Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the interest of national unity and for the benefit of our colleagues from that region, I unreservedly withdraw and apologise. There was no harm meant. It was a pun. view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: As I was saying, some areas are far flung. It takes a long time to travel to the national tallying centre, which presumably will be Nairobi. Waiting for the physical appearance of the presiding officer or the returning officer will delay the announcement of the proclamation of the results. We must find a way where we can expeditiously return the forms to the national tallying centre so that we are able to declare the winner of a presidential election. Delaying declaring presidential election results brings a lot of anxiety to the country and to the supporters, and is a precursor ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: The second issue I need to look at is Clause 21(2), which proposes that the Commission shall make regulations for the better carrying into effect the provisions of this Section. We have less than five months to elections. Any regulations made by the Commission must be approved by this Parliament through the Committee on Delegated Legislation. I am at pain to understand how that is possible and how it will be done so that we actualise the amendments that we have made here. Is it that we are going to go into an election whereby the Act, as amended, will ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Finally, in Clause 23, they have made a capping to the effect that any appeal and petition arising out of an election for member of county assembly will end at the High Court. I am not so sure that this is really in the best interest of the litigants or it is to avoid unnecessary wastage of the court’s time and moment. However, indeed, we should allow all petitions maximum latitude. Complaints about county assembly seats are as important as complaints about other elective seats because the county assemblies play a very important role in devolution. Appeals about county assembly ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, despite the fact that you have asked Hon. Sankok to withdraw some line of argument that seems to have no basis at all, he seems to continue in the same line of argument, which is surely disrespectful to the Office of the Speaker. He could be suffering from selective memory. He does 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
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: not remember that there was post-election violence in 1992. He selectively remembers a few and not all of them. This is the tragedy of Kenya’s politics. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 10 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Committee on Delegated Legislation on its consideration of the Public Finance Management (Sinking Fund) Guidelines, 2021, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 21st September 2021 and pursuant to the provisions of Section 13 of the Statutory Instruments Act, 2013, annuls in entirety the Public Finance Management (Sinking Fund) Guidelines, 2021 published as Gazette Notice No.5085 of 2021. view
• 10 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the guidelines provide for the redemption of Government bonds specifically in the redemption of stock of Government debt, cushion for amortisation of liabilities arising from debt, facilitation of debt restructuring and smoothening of maturity profile, building up resources for meeting maturities of loans and securities issued in the domestic and international debt capital market by ensuring resources are available for the redemption of maturing debts to alleviate roll over risks and buyback of national Government loan obligation in the debt market and further meet the cost of switches and early redemption of national Government loan obligations and ... view
• 10 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Section 50(8) of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act 2012 grants power to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, to establish by way of regulations approved by Parliament, such sinking fund or funds for the redemption of loans raised under the Act by the national Government. The CS, therefore, ought to have made the regulations in respect to sinking funds which were supposed to be approved by the National Assembly by way of affirmative resolution. The publication of guidelines are, therefore, in contravention of Section 13(a) of the Statutory Instruments Act. The National Treasury invoked Article 214(1) of the Constitution of ... view
• 10 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: provide for charging of all or part of the public debt to other public funds while Clause 2 provides that for the purpose of this Article, the “public debt” means “all financial obligations attendant to loans raised or guaranteed by the national Government”. It was indicated that while Section 50(8) of the PFM Act provides for the establishment of a Sinking Fund for the redemption of loans raised under the Act by the national Government, the loans defined by the PFM Act 2012 includes both internal and external loans. Consequently, there is need for the repeal of the General Loans ... view