Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: . I am sure that village elders have got a very crucial role to play in society in bringing peace, mediating conflicts and so on. Therefore, they deserve certain amounts of remuneration. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Shabesh wanted me to repeat this Statement in the Cabinet. Cabinet deliberations are confidential but the hon. Members of the Cabinet are here. I want to assure her that they all support the Statement I am making here. Thank you. view
• 26 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the County Commissioners were appointed but those appointments were subsequently nullified by court. Since the appointments were nullified, they should revert back to the positions they were previously occupying. So, in as far as I am concerned, there are no County Commissioners today in Kenya. They are pretenders to the throne. view
• 26 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said - and I want to repeat - that, following the ruling by the court, the Attorney-General, who is the Chief Legal Advisor to the Government, advised the Government that he was not going to appeal against the judgement. The Attorney-General has not appealed. Secondly, the question of whether or not the Government should appeal against the court ruling has not been discussed and resolved in the Cabinet. So, whoever has appealed has done so in their private capacities. The Government has not appealed. So, they are pretenders. view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I have given direction that the Managing Director of KAA should not be harassed by the Board or anybody else. I would like to inform the House that this matter is still being dealt with by the Cabinet and that the Cabinet has not taken a decision on the issue of the Greenfield Project. The matter was referred to a Committee of the Cabinet which has looked into the matter and is going to report back to the Cabinet tomorrow. I also want to inform the view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Question is, why has the Board of KAA sent the Managing Director on compulsory leave after he appeared before three Joint Committees of Parliament investigating the Airport Greenfield Project. That was the question. I have said that if that is the reason, I have given the directive that Mr. Gichuki should not be victimized by the Board. Having said that, I did not in any way intend to slight the role of this Parliament or its powers. What I am saying is that the Constitution provides for a clear separation of powers between the ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member who has just spoken was until very recently a member of the Executive, and is privy to a number of other secret Cabinet deliberations. I want to inform the other hon. Members that there are certain ways in which the Cabinet deals with issues emanating from various line Ministries. They come to the Cabinet through memoranda which are dealt with by the Cabinet. In this particular case, the matter was referred back to a Committee of the Cabinet, which is called “the Infrastructure Committee”. The Committee has investigated this matter and is ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to repeat for the hon. Member to understand; that there are ways in which the Cabinet operates. I have said that this matter was referred to the Infrastructure Committee of the Cabinet. That Committee carried out its own investigations. It set up a taskforce consisting of experts, both technical and legal; to investigate the way this tender was handled and dealt with. It was seeking, for example, the opinion of the Attorney-General. After evaluation of all that information, that taskforce then gave a recommendation to the Committee of the Cabinet. So, that ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, after the matter had been discussed here, I did have an opportunity to actually draw the Speaker’s attention to the fact that this matter was still not concluded. If it was a matter before the Judiciary, we would have said that it was sub judice. I do not know how you will deal view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a purported cancellation of this contract that drew the attention of some hon. Members. But following the purported cancellation of the contract, a communication was made to the KAA Board that this matter was being dealt with by the Cabinet and, therefore, the Board had no powers or authority to act on it until the matter was resolved by the Cabinet. Yes, I agree that, that is what probably drew the attention of the House and that is the reason questions were being asked here. But, basically, the Board was informed accordingly and ... view
• 12 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you could not be more right than saying that the hon. Member is flogging a dead horse. You usually bury the dead horse and not flog it. I have already stated that--- view