Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1501 to 1510 of 1534.

• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: We also need to look at reclassification. We have had so much money pumped into county governments. I can say without fear of contradiction that in some of the counties, Busia County being one of them, the amount of money that has been allocated to roads has been minimal. The feeder roads that were supposed to be opened by the county governments have generally remained unattended, or they have basically been badly done to a point that they are of no use. The Council of Governors need to demonstrate what they have done with the amount of The electronic version ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: money they have received even as they ask for another allocation. Some counties have done fairly well, but for others, I can say without fear of doubt that they have done badly. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: The issue of the road designs is important. We passed a Motion in this House sometime last year calling for setting up of dedicated lanes for the purpose of road design. We were told that when it comes to the review of the Roads Bill, we will incorporate the same. Unfortunately, I have not seen that provision in the law. Obviously, once we pass the law, it becomes cumbersome to change it. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: The other point of concern is the issue of the amount allocated to the current KeRRA now being called KNSRA. My view is, we need to follow the route of the National Government Constituencies Development Funds Act. We need to expressly provide for a constituency roads committee. Leaving it to regulations and benevolence of the Cabinet Secretary is to put into trouble the roads that are recurrently under KERRA or KNSRA. As it is now, the committee is all about regulations and we know regulations do not have the full force of law. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I also want to raise the issue of compensation. I think the Constitution of Kenya and the Land Act No. 6 of 2012 is expressly clear when it comes to compensation. When you go to Clause 42, there seems to be an indication… view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Clause 42(c) seems to suggest that there is another way of compensation other than the one provided for under the Constitution and the Land Act No. 6 of 2012. I request the Committee to basically align that particular clause to the Constitution and the relevant Act. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the Adoption of Sessional Paper No.3 of 2017 on the National Policy on Climate Finance. I grew up in an environment where climate change was never a topic of discussion because everything was predictable. The environment was also clean. Lake Victoria was clean. The water draining into Lake Victoria from River Suo and River Nzoia was clean. Over the years I have lived on this earth, I have traversed the breadth and length of this country in my professional practice and, indeed, I have come face to ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: exceptional note and become passionate about the issue of the environment, and as a Member has said, become compassionate. In a span of less than 30 years, my constituency, Funyula, has become food deficient. In 1970s and early 1980s, we had harvests that would run from one season to the other. This is because we used to have two predictable rainy seasons. It would rain between March and July. We would comfortably harvest and have enough to last us to the next season. It would, again, rain between September and late November. We would then harvest, again, in December and ... view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I come from a region that tried to embrace sugar farming, and a county that has been promised a sugar factory many years back but which has not been established. In my previous work as a consultant, I was involved in the report concerning privatisation of the five publicly owned sugar factories. This is a country that operates on discrimination and isolation. For many years, we have been told that the Jubilee Government would revive the sugar industry. Those sentiments are highly echoed towards election and nothing happens thereafter. People are left to suffer ... view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I lost my chance to Hon. Bunyasi. Thanks for being kind enough to remember me that I am still in the Chamber. I stand here to contribute to this Motion, having lost one of my constituents in the pile up that happened yesterday. His name is Mwalimu Rajuayi. I condole with the family. Early this year, I lost another constituent in the same area. It is we, people of western Kenya, who probably suffer most in the Sachangwan accidents. Probably, if you look at the trend of accidents, there seems to be an emerging ... view