Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: History is important. You cannot disregard it. Those who go around pontificating or telling us that history does not matter are self-serving. They do not mean what they say. If you have no history, you can never have a future. If you do not remember the present, you cannot have a future. The present will be history tomorrow. Therefore, it is important for all of us to document what happens in this country, and to continuously remind our children and grandchildren where this country has come from. The western world takes so much pride in the history of their countries. ... view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion. I will talk to the Leader of the Majority Party to see if the Motion can be amended, so that the final version can reflect the correct context of the matter. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to sincerely thank the Chair of the Committee for bringing us to speed on the matter of disbursement of NG-CDF funds. If there is any Fund that is so dear to the people of Kenya, it is NG-CDF. If there is any fund that has made tremendous changes on the people of Kenya, it is CDF, especially in the education and security sectors. I am mostly perturbed by the allegation that arrears of 2021 have not been captured in the Supplementary Budget. Projects relating to that period had already been approved. Various ... view
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Report of the Committee and acknowledge its recommendations to appoint Ms. Wangui Elizabeth Muchiri for approval by the National Assembly. It is important that a few obvious and glaring issues are raised in this House for record purposes. Kenyans need to appreciate the process that everybody goes through. 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
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: First of all, the SRC was established to bring sanity in the welfare packages and remuneration of public servants and all those who draw salaries from public funds. While the intention was to rein in the ballooning wage bill, the Commission has in the past few years been used as a tool to fight some sections of public servants in this country. Of course, the soft target has always been members of the legislature. Nevertheless, we have come to accept and surrendered to their whims. view
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the law requires the National Police Service to be represented in the SRC. Therefore, the process of appointing a member to sit in the Commission is clearly set out in the Constitution, the Act and the relevant laws and Standing Orders of the National Assembly. Going through the Report, the number of Kenyans who applied for that one position was staggering. There were 80 applicants. The shortlisting committee shortlisted seven persons, that is, Wangui Elizabeth Muchiri, Dr. Julius Ochieng Olayo, James Ikumbu Ngului, Patrick ole Nkuraiya, Dr. John Wakhungu Masinde, Maina Njoroge and Dr. Billow Khalid. ... view
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: The long and short of what I am trying to say is that this was a very clear case of setting your judgement. This was a clear case of setting your own exam, doing it and marking yourself. If you look at the composition of the panel, you realise it was their own panel! It would, indeed, even be easy to conclude - as many Kenyans have always said - that even before most of these jobs are advertised, the eventual appointee is already known. It is just a hopeless process to sanitise because the eventual appointee is already known. ... view
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Secondly, looking at the report it is clear that during the interview there came up three fundamental issues affecting the NPS and the servicemen and servicewomen who serve this country diligently, day and night. Number one is mental health. I would have imagined the NPS should have gone for somebody who has got the expertise in mental health issues and not communication. The problem facing the NPS is not communication. For the NPS, it is mental health, poor housing and uncompetitive salaries. Looking for somebody with a communication background reinforces the view that this was an advertisement in futility. The ... view
• 8 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: that is why you hear of endless murders and suicides. You post a policeman in far flung areas, he leaves a family with a young wife for two to three months. As my aunt normally tells me, a woman is not a stone. You will come and dump her there for three to four months. You will have gone, but she has got feelings. That is why if you interrogate many of these killings deeply, they are about love affairs gone wrong. I know everybody appreciates that the revenues are low and the budgets are tight but the kind of ... view
• 3 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand here as a Member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. I am also a Member from Busia County, one of the biggest cotton growing regions of this country, and which for many years used to grow a lot of sisal. When the Regulations were presented before the Committee, we were taken aback on two or three issues. The way the Regulations were drafted seems to have favoured cartels in the industry and have actually killed the industry. More tellingly, the Regulations were presented to us last year yet public participation was undertaken ... view