registering people as they join school, because we have realized that nursery school is the place to capture those whose births were not reported early. view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said that if I do not get an officer to post, I will direct the officer at the parent district to start a mobile registration centre at Kabiyet, and he will work from the Member’s constituency office. The Member can be sure that in 14 days there will be an officer working from there temporarily. view