Paul Otiende Amollo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: It might be remembered that as we seek to curtail and diminish the standing of the legal profession in this country, we are members of the East African Community (EAC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). The constitutive instruments allow cross- border practice. We are coming to a place where we are diminishing client’s confidence in advocates in this country. As a result they will just use other practitioners in other sister countries. I want to suggest that as we lose on this issue, it should be remembered already we have very stringent regulations both under this ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: deal with any bank are required to disclose information, when they receive and send money. That is sufficient and there can be no justification for isolating and bringing the lawyers to this. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to submit that this proposal, however, well intentioned, is ill-advised, ill-conceived and the text is such that it cannot pass constitutional mark- star. Indeed, rather than have long debates on this matter, I urge the substantive Speaker, to find these proposals completely unconstitutional and be dropped at this stage. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to contribute to this Motion and state that this was a constitutional imperative that was well executed to the extent that, in addition to the three reports required by the Constitution, the President gave an additional report on the Business Climate reforms. In addition to that, beyond the one year that is required of the Constitution, the President took us through the eight years of his Presidency. That is beyond the call of duty under the Constitution. The President covered 12 key areas. We all heard them. Of interest to me, first, is the ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Even though, for example, in my constituency, the roads and Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) have stalled, we have petitioned. Other than pointing out at development in terms of infrastructure, he should have focused on equitable distribution of infrastructure. The President touched on international relations and I agree with his observation that it does not bear well to close borders because COVID will invade us anyway. It is about the practices we observe internally. More important in his Address was his favourite refrain: Not an inch more, not an inch less. I fully agree with that. Article 10 of the Constitution ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: focused on certain procedural issues. Those procedural issues can be addressed at any time. In any event, we cannot suppose that the Supreme Court before whom the matter now lies, will agree with the Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court may as well set aside all the observations and orders of the Court of Appeal. Second, the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal cannot be a death nail to the ideas in the BBI. Ideas cannot die. Those ideas, whether we resurrect them before or after the next election, will come to pass. Lastly, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On 30th September, with your special permission, I posed Question No.004/2021 as a Question by Private Notice regarding disappearance of one of my constituents, Mr. Francis Oyaro. With your direction, you rendered it to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security with direction that they respond within seven days. On 7th October, I was invited to attend the Committee’s hearing with an indication that the Cabinet Secretary and his team would be attending to respond to that particular Question, but then I was shortly advised that they were not ready. When we came here and ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with tremendous respect to the Vice-Chair, this is information that is strange to me. I have even spoken to the Chair severally, including this morning, and there has not been any indication to me that there has been any response at all, adequate or inadequate. Certainly for me, I have not seen any. So, the indication is that there was some shoddy work which was returned. I am a stranger to those statements. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to ask Question 398 of 2021 directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide the status of construction of the Luanda- Akado-Kalandin Road (RWC 119) under low volume seal tarmacking in Rarieda Constituency, which stalled at Nyandiwa Bridge, with only approximately 4.8 kilometres remaining to completion? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary state the total amount of money that was allocated for the road, the amount already paid to the contractor and the outstanding amount, if any? (iii) What action does the ... view