Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me also take this opportunity to wish the Hon. Member who have spoken a happy birthday. However young she is, you never ask a lady her age. It is against our custom. So, we assume she is always 16 years old. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, all of them are always sweet 16. I also stand here to support the Committee’s Report, but obviously, like many of us and quite a number of Kenyans out there, we are disappointed at the skewed age of the appointees. Yes, it is granted that the job of an Ambassador, a High Commissioner or a diplomat is purely a technical job that requires a lot of experience and requires you to command respect amongst your host country, but honestly speaking, almost 70 per cent of the nominees were born in 1960s. This was before independence, and probably, that ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Even if you look at the East African Community (EAC), we are starting to have challenges. Our relationship with Tanzania is bad. Similarly, from our trade between Uganda and Kenya where we have been the biggest trading partner, our volume of exports to Uganda has continued to dwindle. That is because of failed diplomacy, trade negotiations and the rest of the ideas. We just hope that the just concluded deal between Kenya and the United Kingdom (UK) is not going to disorganize other trade arrangements that we have with the European Union (EU) member states. Therefore, the issue of diplomacy ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Report of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security in respect of how police handle Covid-19 cases as they do their work in their police stations and how they handle the whole process. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: At the outset, it has become apparent that the police, by virtue of the role that they were given to enforce the curfew and health protocol, have become the first responders and the front- liners. Unfortunately, the nation or the country has made no efforts at all to train, equip and change the mindset of the police. They forgot questions of social distancing, they forgot the question of face masks, they forgot the questions of hygiene and the police believed that guns and military fatigues were a cure or the preventer of the spread of coronavirus. There is overwhelming evidence ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: minutes to the curfew time, collect all the so-called curfew breakers, lump them in one vehicle, congest them to the brim and take them to one cell irrespective of the health conditions of those that have been arrested. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Obviously, with this behavior and with this approach, we are not going to win the war against the unintended spread of Covid-19. Many of us shudder now that there are fresh instructions that were given yesterday by the President, where he directed the National Police Service, National Coordination Committee and the notorious city council enforcers, city council askaris to arrest and molest people who purport not to have complied with the protocols. It is going to be a tough job and if we are not careful, we are going to escalate infections in this country. I just want to ask ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: All that we are asking Hon. Koinange is this: Sit with the IG and explore the practicality of enforcement of the protocols. We sympathize with the police because they are the most vulnerable. But you must also sympathize with the local mwananchi who is going to become collateral damage. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. I stand to support the Agreement. Thank you for giving us time to peruse it in details, so that we can debunk some of the misinformation that had been peddled here or elsewhere out there. This is something that has been with us for many years, since 1962. Therefore, it is something that I would believe is an upgrade or a continuity. I do believe that for all those years, it must have served the two parties well and that is why they have considered to renew the same. Coming from the names, ... view