Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank hon. Mbadi for the information. Let me go to one other matter. It is not our job to enrich the report of the IEBC; it is our job to check whether the IEBC acted within the law. If they acted within the law, we accept and if they acted outside the law, we reject. That is our job. It is not our job to come here and become another IEBC. Why did we even create that independent Commission if our intention was to actually do it here? Now that the report is here, let me ... view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my position is that we can say they acted outside the law because they are not supposed to even interfere with names. The Ligale Report had already given the names. There was no power in their part to change those names. view
• 20 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. There is a fine distinction here between the current Constitution that we now practise and the old Constitution which, to some extent, is still continuing in certain cases. The definition of “Executive” and “Legislature” is not as clear as I hear the hon. Members speak about it every day. This is because we are both Members of the Legislature and at the same time members of the Executive. In fact, it is because of that confusion that we went for this kind of Constitution so that we separate it clearly, but we ... view
• 20 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. There is a fine distinction here between the current Constitution that we now practise and the old Constitution which, to some extent, is still continuing in certain cases. The definition of “Executive” and “Legislature” is not as clear as I hear the hon. Members speak about it every day. This is because we are both Members of the Legislature and at the same time members of the Executive. In fact, it is because of that confusion that we went for this kind of Constitution so that we separate it clearly, but we ... view
• 20 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there will be a time when there will be a clear Executive outside this House and a clear Legislature inside this House. But as long as we still do not have that, if a parliamentary group or even a group of Members of Parliament would like to meet to discuss what position to take on any matter, they will be free to do so without any penalty. In fact, even as we go to vote, Members of a parliamentary group can ask for adjournment to go and discuss how they will vote and the Speaker will allow ... view
• 20 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there will be a time when there will be a clear Executive outside this House and a clear Legislature inside this House. But as long as we still do not have that, if a parliamentary group or even a group of Members of Parliament would like to meet to discuss what position to take on any matter, they will be free to do so without any penalty. In fact, even as we go to vote, Members of a parliamentary group can ask for adjournment to go and discuss how they will vote and the Speaker will allow ... view
• 20 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 20 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first let me declare my interest. I want to say that the person who is proposed to be the chairman, Mr. Matemu Mumo was my classmate. So, that is a personal interest in the matter. The second interest in the matter is that when he retired from KRA recently, I gave him a job to do for my Ministry. I gave him work to do research and come up with two Bills that we brought to this House to give reforms in the Immigration Department in line with the Constitution. He delivered view
• 15 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, because I have not done anything out of order. Let me now come to the debate. There was a very good debater in this House. He has since left us; he was called hon. Odongo Omamo. Hon. Omamo was good in delivery even in this House or outside. At one time, he was accused of disloyalty to KANU for which he worked for very hard. He asked: “But how have you shown that I am disloyal?” He was told: We looked at your heart and we think you are not very loyal at ... view