Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 181 to 190 of 1732.

• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: While the South Sudan has expressed her willingness to abide by the UN Resolution 2046, the Sudan insists that the security issues should be resolved first before negotiations can commence. The KDF is actively engaged in peace keeping operations in Dafur under UNAMID and in South Sudan under UNAMISS. It is in the security and economic interest of Kenya that peace prevails in the region. Continued instability in the region undermines Kenya’s economic opportunities for trade and investments and imposes heavy budgetary demands on the national treasury. We have already seen some of the refugees beginning to flock back to ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member for Mt. Elgon was concerned about internal security. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did say that the situation in Somalia is posing serious problems within our own borders. That is true. He went further to ask what steps are being taken to install facilities that will help to track down terrorists within our cities. That is a matter that the Government has taken very seriously, indeed. I would like to inform the hon. Member that we have now acquired about US$100 million which is going to be used to install CCTV in our cities, starting with Nairobi. We are going to start the installation almost immediately. That is ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want the hon. Member to also know that Al-Shabab has been a more complicated enemy to deal with. That is because they recruited our own youths; our own boys and then trained them. So, you do not know a typical Al-Shaabab by the looks. That is because Al-Shabaab can be anybody. It can be Mr. Kapondi’s brother from Mt. Elgon. It can be Mr. Koech. It can be a Mr. Kamau. It can be a Mr. Rashid Onyango. It can be anybody. So, that has made the work of our security forces much more complicated. ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Hon. Mohamed Hussein wanted to know when the Kenyan Mission in Mogadishu--- view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with you that, that is not a point of order. But all the same, he is seeking further information. I want him to know that this is a grant from the Government of the People’s Republic of China. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: The hon. Member for Mandera East wanted to know when the Kenyan Embassy in Mogadishu is going to be operationalized. I want to say “operationalized” because we do have a mission. We have recognized the Transistional Federal Government of Somalia. So, it is a question of operationalizing the embassy. For quite sometime, the security situation was such that it was dangerous to post our staff to Mogadishu. So, the reason why the Embassy has continued to operate from Nairobi is purely as a result of the security situation in Mogadishu. We have continued to review that, given the fact that, ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Hon. Dr. Nuh wanted to know about the cost of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) mission in Somalia. I mentioned that before our troops were rehatted to join the AMISOM in Somalia, it had cost us a total of Kshs7.5 billion. By rehatting, the agreement is that the money that has been spent by the Kenya Government is going to be refunded by the UN to us and, henceforth, the cost of maintaining those troops in Somalia is being footed 100 per cent by the UN. So, it is costing us nothing as a country. He further went on to ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, the truth need to be known that when we started training for Al- Shabaab, we were very clear that we were training for Al-Shabaab Somali, Somalis, and not Kenyan Somalis. They were asked to provide their staff for training by our forces here. Unfortunately, maybe, because of lack of employment, some of our own Kenyans also went there and posed as Somali Somalis and got themselves recruited into the training. When that became apparent, a purge was done and a number of those young Kenyans were removed from the forces. But in that kind of ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Midiwo was concerned about the timelines. His view was that we had overstayed our welcome in Somalia. I want to assure him that, first, we were not invited; we went to Somalia out of need. That is why the operation was dubbed Operation Linda Nchi . We are in Somalia in order to protect our country and secure our borders. So long as the situation in Somalia is not resolved, there will continue to be the need for our troops to be in Somalia. We are there searching jointly with the rest of the international ... view