Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

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• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, while it might be in vogue to support the deletion of that Clause, let us paint a very practical situation. The Board will collect funds, but it will not expend them immediately. There will be a time lag between when the funds are collected and expended. Keeping that money in the bank is even riskier than putting it in Government securities which are gilt-edged and have zero risk of failure in recovering the money. We need to rethink about it; it might be popular and driven by historical fear. But the fact of the matter is ... view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the amendment is a composite one, so to speak, involving several sub-sections. The issue of pricing under the pricing committee involves consultation with stakeholders. It has nothing to do with being out of context as my colleague from Trans Nzoia was trying to insinuate. It clearly relates to matters that require consultation with stakeholders. We are giving the Board the power to enforce. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, probably, the import of the amendments to the parent Bill and the amendments here is… view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: I am not a member of the Committee, but I attended the winnowing session. I, therefore, more or less own some of these amendments as a group. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the import of the amendment is to basically make a policy statement to the effect that since sugar-cane farmers become the main sufferers in the event of any mismanaged company or any publicly owned company being privatised, we give our local farmers 51 per cent shareholding and the rest of the shareholding can be taken up by anybody else. It is a policy consideration aimed at empowering farmers because they are the owners of sugar-cane and the land. Therefore, they must benefit from their sweat and hard labour. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As the Chair continues to consult, let me admit that I sat in the winnowing process. This was our thinking and the Member for Tinderet was very clear. The general practice in this country is that any tribunal belongs to the JSC. Here we are hostages of our own procedures. I totally agree with my colleague that if we delete this particular clause and the new clause we are proposing does not go through, what happens? The flip side is this: If we leave it the way it is and then we pass the ... view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, he needs to go on record and that is an area that we had a lengthy debate on during the winnowing meeting. The issue is practicability. I clearly said that I sit in the Committee on Delegated Legislation. I know the procedure of making subsidiary legislation. Even as we stand here, I am almost certain one year is not adequate to complete the process of stakeholder engagement, public participation and bringing forth the regulations. That is why I am willing to go for one year because it puts pressure on the regulatory making authority to move ... view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I seek your guidance because I want to move it in an amended form. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Let me move it as it is and then you will give me guidance because it was just a typo that we noticed today, but we did not have time to make the necessary changes. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chair, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 36 and substituting therefor the following new clause— Transfer of staff. No. 13 of 2013 “36. (1) Upon the commencement of this of this Act, a person who was a member of the staff of the former Kenya Sugar Board before the commencement of the Agriculture and Food Authority Act, and current staff of the Sugar Directorate not being under any notice of dismissal or resignation shall, upon commencement of this Act and subject to subsection (2), become a staff of the Board on ... view