Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. First of all, I want to thank the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and his team for doing a very good job. In this Report, Parliament is exercising its function as a watchdog. Outside there, there are a lot of misconceptions about the role of Parliament and a number of people take advantage of this. We find that Members of Parliament are blamed outside there, for responsibilities that are not theirs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for example, we find that when roads are poor, no medicine in ... view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: 620 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 12, 2007 view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was talking about the issue of the contract for the construction of customs houses at Loitokitok which was awarded at a tender sum of Kshs44 million. By the time they were over, the contractor was demanding more than Kshs1.4 billion. I was just saying that this is one of those cases where there is a collusion and the tender sum is completely immaterial. Eventually, the intention is to use those projects to fleece the Government. The Government needs to take a thorough audit of particularly two departments: One, the Office of the ... view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will ignore it with the contempt that it deserves. view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, unless the Government tells the Attorney-General to desist from just laughing and smiling all the time, and take serious action about offending officers in his Ministry, this issue of corruption within the Government is going to continue. view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, His Excellency the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs, of course, knows this because he is a neighbour of the Attorney- General and he always smiles with him. But I am saying that--- April 12, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 621 view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to tell His Excellency the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs to tell the Attorney-General that, like the Bible says: "There is a time for everything", there is a time to laugh and a time to weep; there is a time to give birth and a time to bury, and so on. So, the Attorney-General must know that there is a time for him to roll up his sleeves and be serious. I am saying so because the problem is right inside his Ministry. I have evidence of an incident which I drew ... view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a case of somebody who tendered to supply the Government with stationery at a cost of Kshs35 million. When his company was unable to supply the stationery, the contract was cancelled. The Government then re-advertised the tender and this company participated again in the tendering process. But this time, it lost the tender and it went to court challenging the cancellation of the original tender. The company was awarded some damages to the tune of Kshs75 million. That money was not paid and kept on piling as pending bills and interest. By the ... view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: There is no will to fight corruption! Corruption is happening on a daily basis and this Government is losing millions of shillings. It is estimated that out of the total Government revenue every year, 30 per cent goes down the drain; it is fleeced! 622 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 12, 2007 view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: That is a lot of money, particularly for a Government that came into power on the platform of zero tolerance to corruption! I, myself, became the first victim. I exchanged very bitter correspondence with my colleague when he was protecting some of these people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I talked about these pending bills, before the report was released, the Chairman of the Pending Bills Committee was summoned to the Treasury in the office of the Minister, where he was confronted by two contractors whose names were adversely mentioned in the report which had not been released. He ... view