Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1471 to 1480 of 1534.

• 26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, as much as the proposals made by the Leader of the Majority Party are sound and responsible in the circumstances to safeguard national security, we must appreciate that the owners of the land adjoining any so-called safeguarding areas should be allowed as per the Constitution to develop their land subject to some reasonable planning regulations instead of being inhibited to develop the land to the fullest in regard to the highest and best use. view
• 26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Again, I believe those who are in this practice of real estate and development are aware that one of the reasons we have so many unplanned developments in this country is that the cost of getting approval has been found to be prohibitive. Even an advert in the newspaper costs a substantial amount of money because it must reach as many people as possible. Secondly, when you need to print the necessary adverts and place them all over, it costs money. If you have to assemble the people, it also becomes a problem. Remember there is also a provision under ... view
• 26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support and with your guidance probably we could expand and include other significant security installations. I look, for example, at the CID headquarters. I do not know if in the wisdom of the Leader of the Majority Party it is included. They are obviously controlled centres in terms of ICT and related issues. I do not know whether at this point in the legislation making we can expand that definition to include quite sensitive security installations from scrutiny by the planning processes. view
• 26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman for this opportunity. My only concern is that planning as a discipline has very specific terms used all over the world. I feel in as much as we want to localise our planning procedures and practices, there are some honoured terminologies which we should not tamper with. Probably, we can retain the term “regional plans” but then redefine it in the context of our local situation. view
• 24 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. As much as I support the amendments to the Bill, I am at a loss. Probably I have not clearly understood the rationale of having less than a quarter of a kilometre square. Probably the Chair of the Committee would be kind enough to explain further. Why not a kilometre? Why not two square kilometres? What is the scientific rationale of quarter of a kilometre square? Alternatively, I would request that they consider leaving the setting of the exact area to be covered to the Authority that is being established under this Act so ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is an opportune moment that I have to speak after the Member of Parliament for Mwea. I must admit that I was intimately involved in that project before I came here. As I rise to support this Bill, there are a few fundamental issues in the irrigation process that we must interrogate as a country and put right. The issue of compensation cuts across irrigation schemes and other Government projects. We must address them as a nation and comply with the constitutional requirements. Compensation must be fair, just and prompt. For record purposes, the valuation ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: In this country, we have not had lack of legislation and rules, but we have had a problem with implementation. It is unfortunate that many people who are entrusted with the responsibility to manage those authorities go there not necessarily to serve the people, but generally to squander or enrich themselves at the expense of taxpayers. If we do an audit or evaluate the performance of most of those authorities, it is dismal. Therefore, it is important that the new authority being proposed here is strong and capable of meeting the mandate and the provisions of this particular Bill. It ... view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you for this opportunity, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to oppose the Motion as currently drafted and presented in this House. I probably want to sympathise with the drafter of the Motion because he might not know the history of this country. Those of us who have been in this country for some time – those of us The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: who were around during the clamour for multiparty politics – know the need of not curtailing the freedom of expression and the freedom of association. view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The framers of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 were people of good faith, good meaning Kenyans who knew exactly where we were coming from and where they intended to take this country. When they inserted Article 37 that allowed for freedom of expression, the right to picket and demonstrate, they were not doing it out of malice or ignorance; they knew where we have come from. For record purposes, if by any chance we did not have demonstrations whether violent or not, we would not be talking about the freedom we enjoy today. Those of us who were around in ... view