Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I must commend the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health and the Ministry of Health for the splendid job they are doing of managing the national anxiety resulting from the the Coronavirus pandemic. She has given a good flowing Statement which in many cases would probably be called a theoretical framework. But the reality on the ground is completely different. I speak for Busia County and I can tell her categorically that, as of today morning, any test related to Coronavirus is being conduct in KEMRI, Kisumu. The so called KEMRI in Busia is just ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I concur with Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal. The fear most of us have currently is that the fight against COVID-19 is being militarised. It is turning into a police state and he needs to come out very clear. I thought contact tracing should be the reserve of the public health because they can tell and conduct tests on the spot to see whether it is worthy quarantining or not. Probably, he needs to come out very clearly so that he puts those issues to rest. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I am seeking clarification from the Chair of the respective Committee because in the published Bill, the prescribed limit had been set at one million which seems to be very reasonable in view of the circumstances at the moment. He needs to give us the justification they used to reduce it to Kshs500,000, which in essence beats the purpose of ADR as proposed in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. We need that clarification. I will still go for the one million that was in the original Bill. Thank you. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I stand to support the Committee’s proposed amendments, especially on the taxation on fishing nets. I come from a fishing community. The other day the Government changed the fishing gear. People are grappling with acquiring the new fishing gear. Therefore, introducing taxation was going to be a killer blow. Do not punish us for Corona virus, we did not bring it to the country. Thank you. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I support the Committee's amendment, especially on the LPG gas. We are moving away from local fuel and so we need to embrace the LPG gas in order to save our forests. As you can see the erosion of forest cover and floods are devastating many parts of this country. I support. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, in respect of this amendment to the Tax Procedures Act, probably the matter is in court and I need your guidance. Look at the Keroche matter. The longer it takes the more you punish either party because imagine your accounts have been frozen and you are literally unable to operate. Giving such a long period of time not being able to operate for two consecutive months, you are literally actually grounded and you might even contravene quite a number of contractual obligations you have more so say salary payments. Probably the Chair needs to explain a ... view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I just want to bring to the attention of the House a comparative industry to what we have with Kenya Railways. Within the sugar industry, there used to be what we called the Sugar Development Levy. One of the things that has led to the collapse of the sugar industry is when 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 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: this SDL was given to private firms. When we get a report in this House that the levy from the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) needs to be given back to these people to operate, it does not make sense. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: I want to join my colleague Hon. Nassir who stated that this levy cannot, without substantive data provided to this House on how their operations have been hampered over this period… Let us not just use this COVID-19 as an excuse for the Government to use money haywire. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I once again want to reiterate that, first of all, let me thank my senior colleague, Hon. Kioni, for spearheading the issues that relate to Article 100 of the Constitution of Kenya by bringing us a Bill in respect of the same matter. Secondly, we also need to go on record that many of us were extremely disappointed. Some of us received very many calls from our constituents complaining that we have very many Hon. Ladies in the House, but they were only countable - not more than four - to spearhead and push the confirmation ... view