Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did say at the outset of my Statement that this Statement was after extensive consultations within the Government, including His Excellency the President. So the Statement is the official Statement of the Government of Kenya. The Member for Ol Kalou, Mr. Mureithi, was concerned about the management of the value chain. In other words, Mr. Mureithi was revisiting the subject of price controls. He was saying that the Government needed to introduce the framework with which to intervene in order to control prices. However, we did say that this is now a liberalized economy, and that ... view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: And drought--- view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry if I tried to respond to the hon. Member before he completed his point of order. However, I understood what he was concerned about. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that was about the drought situation and I sincerely sympathized with the hon. Member’s constituency because I have been to the ground and I know the suffering of the people which we have tried to alleviate. In my Statement – I do not know whether the hon. Member listened carefully – I said that we will declare drought and famine a national disaster very soon. view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Mutiso--- view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Kiema Kilonzo--- view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes my eyes synchronize with the sound around me. When the hon. Member asked the question, he was sitting on this other side, and then he went to this other side. I am only seeing “Mr. Mutiso” here. view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know Mr. Charles Kilonzo very well. I did not mean that he was Mr. Mutiso. I am very sorry. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I basically confused “Mutito” with “Mutiso”. view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, having done that, I apologise to the hon. Member for Mutito, Mr. K. Kilonzo who was actually suggesting that we reduce the size of the Government and I could not agree more with him. He went further to say that hon. Members should cut down their sitting allowances and I would like to hear that from the hon. Members who are here. view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, reducing the size of Government does not necessarily mean reducing the numbers of Ministries. However, I agree that we need to cut down on some expenditures of the Government. That is why in my Statement, I said that we need to be frugal and prudent in our expenditures so that we only spend in areas where it is absolutely necessary and cut down on waste. That is what I mean; that we look at the budget and see where savings can be made so that we fund the very needy activities in our economy. If we do ... view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Member for Imenti Central wanted to know how soon these policy measures will be implemented or how soon is soon? I have already said that the Memorandum is before the Cabinet and it will be approved in the next sitting of the Cabinet. It will then come to the House for discussion. The Member for Kinangop wanted to know what long-term measures we are undertaking. The long-term measures are contained in the Statement that I have issued here. How, for example, we will introduce subsidies in order to target particularly the poor and vulnerable in our ... view