Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I understand but because this is--- view
• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not talk about a political system in Equatorial Guinea. That may be a subject for another day. I talked about exploitation and utilization of mineral wealth in Equatorial Guinea. Over that, I have no regrets. I will give that as an example any other day. This is because I have been to other countries which are oil rich. I have been to Nigeria, which is now the second biggest oil producer on the continent after Angola. However, if you go to Lagos or Abuja, you will find long queues of people waiting to get petrol, ... view
• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the end part of it was politicking, which is allowed. However, the two are not in contradiction; importation of 400 megawatts from Ethiopia and constructing a 300-megawatts wind power station around Lake Turkana are two different projects. As I speak today, we have managed to increase our generation capacity from 900 megawatts when we came to power to about 1,500 megawatts. In other words we have added 600 megawatts in the last five years. However, this is still peanuts if you look at it against the requirements of Vision 2030. Our consumption here is still equivalent to ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. There are two questions which have been raised by two Members of Parliament. One is the hon. Member for Kamukunji, hon. Yusuf Hassan Abdi who asked the Prime Minister how many official trips the Rt. hon. Prime Minister had undertaken since his appointment in 2008 and how much money has been spent on transport, air tickets and accommodation. The hon. Member for Samburu East, hon. Letimalo had asked whether the Prime Minister could provide a list of official foreign trips made by the President, Vice President, the Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers and Assistant Ministers since ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, the President, the Prime Minister, the Vice President, Ministers and Assistant Ministers are Members of this august House. Their class of air travel and the rates of their subsistence allowance while on official travel outside the country are set by the Parliamentary Service Commission. The Government has issued a directive to all its departments to apply the rates set by the Parliamentary Service Commission. That circular is available here. I will make it available. For travel by other Government officers, their class of air travel and subsistence allowances are set by the Ministry of State for Public Service ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as part of the ongoing austerity measures, the Government has imposed the following measures for official travel outside the country. (i) Limited official delegations to a maximum of three for general missions and six for missions to negotiate financial agreements for funding of development programmes. Should there arise a need for the delegation to be larger, authority should be sought from the Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of Public Service. (ii) Government has rationalized class of air travel as follows. 1. All Cabinet Ministers use First Class. 2. Assistant Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Parastatal Heads ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have provided information for 37 Ministries. Only three Ministries are outstanding to get the global figure. In the same breath, I had been asked also to raise a question here that we also need to get information about how much Members of Parliament have used in their foreign trips. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it can be available as early as next week. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Two weeks is fine. view