Rt. Hon.(Eng) Raila Amolo Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 891 to 900 of 1732.

• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Census results that were released by the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 the other day show that there are more women than men in Kenya. So, why would a Kenyan man leave all those women and go and get a fellow man to marry? So, that was propaganda and besides, the Constitution says that you are allowed to marry a person of the opposite sex. It also says that abortion is not permitted. The process of public educations is going to start. It is going to be done county by county so that ... view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Dr. Nuh and Eng. Maina are both concerned about Ministers issuing contradictory statements. That is basically because of misinterpretation of certain provisions of the Constitution. That is the reason why, sometimes, you find one Minister stating one thing and the other, another thing. There is something that I want to say which will apply to the concerns of Dr. Nuh, Eng. Maina and Dr. Khalwale. But before I do so, I want to inform Dr. Nuh that, as a Government, we are going to discuss the issue of rendition and come out with a position on it. With regard to ... view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: But we must accept that we have changed the structure of governance in this country. At the moment, all Ministers are Members of Parliament elected by the people. This House decided to remove hon. Members from the Cabinet. In other words, they voted themselves out of jobs! If hon. Members agreed not to remain in the Cabinet, why should it be so difficult for us to say: “You are not going to be a chief. You will be a clerk or something!” view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Let us accept that the structure of governance in this country has changed with the passing of this new Constitution! view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: We must, therefore, begin to move on. Let us look at other countries which have no chiefs or DCs but they are all working. We do not have them in Germany. I have just come from there. We do not have them in the USA. So, we have a responsibility as the House to ensure that this Constitution is implemented in letter and spirit as it is. We must begin with ourselves as hon. Members by liberating ourselves from the shackles of the past. I know that we want to take Kenya where all the people of Kenya want it ... view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you very much! view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for moving this Motion on time, so that we can provide funds for the Government so that its activities do not come to a standstill by 31st June, 2010. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am fairly amused by the intervention by the former Minister for Finance who served in another era altogether, when it was never mandatory to give us the breakdowns. Those days, it was only 50 per cent. Times have since changed. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was trying to basically confirm what the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has said. He has said that the first charge goes to the CFS which are statutory requirements. These are commitments already made by the Government and must be paid, unless the Government is seen to be insolvent internationally. All that I was trying to say is that what we are doing here is not something that is strange. It has always been the practice that Vote on Account is usually 50 per cent of the total Budget. That, therefore, allows Parliament to ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said that, I want to go further and elaborate on what I said yesterday to Members of Parliament at a consultative meeting regarding the relationship between Parliament and the Executive. The Executive cannot spend money unless it is approved by Parliament. This budgetary process is not a ritual. It is a very important function of Parliament and the Executive.Without Parliament approving allocation to the line Ministries, they will not be functional. But we do provide these funds so that the Executive can provide services to the people. These funds will ensure that medicine can ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in some isolated cases, Parliament has acted in vain. This has tended to hamper the implementation of projects. We have had cases here, and hon. Members are aware, where questions are raised here regarding procurement; whether it is purchase of equipment or award of contracts or tenders. The losing contractor in a tender would go behind the scenes to contract services of Members of Parliament to come and raise Questions here that there is some kind of corruption or money has changed hands and, therefore, the Government runs the risk of losing a lot of ... view