Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 801 to 810 of 1732.

• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to make a Statement on Kenya’s economic competitiveness. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that the notice did not go out to hon. Members on time. I want to apologise for that communication breakdown. Mr. Speaker, Sir, and hon. Members of Parliament, in my Statement this afternoon, I would like to discuss our country’s competitiveness, namely our ability to attract private investment, expand exports and thus attain our goal of accelerating economic growth and sustaining it to more than 10 per cent. Higher economic growth is necessary to create jobs for Kenyans, particularly the youth, ... view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, the Constitution requires substantial strengthening of public institutions, including the Judiciary. The latter has, indeed, been a major bottleneck in creating confidence in investors that any dispute will be resolved fairly and swiftly. The Constitution upholds access to adequate education and health care as the Bill of Rights for all Kenyans. The Constitution requires realization of these ideals. Finally, let me touch on the issue of corruption. We all agree now that corruption is a cancer that has plagued our nation since independence. The Constitution demands high standards of leadership and integrity for ... view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The hon. Imanyara of course, read the Economist and he is fully aware of the assessment. His concern was about increasing the CDF. The country will not develop purely on the basis of allocating resources for CDF to constituencies. We have now agreed that we are devolving and the structure that we have is a devolved system of Government. We have devolved now to the counties and resources are going to go to the counties; a minimum of 15 percent. Depending on how the capacity is going to be built, those resources will be increased ... view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not contradicting myself. At the time when I asked Ministers to step aside, some investigations had been carried out. In the case of Mr. Samoei there was a PricewaterhouseCoopers Report, which had been published and which, therefore, said that they needed more investigations to be carried out by KACC. So, that was a very different situation I was talking about. What I am saying today is that somebody will wake up in the morning and just say so and so has been involved in corruption and wave some document. I am saying that, that is ... view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, frivolous and vexatious is what the hon. Member is talking about--- view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The hon. Member for Lamu West was concerned about the high cost of energy and wanted to know when we will go nuclear. We have a very comprehensive programme on green energy, which includes nuclear energy. We are not just looking at nuclear energy. We are looking at others like geothermal, wind, solar and bio fuels in order to not only reduce the cost of energy, but also to go the route of clean energy. We are now very concerned about global warming and environmental degradation as a result of burning of fossil fuels. We ... view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, actually, I was concluding. All I was asking the hon. Members is to stop encouraging lamentations about lack of employment in Government institutions and parastatals. That is because those positions are not vacant and even if they were all filled, it would still not solve the equation of unemployment in our country. view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I apologize to the hon. Member. I want to tell him that because of the rush by Eng. Maina, I omitted his last question. Yes, the Government is concerned about congestion and it is doing something. The hon. Member will have noticed that there is a lot of construction work going on in the City. This is also part of the cause of the congestion that we are experiencing currently. But the Government is expanding the road network in the country in order to de-congest the City centre. There is a lot of traffic at the City ... view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not challenge the ruling. I simply commented on it view
• 10 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Hon. Yinda wanted to know what conditions the Government will put to foreigners who have come to invest in the country, and whether those foreigners will offer shares to local citizens. I know that in some countries, it is mandatory for foreigners to offer shares to local citizens. I am not quite sure whether that, itself, has advanced the economic development of the people in those countries. We know that partnerships are negotiated freely in a free enterprise society. So, we encourage our citizens to enter into joint ventures with foreigners who are coming to invest in our country. But ... view