Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1501 to 1510 of 1537.

• 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
• 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