Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 931 to 940 of 1534.

• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you for this opportunity, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have seen the response. I have been given a copy. However, there are two pertinent issues that have risen. I need your guidance on how to seek further clarification. On the first part of the response, there is a very telling statement. I want to reread it if you will allow me. It reads: “The fisheries resources in Lake Victoria are common property of the citizens of the East African Community.” That is a story telling to the birds. The truth of the matter is that the Ugandan side does ... view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: On the second part of the Question, the Ministry seems to have skirted around the issue. They did not give me an answer. I was specific enough and very categorical in my Question: “When is the Government going to set up a maritime office in Samia Sub-County?” The long stories about 5,000 fisheries and coast guards does not really answer the Question that I asked. It was to be a very simple answer. Will they set up a maritime office or not? If they are going to set up the office, when are they going to do so? The response ... view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I can understand the challenges my colleague has. Much has been exposed. Some of us were born, probably, inside the lake together with the fish. So, we understand fish issues more than him. However, this is a starting point. I will rephrase the question in a Question form then engage the relevant technical people in the Ministry and in the county government. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this Bill. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Dr. Mutunga is my friend. So, if I am given a chance, he has as well gotten a chance. This is an opportune time for amending the Statistics Act, which has been with us for many years. It is also time for us to align the Act with the new constitutional dispensation and with the best practices. The issue of statistics goes to the core of human welfare and to the core of a sophisticated and advanced society. We use data, which are eventually translated into statistics, to make far- reaching decisions, including critical ... view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: response rate than has been the case in many researches I have, fortunately, had a chance to supervise and review. My colleagues have raised concerns about the recruitment of enumerators, supervisors and ICT people. I hope the management of KNBS is listening to the cries and comments of the people of Kenya so that before it is too late, they must rectify and attend to that issue. We have very many young people who are highly educated, but unemployed. I would vouch for them to be given jobs. Those who have jobs, it is only kind and fair that you ... view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Clause 13 of the Bill has a dangerous provision that the Director General may, with the approval of the board, cause any official statistical data collected, analysed and disseminated by the bureau to be cancelled, revised or adjusted after ascertaining the data is not accurate. This cannot be allowed to pass. We are simply sanctioning incompetence. We are simply sanctioning poor planning and there is a hidden hand here. If you release data that I am not happy with and I can marshal pressure from elsewhere, we will cause the data to be cancelled, recalled or ... view
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, I must commend the Senate for the Fourth Schedule which has laid down the principles of official statistics, that is commendable. In the First Schedule that has been amended, we need to do further amendments because there are very many issues that need to be addressed where official statistics are needed instead of relying on half-baked research papers. 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
• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, I urge all people of Busia County, because it is even written in the Bible that Joseph and Mary went back to their home area to be counted, during the census on 24th August, let everybody go back to their counties to be counted for purposes of equitable allocation of resources under the county government and the National Government Development Constituencies Fund, whichever approach we will take. view