Paul Otiende Amollo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this section requires a little more examination. First, the Chair has not explained the purpose. When he started clearly, he was referring to the wrong section. The second aspect is that it is important to explain how the amendment… I will help the Leader of Majority Party. The principal Act is in the back of the Bill as usual. If you look at Section 20, you will see it. The second point is that the Chair must explain how the proposed amendment differs from the provision as originally proposed. This is important because when it comes ... view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, with respect, I think there is confusion in the contributions. I hear all that the Members have said about the sweeping powers of the Director-General. What they are doing is not to create accountability. Instead, it is now to take those sweeping powers to the Cabinet Secretary, who will not participate in the process at all. In essence, it creates a worse situation. First of all, the entire Bill has placed a lot of power in the Director-General who, like the IEBC, will essentially be controlling the exercise. The thinking was that if you create that ... view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, with respect, I think there is confusion in the contributions. I hear all that the Members have said about the sweeping powers of the Director-General. What they are doing is not to create accountability. Instead, it is now to take those sweeping powers to the Cabinet Secretary, who will not participate in the process at all. In essence, it creates a worse situation. First of all, the entire Bill has placed a lot of power in the Director-General who, like the IEBC, will essentially be controlling the exercise. The thinking was that if you create that ... view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let us be very clear that the previous amendment, which I opposed, used similar wordings. If Hon. Oundo would listen to the contributions, then he might understand, so that we can agree to disagree. view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let us be very clear that the previous amendment, which I opposed, used similar wordings. If Hon. Oundo would listen to the contributions, then he might understand, so that we can agree to disagree. view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: In fairness to Hon. Oundo, he has used the same wordings as the previous amendment. He has used the words “may cause any official statistical data”. That is the same wording he has used. So, defeating his proposed amendment on that account may not work. However, I oppose his amendment for a number of reasons. First of all, let us broaden our thinking beyond statistics and the census. Let us even go to elections. In this country, we know that at any one time, at least, for the last five-or-so sets of elections, the results which are usually official results ... view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: In fairness to Hon. Oundo, he has used the same wordings as the previous amendment. He has used the words “may cause any official statistical data”. That is the same wording he has used. So, defeating his proposed amendment on that account may not work. However, I oppose his amendment for a number of reasons. First of all, let us broaden our thinking beyond statistics and the census. Let us even go to elections. In this country, we know that at any one time, at least, for the last five-or-so sets of elections, the results which are usually official results ... view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, as much as I understand and sympathise with the spirit of this amendment, I must oppose it for two practical reasons. view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, as much as I understand and sympathise with the spirit of this amendment, I must oppose it for two practical reasons. view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: First, in law and fact, they say functions follow resources. Nairobi as a city gets the major part of the resources of this country because of the population. If you were to say that those of us who live in Nairobi including all the Members in this House must be counted as if they live in their constituencies, then you will be living in Nairobi expecting to get services in Nairobi, but Nairobi County will not be getting the money for those services and it cannot be right. view