Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. On behalf of the people of Funyula Constituency and Busia County, I send our sincere condolences to the family of Hon. Simeon Nyachae. Many of us remember him during his days in the Public Service, ranging from being a District Officer to a District Commissioner and a Provincial Commissioner. His way of doing things was legendary. Many provincial administrators, right from the chiefs and assistant chiefs, would tremble on hearing his name being mentioned anywhere. He was part of the discipline that characterised the two regimes of the First Republic of ... view
• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the people of Funyula, I send my sincere condolences to the family of my former colleague, the MP for Kabuchai. I met Hon. Lusweti when I joined Parliament and we served with him in the same Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. Indeed, he amazed me with his humility and his story of coming here. He demonstrated that you can rise from being a councillor and became a decent man to sit in the august House. I also happen to have shared with him the same Fund Account Manager, and we consulted ... view
• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I do not wish to contribute to this Bill. You can pass the chance to somebody else. Thank you. view
• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, let me say that I support the proposed amendments to revert to the tax regime that existed before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit Kenya and the world at large. As we debate this, there are a few issues that we need to put in mind. The first issue that we need 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
• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: to consider and clearly ask ourselves is whether Coronavirus is likely to go away very soon. The answer is likely that it is not going to go away very soon. We must have to adjust. view
• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope you will add me my minutes. You have disrupted. As I was saying, COVID-19 is going to be with us for many years to come. As a country and the world, we must adjust ourselves to COVID-19. When the President made the request to reduce the taxes, in my view, it was obviously just a hope therapy. It was essentially a therapy. We knew all along that it was not sustainable. It was not sustainable to lose that revenue that has been estimated, from VAT alone, to be Kshs50 billion. This country cannot do ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As much as I support the first Petition, probably I will just restrict myself to the issue of the legality of the Co- operative Society. It might be important that the Petition also enables us to discuss, investigate and find out the circumstances under which the Society or the Co-operative was de-registered. On the second Petition and the first one, the issue of land grabbing, so-to-speak, or inappropriate allocation of land, started in earnest around 1992. It went on up to 1997. That is the watershed period that probably the Departmental Committee on Lands and the ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the adoption of the Charter on Democracy. Democracy is the hallmark of a modern society. Democracy means that every man has a say; the majority have their say, but the minority must also be listened to. The issue of democracy in Africa has been a case of study for many years. Indeed, the just concluded elections in Tanzania give a glimpse of the mutating face of democracy in Africa. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: The ongoing campaign chaos in Uganda gives a glimpse on how people or Africans regard democracy. So, as we stand here today, Kenya is a member of the democratic society and, therefore, it behooves it to subscribe to the Charter. As we do so, we must not lose the fact that Kenya has gone through a turbulent period in an attempt to adhere to democracy. Prior to the removal of Section 2 of the Constitution, Kenya was more or less a one-party State, that the KANU regime never allowed any form of opposition. But with the repeal of Section 2A, ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: of Kenya. Thereafter, our attempts on democracy and the will of the people has ended up falling short of expectations. That is why you find that in the 2017 election, the Supreme Court observed and clearly ruled that the elections were not held in compliance to the law and democratic tenets. view