Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 871 to 880 of 1537.

• 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
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: By virtue of the fact that there was no demonstrated public participation, it appeared as if this was a scheme designed somewhere else to basically mislead the people of Kenya into signing something which was going to become a scandal in the making. More tellingly, the provision was that part of the Fund could be lend to intermediaries, also again smacked of 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: conspiracy to basically direct funds to some people or organisation in good books with some Government officials, so that they can use that money as a pyramid scheme or shylock. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Indeed, as we stand now, Uwezo Fund has done tremendous work on the ground. As I speak, the Youth Enterprise Fund has touched the lives of the young people in the constituencies. Many of the small communities and women have benefited immensely from the Women Enterprise Fund. All these three Funds have had dedicated attention to the specific target groups. There is no harm in having them differently, but ensure that we have lean administration with minimal administrative costs. That way, we will deepen financial access to our communities much more than we have done today. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As I speak, I have presided over issuance of cheques under the Uwezo Fund totaling to about Kshs2 million in my constituency. Our Fund has grown from Kshs18 million to Kshs30 million. It will be very unfair to kill such success stories at the expedience of some people who really look at it as if it is free money to loan to their friends for purposes of making abnormal profits. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As I conclude, we seem to assume that the rural poor men are okay. The truth of the matter is that they are increasingly getting marginalised and frustrated because they have been denied access to soft loans. As we debate, probably it is important that we look for ways and means to ensure that our grandfathers and older members of society are able to access financial facilities under the same terms like our honourable ladies, enterprising youths and all the people who are targeted by these Funds. Let us not continuously disfranchise the men in society because if we do ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion for annulment of the Regulations. view
• 8 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute on the Bill on sectional properties. For record purposes, this Act is an update or upgrade to the existing Sectional Properties Act. I suppose this upgrade is as a result of the intention to align it to the new constitutional dispensation and to take account of the emerging challenges in the registration of partial or fractional interests. The import of this Bill is to introduce a second legislation in respect of registration of properties. The principal or the main Act that registers properties or recognises rights and properties of ... view