Tom Mboya Odege

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 111 to 116 of 116.

• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Secondly, before we concentrate on treatment, how do we go about creating awareness so that we can avoid contacting cancer in our country? An example is my constituency. When you go to mining sites in my constituency, there is still wide use of mercury in the area. We have made a lot of noise but the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is sleeping. I even talked to the NEMA people but they are not doing enough to help us eradicate mercury usage in our country, which means a good percentage of our people are still exposed to cancerous bacteria and ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Irrigation Bill and the creation of an authority. I am a Member of Parliament residing in Nyatike Constituency where we have a scheme called the Lower Kuja Irrigation Scheme where the Government has invested Kshs1 billion. I want to raise a concern about availability of water. Even though we have two permanent rivers crossing our constituency to discharge their waters in Lake Victoria, we do not have a reasonable dam to sustain that scheme. There is a proposal by the Government to create a dam which would ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: and nobody is following up the matter. When we talk about tapping water for irrigation in this country, the Government must be ready to make people account for the money that is allocated for such projects, otherwise we should not be talking about becoming food-secure. Talking of food security, we have enough land in this country. One of the Members has talked about 70 per cent of land in Kenya being fallow because we have not made good use of it. If, indeed, we are pumping money to make people turn to agriculture for the sake of securing this country ... view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to first make my maiden speech. I know it has been long, but after resisting, I had a number of petitions in Homa Bay which have interfered with my being here. Nyatike is a constituency bordering Tanzania and Uganda, in the lake. I am happy with the Motion that is here today because Nyatike, being one of the constituencies bordering these two countries, has a number of challenges. Our main preoccupation or source of livelihood has mainly been fishing, but the industry is currently dead because of interference from our bordering countries, mainly from ... view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I want to assure my people that during the period I am going to represent them here, I will do my best to make them proud as Kenyans and ensure that the flag of Uganda will no longer be in my constituency again. I want to pray that the boundary of Kenya and Uganda be clearly marked, the way my brother Amolo Otiende has said. It is a real problem because our 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
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: fishermen in Nyatike have their sale in Uganda not in Kenya. The Kenyan police have really failed to bring sanity in the lake. view