Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

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• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I am not so sure this is a neat way of doing the amendments, on two accounts: One, it is discriminatory. Secondly, it will be cumbersome for the examination board to keep on undertaking a head count of who is employed and who is not. I think we need to look for a neater way, probably by way of a regulation that the Minister or whoever is in charge can do a regulation on how to govern the rest. This is discriminatory and it is going to be cumbersome to determine who is employed and who is not. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, why would you ask those who are employed to pay and ask those who are not employed not to pay? What if somebody makes a choice to refuse to be employed so that he/she mischievously refuses to pay? We must apply the Constitution uniformly - the Bill of Rights. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Yes. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended in the proposed amendment to the Scrap Metal Act, 2015 by deleting the proposed amendment to Section 30. The justification is that there seems to be a misunderstanding because the inspector that is referred to is appointed under Section 29 (1) of the Scrap Metal Act and refers to a person appointed by the Cabinet Secretary and who has adequate training in metallurgy or a related field of study. The proposed amendment is thus misplaced and should be deleted. I thank you. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: 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
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Speaker. Most of my colleagues are potential inmates. When we used to run around and “eat” teargas, they used to laugh at us. The other day, when a small teargas canister was thrown in Murang’a, I saw everybody running away. I wish they could have brought that canister to Busia. We would have shown them how to handle teargas. It is important that we move away from the mentality that prisoners are bad people. People go to prison for various reasons. Staying idle the whole day from Monday to Friday can be torture to a human being. That ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to make the first contribution to this Report by the Departmental Committee on Health. view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Having read through it, listened to the Chair and the Vice-Chair and schemed through the amended version, it breaks hearts in this country. The COVID-19 visited us just like it visited other parts of the world. We had some bit of time to prepare to attack or defend ourselves from this invisible enemy. The frontline workers were the health workers. As I stand here today, having listened to various media outlets, I can authoritatively say without any doubt of contradiction that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: this country has let the health workers down. Simply because of selfishness, we did not care and corruption has become a top priority in this country. What happened at KEMSA ought not to have happened in a sane sober mind. Those who defrauded KEMSA and took money from there are Christians, Muslims or adhere to various faiths. This, indeed, is a wake-up call if a Christian can steal from the dead or the sick. If anybody who purports to believe in God can steal from the sick, that, indeed, is a shame and indictment of how we perceive morality in ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the amendment by Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal. Indeed, the substantive wording of urging and resolving is a grey area in this House. If you urge, it means you are just talking. You are just making a statement to entertain yourself and do the rest of the other things. If we say we are resolving, because this is the National Assembly, the national Government is compelled by the Constitution and other laws to implement whatever we will have resolved. Whichever way they want to implement it and however long it takes to ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. I stand to support the Petition by the Governor for Uasin Gishu County. Indeed, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, as we know it down there, is the only referral hospital covering the entire former Western Province, the entire Nyanza and most of the Rift Valley. To this date, if it has not received conditional grants, it is indeed an indictment on the national Government. We must move with speed to remedy this problem. As of today, I have had to transport two patients from my constituency to get admitted because all the other ... view