Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1151 to 1160 of 1732.

• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this meeting was held at the request of Members of Parliament from those particular communities. They requested for this meeting. They asked that before the Report of the Task Force is taken to the Cabinet, view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I reluctantly table this list! view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this directive was issued by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance during the Budget Speech last time. This matter is being enforced by the Ministry of Finance. I have therefore, directed the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to answer this Question tomorrow. view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will answer them. view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Affey asked why the President and the Prime Minister have not travelled the country. I want to tell him that the President and the Prime Minister have travelled the country. We have been around the country so what I am talking about is not just what you have read in the papers or what is written by Ministries. It is something that I can vouch for. That is why I was talking with a lot of conviction because I know that what I am saying is real. view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Mungatana has said something and I want him to know that I share his views that it is a shame that 40 years after Independence we should still be importing food and talking about wanting to be food secure or self sufficient in terms of food production; and that we should still be depending on rainfed agriculture when, in fact, the knowledge has been there all the time. We knew that rainfed agriculture is not sustainable. Egypt has no rains: It never rains in Egypt. Most of Egypt is a desert and yet Egypt depends on just one river, ... view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: It is basically to empower the small scale-farmer by providing him with farm implements, quality seeds and fertilizers so that the yields are increased three or fourfold. Within a period of three years since he started, he transformed Malawi. That was the selling point in his elections two months ago. That is why his opponents could not beat him because he had fed the people. People were just touching their stomach when we met him in Malawi. So, we can do it! But I want the hon. Member to rest assured that this is exactly what we are trying to ... view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: We are going to revive them. We are going to launch a 40,000 hectares irrigation project for which funds have been made available in this year’s Budget, of Kshs2 billion. We are reviving Perkerra, Ahero, Mwea and all those other irrigation schemes and not only that, we are doing more! We are going to construct new ones as well. view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we could do more. We are moving but there were constraints because there were commitments which had been made in the previous view
• 22 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Ruteere talked about NEC, NEMA and whether there is conflict of interest because the CEO of NEMA is also the Secretary of NEC. I do not think so because NEC is like the board that generates policy. Then NEMA implements the policies formulated by the board. The Secretary does not vote in the board, but it is always necessary for those in the management to participate in the board so that they can be able to understand and implement the policies formulated by the board. In some cases, managing directors act as secretaries and ... view