Richard Onyonka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have a problem with my card, but I have been informed what to do. The matter that I wanted to raise has actually been handled. I want to apologise for interfering with the debate. view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I would like to pass my congratulations to the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee who has tirelessly, for the last two months, been going around and chasing many of us to attend the Budget discussions on how the resources of our country are going to be shared and what the Executive has asked us to do. view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Issues that have been raised in the BPS are outstanding. The Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee have done an outstanding job. I also want to thank the Executive, namely, the Cabinet Secretaries, who come over and over again to discuss with us matters regarding the BPS and particularly how the resources are going to be distributed around the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: country. In the process of looking at what the BPS discusses, there are certain gaps which I think we need to start looking at. For example, the Jubilee Government has frequently said that a number of roads were going to be tarmacked. In fact, the number goes up to about 10,000 kilometres. view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: I wish the CS would come up with a clear description and definition of the roads to be tarmacked. We must allocate resources for these roads for the simple reason that, year in, year out, we spend resources murraming roads and when it rains we murram them again. We have to be brave and decide whether we are going to tarmac our roads even if it is just five kilometers per every constituency. That is something we must do because it will create jobs at the local level and optimism in our country. It will ensure that we deliver what ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Secondly, I am happy that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Department of Defence have been allocated enough resources. We hope they will use these resources effectively and ensure that we get value for money. Finally, just the way my colleague has talked about the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), Members of Parliament need to wake up and realise that by the time we reach June this year, chances are that nobody would be talking to us in this House. It is better we follow up on our matters so that by January, when we come back, we ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: The Cabinet Secretary (CS) must consider seriously that the Members of this House are very passionate about the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and would like to ensure that the resources that have been allocated to go to secondary schools and all the other facilities are available. I want to thank them for ensuring that at least NG-CDF funds are now with the NG-CDF Board and the only money that needs to be interrogated is that allocated to secondary schools in our constituencies. With those many remarks, thank you Hon. Speaker. view
• 22 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I need your guidance on a substantive matter. As you may be aware, I belong to the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Close to four months ago, through this House, we made several visits to different countries where we interrogated what had been happening in our embassies there. There are reports which were done a long time ago. They were supposed to have been tabled about two months ago. I am not seeing the Chair or the Vice-Chair here. I would like your guidance as to what we can do because some of ... view
• 22 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I need your guidance on a substantive matter. As you may be aware, I belong to the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Close to four months ago, through this House, we made several visits to different countries where we interrogated what had been happening in our embassies there. There are reports which were done a long time ago. They were supposed to have been tabled about two months ago. I am not seeing the Chair or the Vice-Chair here. I would like your guidance as to what we can do because some of ... view
• 22 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am actually being very diplomatic. The Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations seems to have a problem where reports have been completed because the information they may have is not be very good. It includes misuse of public funds and cases where people who were supposed to be retired are still working and many of them are doing all sorts of things. That is why some of us in the Committee believe that the report is not being tabled on the Floor of the House. view