Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 861 to 870 of 1537.

• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill before the National Assembly. It is a matter that many of us had not given thought about because, typically, the process of adoption in this country seems to have been a preserve of the very rich and foreigners. Indeed, this brings into the limelight the question of children and how we get children that we have adopted into a family and induct them. I know the process of adoption at times is by choice. Sometimes it happens by accident or by an act of God, ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Speaker. I also come from a constituency where, luckily enough, my new Deputy County Commissioner (DCC), Mr. Talam, has put his foot down strongly on the issue of Disco Matanga . At the very beginning in our culture, we never used to have Disco Matangas . We used to have cultural practices that were done respectfully to honour the dead, especially the aged in the community. Luckily enough, it used to happen after the burial when we would hold a vigil for three days for a lady and four days for a man. What we have now is ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the report by the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, where manufacturing is one of the key agenda in the Big Four Agenda, it is always unfortunate that the manufacturing sector is underfunded to the extent that the Big Four Agenda dream through manufacturing might never be experienced or actualised. I sincerely support the idea and I hope the Parliament Budget Office and other donors will develop a framework or a tool to enable us monitor the performance of ... view
• 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