Dr. Paul Otuoma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Just like in the security area, in the past three years, this administration has recruited over 20,000 young people to protect our country. I congratulate the President for doing that. Let us go beyond that and see what other security challenges we are facing. In this era of global terrorism, we need to improve the investigative ability of this country. This will enable us to prevent crime, instead of recruiting more people to fight crime. We fight crime because we have allowed it to grow and we will recruit people to respond to it. Our intelligence should try to make ... view
• 14 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: I have been a victim of lack of forensic equipment in the Anglo Leasing issue. We have not been told how this will be corrected. Looking carefully again on the issue of infrastructure and corruption, I thought with President Uhuru’s background, he should not be suffering from scarcity mentality. This is a President who is ideal to make sure that Kenya is corruption free. Look at what is happening. It is like he is lamenting. He said he has given the courts 360 cases and they are letting him down. We all know that we cannot vet the Judiciary forever. ... view
• 14 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: This county was humiliated by our leaders being dragged to International Criminal Court (ICC). Remember at that time we were saying let us have our own local mechanism. Up to date, I do not know whether it is there so that the country heals and we get structures that support it. On the economy, I want to tell His Excellency the President that Kenya’s economy is founded on a skewed policy. If you look at it carefully, this is an extractive economy while we should be talking about an inclusive economy that supports growth in this country. But it is ... view
• 13 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also stand here to support this Bill which has been proposed by our good friend, Hon. Jude Njomo. If you look at the objectives of this Bill, it is trying to address inequities in societies like ours where you find institutions that should be promoting creation of wealth are basically extractive. They just extract wealth from this country and do not share with the Kenyan people. If you look at the interest rates in the banks which my colleagues have already talked about, theirs is just to mobilise resources from poor Kenyans. Instead ... view
• 13 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: We have banks in an economy that is struggling and an economy from where industries are moving away because of high cost of doing business. One of the major contributors of this is banks because you have to work through these institutions. To crowd the extractive policies, even the people who have been given the mandate to ensure that these institutions have the confidence of Kenyans are conspiring to steal from Kenyans. If you look at the banks that are collapsing, and we have interacted with some of them through these Parliamentary Committees, some of the issues we raise are ... view
• 13 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Ten days later, you find that big transactions have been carried out. The banks will come to these Committees and say how they are not even aware of such kind of things. You call it inside job, but as somebody was putting it, some of this is just deliberate theft and these people are still walking around free. For example, the case of Dubai and Chase banks, this is already in public domain. We questioned some of these people about their financial diligence under oath and they lied to this great National Assembly. They lied and they are still walking ... view
• 23 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I oppose this amendment because we know that all actions come from policy. If you are going to look at documents just in terms of numbers or expenditures without really looking at whether the policy objectives are really being fulfilled through those expenditures, then you will not be doing any merit in terms of auditing. For example, today we have the laptop project, which has been a major flagship project for--- view
• 23 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I oppose this amendment because we know that all actions come from policy. If you are going to look at documents just in terms of numbers or expenditures without really looking at whether the policy objectives are really being fulfilled through those expenditures, then you will not be doing any merit in terms of auditing. For example, today we have the laptop project, which has been a major flagship project for--- view
• 23 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: That laptop project really ran into a lot of issues just because the policies that were put forward were all wrong. It allowed people who had evil objectives to come forward and try to do procurement. So, if you are an auditor and you already see that a policy was formulated without proper thought or benefit to the public, you can also give an opinion and say: “Yes, the objectives of these policies were wrong because they never achieved what was intended for the public.” It has happened in so many other jurisdictions and so many other things in Government. ... view
• 23 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: That laptop project really ran into a lot of issues just because the policies that were put forward were all wrong. It allowed people who had evil objectives to come forward and try to do procurement. So, if you are an auditor and you already see that a policy was formulated without proper thought or benefit to the public, you can also give an opinion and say: “Yes, the objectives of these policies were wrong because they never achieved what was intended for the public.” It has happened in so many other jurisdictions and so many other things in Government. ... view