Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion for adoption of this Policy Paper. As I do so, I take this opportunity to congratulate my colleagues who have been appointed to the PSC. I wish them well and hope that they will take good care of us. I also wish to take exception to the remarks made by the Member for Kikuyu. I must say that I sympathise with him. He went to school. Some of us went to an educational centre called Starehe Boys Centre and School, and we are extremely proud about it. I ... view
• 22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Secondly, the UN Habitat defines housing in terms of its affordability. The demand side of the equation arises from two perspectives, namely; per capita income and the cost of accessing housing finance. The Member for Alego Usonga has alluded to the fact that the amount of finance devoted to housing in this country has been low compared to other economies of equal size. This problem arises from the high appetite for domestic borrowing that the Government of the day has. The Government cannot be seen to be competing with its own people for financial resources from commercial banks. The Government ... view
• 22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: The other issue that we need to lay emphasis on is the building or property rights. I have heard the Chairman of the relevant Committee mentioning something about high cost of acquisition of land intended for Government projects. I just hope and wish that the impunity we have seen elsewhere will not be allowed to pervade into this sector to an extent that an individual is deprived of his rights over land and housing simply to allow the Government to undertake projects. That is why we have the Land Value Index Bill, which will come before Parliament. I can assure ... view
• 22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: The other area which seems to have been disregarded over the years is rural housing. Many of us have always believed that rural areas have no housing challenges. I can assure you that in many places in this country, the rural folks have a challenge of housing. On many occasions, we have been called upon to assist in construction of houses for the elderly, the disadvantaged in society and persons living with disability. I would have wished that the Government and the said Department of Housing and Urban Development looks beyond urban dwellers and generally tries all it can to ... view
• 22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With those few remarks, I beg to support this National Housing Policy. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First of all, let me take this opportunity to congratulate the Committee in charge of this subject matter because, at least, they demonstrated they have the ability to look at things seriously and consult widely. I must also admit that the Bill is timely, coming in time to replace the old Bill. However, there are a few observations that come out very clearly even though we will be dealing with most of the issues at the Committee level. The first issue is to take exception to the remarks that were made by the Leader of the ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: so-called Jubilee Government has built roads in this country. I would invite the Chair with his Committee to tour this country and see the open discrimination that has been perpetrated against some parts of this country. I want to say categorically that for many years, there has been only one road in Busia County. It took the intervention of the then Vice-President, Hon. Moody Awori, for us to get the road connecting Mayoni, Funyula and Budalang’i and the one connecting Mumias with Busia Town. To date, in Funyula Constituency, we only have one road of less than 12 kilometres yet ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is nothing to withdraw. I have invited the Committee in charge of roads and transport to tour this country and do a comparative study. We cannot just keep on hiding the truth. We do not owe anybody an apology. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for your guidance. Now that my minutes have been taken away, I hope you will be kind enough to allow me to consume my time. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I want to concur with quite a number of my colleagues. We seem to have so many bodies and so many authorities in the roads subsector; they are merely a duplication, a waste of resources and generally confusing. I want to give you an example. You go to the constituency trying to explain to the ordinary voter the difference between the roads for KeNHA, the roads for KURA, the roads for KeRRA and those of the county government and it gets extremely confusing. My suggestion is that the drafters and the committee need to consider collapsing some of these authorities ... view