Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also stand to support the Petition by the Woman County Representative for Busia which is my County. In Busia, our big concern are teachers with their unpaid pension. Half of the time I am in Nairobi, I spend my time chasing after pension for teachers and others from various Government departments. It is like you are going to a dead office. You will be tossed from one point to another without much help. They have continuously said they are procuring a pension management system. I say so because I sit in the Public Accounts Committee(PAC) ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am a member of the Committee and I stand to support the VAT (Electronic Tax Invoice) Regulations 2020 published as Legal Notice No. 189 of 2020. In the endeavour of Kenya improving on the ease of doing business ranking in the world, there has been need to continuously review the process and procedures involved in invoicing and collection of taxes. All along, there was a regulation in 2004 in respect of electronic tax invoice but, due to the challenges, the same was abolished and that is why the CS in charge of Treasury ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: In reviewing these particular regulations, the Statutory Instruments Act literally limits the mandate of the Committee to various issues. One is to confirm whether there was public participation. Secondly, to confirm whether there was a regulatory impact statement. As part of the team, we confirmed there was adequate public participation in view of the nature and type of regulations at hand. The main purpose of these regulations is to standardize the generation of tax invoices so that wherever you go or wherever you are, it is standardized and is of the same style and nature. It is envisaged that this ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to speak on the village elders. All of us here must acknowledge that village elders actually do the donkey work in the sub-locations, locations and various devolved units. It is extremely unfortunate that they commit their lives and time, yet there is not even a token of appreciation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the most interesting part is that village councils attached to the village administrators get some allowances. The question village elders attached to the assistant chiefs are asking is: If they are serving the same Government and people, how come members of the village council are being paid some honoraria, yet they who serve the national Government, which has the biggest share of the national revenue, cannot even be appreciated? As Hon. Baya said, the Budget and Appropriations Committee has a duty to this House to bring a report. It is Parliament that makes and approves budgets. It is ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will be very brief. I am a Member of the Committee and I associate myself with the comments made by the Mover and the proposer, suffice to know that I just want to make one clarification so that it is clear. As my colleagues have continually said, over time, we have developed a system of selling or buying items online with existing tax regime systems for local sellers in the digital markets yet we have lacked a mechanism to tax international companies and those that do not have a physical address in this ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Law of Succession (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly No.75 of 2019). I must commend Hon. Kaluma for bringing this Bill, which is probably informed by his experience and history. That is why we need Members who have experience and interest. When the Bill was published and read the First Time in this House, I subjected it to public participation to the people of Funyula Constituency. I regret to inform the House that majority of them, whom I represent in this august House, have difficulties in accepting ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: No, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to finish. I do not want to be informed. view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to conclude my presentation. Those are the challenges that we must address. Second or third, is Clause 3(b). It is too wide and impractically impossible. I want to echo the sentiments of my party chair. Many of us as either politicians or ordinary human beings support too many children. We support too many families out of philanthropy and generosity. We have no intentions at all of them becoming family members or fall into the description of truly a dependant. Personally, since I got a job, I have paid school fees for too many children. ... view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Constitution of Kenya states that there is no State religion for the Republic of Kenya. So, do not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view