Eng. Philip Okoth Okundi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion concerning the health of our people. I want to begin by congratulating the Minister and her Ministry for doing a good job. This Minister is extremely visible. She has been visiting people at their places of work. I have also seen her, in several parts of the country, talking about health matters with women who are participating in water and sanitation projects. This is what one needs to do at the level of a Minister. view
• 31 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: You need to be politically visible and tell your people what your Ministry is doing, and then her staff can follow her example. I think this must be said. Many times, as Members of Parliament, when we are commenting on a major budget like this one, we do not try see that the success of such an allocation depends very much on the person at the top; how that person dispenses the duties vested on that work. With regard to that, I wish to congratulate the Minister. The Government has done a good thing. The Minister and her people have ... view
• 31 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was talking about water and sanitation. The Minister has allocated Kshs150 million in this Budget for water and boreholes in the various health facilities. view
• 31 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Please, protect me; there is a lot of noise from that corner. view
• 31 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge that these funds be used as much as possible, particularly, in areas where water is badly required. In each health facility which has been put up by the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), you find that water, fencing and other facilities are essential in order to operate those health facilities. So, this is a good budget and I hope that it could be increased as we go along. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the medical training centres, hon. Members from South Nyanza agreed to contribute from each constituency Kshs500,000 per year, to help ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I appreciate that the Ministry is doing a lot to put electricity in the rural areas, there is something that I wish to ask the Assistant Minister. Why is it that a number of contractors have been contracted to supply electricity to the rural areas and that one contractor has several contracts and they just seem to be dropping poles and then leaving the contract lying? This is happening in my constituency in a number of areas where they have agreed to give us electricity but it is taking a year before the actual connections ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a moment to comment on this very important Motion. The Government, through the Ministry of Roads and Public Works, has been given over Kshs62 billion for roads in this country. This is a very major development. I think the House has acted very well to approve it. We can see that almost all the areas of the country are being touched in one way or another. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I would like to ask the Minister and his officers to do is the following: We know the long procurement ... view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to ask the Assistant Minister to extend the sweetness to my constituency. A number of contractors have been contracted to implement the rural electrification projects. However, several projects have been awarded to one contractor who seems to just be dropping poles and disappearing. Although there is a lot of sweetness in that other constituency, in my constituency and in many others, there is just a show that something is being done, but nothing is really being done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister promise that these projects will proceed with the same speed ... view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report on the Orphans and Vulnerable Children Committee on Parliamentary Partnership for Africa's Economic Development in the Framework of NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) under the auspices of the rotating European Union Presidency for sustainable Economic Development for Africa held at the Finish Parliamentary New Hall Annex F, on November 23 to 24, 2006. view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The world over today, there are a lot of measures being discussed in Parliaments about the future of orphans and vulnerable children, who have come about as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In this Parliament, you know that we formed a Committee on Orphans and Vulnerable Children, which I have the honour to chair. There are a lot of fora in the world today discussing this same subject. What is required is that Government should decide budgetary allocation, which will support the orphans and vulnerable children, because many of them do not ... view