Peter Ochieng Odoyo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 171 to 180 of 314.

• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the Post Office or the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), PIC has recommended clearly that these people have sold land. They have not only sold land, but they have bought satellite equipment at ten times the market value. They have signed contracts going several years at over-priced and over-inflated prices. Those who are benefitting are in this Government; satellite transfer, sale of land. The recommendation by the PIC is to, please, bar; please, recover, but the Minister continues to say: "I have written to the Attorney-General", as if that is, indeed, ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: I am much obliged, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will try to use parliamentary language by saying that those who continue to misappropriate funds from public coffers with impunity. In this, lies the main subject that I want to refer to; the key word, "impunity". Why impunity? Because one says: "We have taken over law courts! The man in law courts is our man". Impunity! Endelea mbele! They will say: "Ooh, the man doing investigations is our man! Endelea mbele! " Impunity! They say: "Ooh, the people who do prosecution at the Attorney-General's Chambers are our people!" Impunity! The ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is impunity that we, Kenyans, are afraid of, because we tried during the colonial times when our people were raped; they were raided and stolen from with impunity by the white man! The white man's burden, indeed, has become the black man's burden. But who is this black man? He is not necessarily a Kikuyu; he is not necessarily a Luo; he is not necessarily a Kamba. Who is this man, who, indeed, is able to rape Kenyans of their public coffers? This is the man that we have to go after. He is ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: They have a salary in this House and we should not wait for the Ministry to go and recover. When the person has a salary here, we should merely, through a check-off system, deduct the money and take it to the Ministry. view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe that we were talking about a Parliamentary organ or Committee called the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). It is on that--- view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am only pointing out that we are sitting here and judging our own peers, fellow hon. Members, if, indeed, we have called them to the Committee and they admit that they owe that money, we should not have to wait for him to go to a court of law or for the Ministry to go to a court of law. We should, indeed, at that point recommend to the Clerk through the Speaker that, that money should be chopped off from their salary and forwarded to the relevant Ministry so that we are able ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I accept your observation. I will, therefore, approach it from a different angle. If Parliament is to present an honest and legitimate face to Kenyans, we must be harsh and righteous to our fellow hon. Members as we are to those who we are vilifying on the Floor of this House. This Committee has mentioned hon. Members. It has mentioned my own Vice-Chairman in my party ODM, Mr. M. Kilonzo. It has mentioned Messrs. Shakombo and Wetangula. It would be proper that, at least, some Committee of the House is able to determine where some ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I seek your indulgence that as and when, you, as a Commissioner, will be looking at the new Standing Orders, that with the weight being here, the issue of us being able to be as tough on fellow hon. Members as the others, would help us elevate the level of this House in the eyes of the society. I pointed out Mr. Wetangula. There is also Mr. Dalmas Otieno, who as also been mentioned. Just to make sure that the Minister for Water is not accusing me of practising tribalism, Mr. Dalmas Otieno is, indeed, ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). That is also at the heart of what I would like to criticise PIC Report for. The PIC reports, while they have been able to focus extensively on the financial aspects of many of these parastatals, there are many mitigating circumstances that PIC needs to focus on. One of them, of course, is management. For example, does the PIC ever interrogate whether some of these Chief Executives deserve to be CEOs? Someone who has been put to run an engineering firm may turn out to have been a ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support. view