Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 861 to 870 of 1534.

• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this particular Motion. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I sit in the Committee on Delegated Legislation and had the opportunity to interact with the regulatory-making authority both at the pre-publication scrutiny and the subsequent levels of discussion. What baffled me was the blatant disregard to procedures in enacting these particular regulations. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Having said that, let me focus on the fundamental issues that persuaded most of us in the Committee to without any misgivings recommend for the annulment of these regulations. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The framers of the 2010 Constitution envisaged a situation where our society continues to have vulnerable members who might not be able to access finance and capital for various business opportunities and development projects. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Consequently, Articles 55 and 56 talk about affirmative action for the youth and other marginalised members of the society. It is in that wisdom that the framers of the Constitution laid much emphasis in providing access to all available opportunities to the youth and vulnerable members of the society. The initial drafters of the Regulations, the Uwezo Fund, the Youth Enterprise Fund and the Women Enterprise Fund had in mind to segregate these groups, so they can be given special and dedicated attention to enable them to access financing to undertake various projects. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Any attempt to generally bring all of them together to form one big Fund will in essence defeat the purpose for which they were created and contravene expectations and provisions of the Constitution. So, consequently, the attempt to create one, however laudable in terms of administrative leanness and perceived efficiency will in the end bring about a situation where the intended parties do not get access to the said Funds. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: There have been audit queries on the management of the Funds. It would have been important at the very beginning to address those audit queries before moving with speed to merge them, so that probably, we are able to sweep under the carpet the malpractices that have happened at the Youth Enterprise Fund and other similar Funds. Therefore, it is important that the mandarins at the National Treasury get a bit of touch by going down to earth and interacting with the local mwananchi on the ground. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The purported Biashara Fund was more or less a kin to a bank. It had all the provisions of a bank, but only the name separated it from one. But if you look at the way it was structured and supposed to be run, it was going to be more or less like a bank. This would have meant the people it was targeting to serve will never have accessed the banking facility because it was meant to deal or address the challenges of the so called un-bankable society to access finance to undertake projects. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Again, the structure was completely detached from the local arrangement. As the separate Funds stand, there is a lot of community participation in identifying projects, identifying and forming groups, training them, capacity building and making dedicated follow-ups to ensure there is recovery of advanced funds. The structure was top heavy and very light on the ground that it was going to be another pyramid scheme, white elephant or an opportunity to loot and waste public funds. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Fundamentally, it was such a shame. You cannot make such fundamental changes without involving members of the public. There was no evidence that there was public participation. There was nothing presented to the Committee or anybody who cared to listen whether members of public were ever consulted. This brings into question the threshold of public participation. Is a newspaper advertisement tacked in a very far away corner of a typical newspaper adequate enough to notify the very people intended to target to make their comments? view