Tom Mboya Odege

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 81 to 90 of 116.

• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: At the outset, the figures given here as the statistics we currently have in the Government are not even half of the people suffering from diabetes in this country. I will try not to repeat what my colleagues have said but first allow me thank my sister, Hon. Obo for what she has pointed out here. This is a real condition we are facing in this country but it is a clear pointer that we have been living in denial as a country when our people are suffering. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The truth is we are leading a sick population in this country and we have not come out clearly on how we can avert this challenge that is before us. When you look at the health system in this country, we have about three diseases which can be avoided and contained, diabetes being one of them, but we have not done much as a country to ensure that everything is brought in conformity with the policies which we need to guide the treatment in this country. Diabetes is not a killer disease but has been made in this country a ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Let us re-examine the health system which we have in the country currently as being managed by the county governments. I can authoritatively tell this House today that we are failing as a country when it comes to the management of diabetes, hypertension and cancer. All these diseases have made our people to suffer. We intervene very late. We cannot afford early intervention because of the resources we have in this country. It is high time we looked at our health system. If all these diseases cannot be contained at the earliest time possible, we need to come and review ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: can state it authoritatively, is that those Kenyans suffering from this disease and are not known are double this figure. They are suffering down there and nobody can reach them. These cases have never been reported anywhere and yet we talk about half a million people when we know over a million people are dying in silence. The people who have come out to report their cases or go to the facilities for treatment are very few. In rural areas, such people come out when it is too late and the drugs are too expensive for them. So, as a ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I support the Report, I am a bit worried after listening to a Member of the Committee. We have a list of names without any indication of the regions they come from. We are now hearing it from a Member of the Committee that regions are not balanced. My good friend, Hon. Sankok, judged the proposed members to the Commission by name and said that there was regional balance. A Member of the Committee says that regions are not balanced. Looking at the names in the Report, there is no indication ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs: a) Is the Cabinet Secretary aware that Kenyans were arrested in Lake Victoria on the night of 5th November 2018 under unclear circumstances by Tanzanian authorities and are currently being detained in Musoma, Tanzania? b) What steps has the Ministry taken to end the continued harassment, arrest and detention of Kenyans? c) What is the status of the findings of the Joint Border Survey Committee set up by the governments of Kenya and Uganda on boundaries of the two countries around Migingo Island? view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I was preparing for the next one on Health. view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. As much as the Leader of the Majority Party is somehow right, I would like to go back to what Hon. Tonui has said. This is a life experience in our country and we need not wish it away. Majority of Kenyans who attempted and took loans to do business in the county governments are all out of business. If you are in this House truly to protect Kenyans, let us support Hon. Tonui. It is going to heal a big wound in this country and shall restore the confidence of Kenyans in doing ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Currently, no one is willing to do business with the Government because we end up doing tenders for which there is no money. Instead, we take loans which are not serviceable and people have been auctioned because of that. I support the amendment proposed by Hon. Tonui. view