Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: board. You cannot tell us that we are going to pass regulations that were drafted in 2014 and you want them to be superimposed and apply to the modern Kenya in 2022. As we annul these Regulations, we need to send a very clear message to the regulation- making authorities that this House or the Committee on Delegated Legislation is not a rubberstamp. We have a right, a moral obligation and a constitutional right to protect the interests of Kenyans of whatever shades of life. Therefore, as you prepare any regulations, you must be alive to the provisions of the ... view
• 3 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. After entertainment from the good lady from Mbita, it is now time to make a few comments. The amendment to the Copyright Act is timely. Our young people, who have been very innovative in music and other things, have been mistreated, exploited and undermined. Many of us love music. However gloomy you are, when a nice song is sung or hummed, you will certainly nod in appreciation. I come from a constituency where there are budding musicians and artists. When you walk around or invite them for functions, you feel sorry for them because ... view
• 3 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, many of us who are professionals earn a living from what we do, which is what we went through in school. We compensate many people who masquerade as tenderpreneurs and hustlers, and yet they are thieves. They are corrupt. Artists are hard-working and talented. It is such a shame that senior politicians cheat young people with stories akin to pyramid schemes and yet they cannot even afford to support the young artists to better their lives. view
• 3 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: When we, as legislators, get the opportunity, we must legislate. Legislation is done here. It is not done in the streets by giving people wheelbarrows and stories on how they will get rich from stealing as opposed to doing something. It is time this country appreciated the good work and efforts of people who are talented and mean well for this country. view
• 3 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill. view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As we have always said, the source of corruption is normally at the budgeting level. That is where the money to be stolen is normally inserted. Most importantly, corruption is initiated at the tendering stage; the so called procurement stage. This country has made a lot of progress in terms of reviewing and underlining the procurement laws and regulations with the changing circumstances and with the changing international practices. As we have always said, a good idea must always give way to a better idea. Any time there is an opportunity to review legislation, ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Government is being undertaken at Kshs1.7 million and yet, a similar classroom under the NG- CDF is being procured at Kshs950,000. Many are the times you clash with the locals to an extent that they believe that you want to damage their businesses. We do believe that with those market surveys, any procurement decision will be based on prevailing rates of construction or service deliveries. We do believe that market surveys will be objective enough. We might probably have to make an amendment so that we provide the mechanisms on how to undertake market surveys and any form of a ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is the dilemma that this House faces as it has been expressed by the substantive Speaker. I guess that is why we were pushing for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) – so that Cabinet Secretaries or Ministries, whatever they were going to be called, can sit in this House and answer Questions properly. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it has now become the norm. Cabinet Secretaries are fond of dodging Committee sittings and sending Chief Administrative Secretaries, who cannot be questioned thoroughly. The Statement, as long and verbose as it is, literally has nothing of substance. ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: mischief they are trying to do, nobody ever knows. With this Government, you never know what it is all about. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to speak to the issue of public participation. They mention the Taskforce Report on Parastatal Reforms that began during the era of Hon. Mwai Kibaki. Hon. Mwai Kibaki left office in 2013 and these changes were being made in 2020. Honestly speaking, you cannot use public participation done in 2001/2002 to purport to be carrying out public participation. That is a threat and you are actually subverting the provisions of the Constitution. In ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me appreciate the Chair of the Committee for that splendid Report. Of course, I just want to persuade him, plus the leadership, that balancing 2020/2021 is critical. Those projects were already identified and committed for. Quite a number of schools or institutions that were supposed to get those projects are already asking and it is becoming a problem. The sooner the Supplementary Budget comes the better, so that the money can come in. We need to get it out of our way. For some of us who are also 100 per cent sure of ... view