Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to sincerely thank Hon. Wangwe for following up through with this Bill. It is a stage which seems to be like the end of the long journey. The collapse of the sugarcane industry in...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)Under what Standing Order?

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)Yes, let me conclude.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) It is good that Hon. Kiplagat has a mood meter that measures the mood of the House. I will conclude with the issue of the sugarcane catchment areas and the process of appointing or electing members to the Sugar Board. I see here that...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, as it has been a practice since the beginning of this Parliament, when a cabinet secretary is invited to come and respond to questions and requests for statements, we always receive the response in advance so that we can read, interrogate and...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. First of all, let me admit that I am not an expert in ICT. When the first mobile telephone calls came to this country, I was already working. I was mesmerised at...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want him to listen carefully because this is a policy and business matter. I also totally agree with him. The speed at which we process the so-called Members' Bills in this Parliament is annoyingly slow. 16th October 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would not want to complain. If I do, I can even sleep without food. Hon. Temporary Speaker, since Independence, we have had three critical goals: To reduce poverty, ignorance and diseases. Whether we have achieved that up to...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)Allow me to complete.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I am sure Dr. Gogo wants to inform Dr. Pukose...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Does she want to inform me or Dr. Pukose?

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I do not mind being informed by...

Hon (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) That is why I wanted to tell Hon. (Dr) Pukose that we will present in the Committee of the Whole House and let the House decide. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on many occasions, I have had to accompany my Governor when he went to meet...

Hon (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you. As I wind up, we also probably need to tell the Senate that this National Assembly has people who can understand and read the Constitution and tie it up. So, we do not fight over things that do not belong to us,...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (c) , I rise to request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Lands regarding the status of the Register of Government Lands as provided for under the...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I would also like to have your attention. I know you are multi-tasking but, please, give me a few seconds of your time. I want to continue from where my colleague left, but I do not want to lament, so to speak. Is there...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) The Land Control Bill. It has been pending since the day it was read the First Time in the 12th Parliament around 2021.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Yes, I revived the Bill, and it was only with your intervention that the Departmental Committee on Lands tabled their Report. I believe they tabled their Report sometime in March or May this year, although I am not certain. Unfortunately, it has never appeared...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I will do so, Hon. Speaker. On the issue of the Marriage Bill, I thought everyone here was married. Hon. Masara, what else do you want to do with the Marriage Bill? (Laughter)

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the Kenyan National Library Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 20 of 2023) . I also want to put it on record, because I sat in the Twelfth Parliament, that we discussed and processed this Bill...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. My attention is drawn to Article 125 of the Constitution, which makes reference 8th October 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 45 to the effect that Parliament has got the same powers as the High Court. Out of that,...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, I thank my colleague, Mheshimiwa Tindi Mwale, for bringing this matter. He is being too elitist by only considering imported and high-value drugs. Where I come from, we have bhang or sativa, or whatever it is called.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Cannabis sativa. I am the most unfortunate because Funyula Constituency, particularly the border point at Bukhwamba and part of Sigalame, which is the entry point to Kenya, border Uganda where it is grown. It will shock you beyond belief to know that the people...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Yes. The Kenya Police. They cross over to Uganda, grow bhang, supervise the porous border point through Mulwanda, Sigalame and Bukhwamba, and escort it to Nairobi. You can see how deep-rooted that menace is. It is well supported and protected by the security forces....

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, can we get the attention of the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health?

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, yesterday afternoon, I read a Statement from the Ministry of Health concerning the rollover from NHIF to this new animal called SHIF or SHA. Since yesterday - and I am sure many of our colleagues here will bear me witness - we...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. It is good to see my friend, the Hon. Cabinet Secretary, in the House today. He was the Majority Leader. He left me seated here and he will always find me here regardless of what Sir George thinks. I...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. (Loud consultations)

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will make it very brief. I am shocked beyond belief. I am shocked that a Member of Parliament can come and stand here and justify the massive rip-off. Ksh104 billion just to run a system! To be honest, we beseech...

Hon. Wilberforce Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (c) , I request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security regarding the welfare of prison officers and other various reports including the Marsden Madoka...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Chair and Vice-Chair are not present in the House at the moment. I undertake, being a founder member of the Committee, to bring the Statement within two weeks. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker.

Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just wish further clarification on the issue of listening to the Deputy President, and what follows thereafter, considering that the Motion must be dispensed off on the same particular day. There is a reasonable expectation that after being heard,...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. During the same Session, I represented Hon. David Ochieng’, in respect to a Question regarding abduction. Hon. Speaker, the question was insufficiently answered, and the Cabinet Secretary promised to provide additional information. The Chairperson should be kind enough to inform...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity and I stand to commend or give my opinion on this Bill. I must give a lot of credit to my friend KJ who has made me understand technology. I remember when we were with him...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I sincerely thank our colleagues who have stood in for us during this long odious battle to save the lives of the people of Kenya. I attended the judgement session on that Friday. We...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute. Allow me to make my contribution from three points of view. The first one is that I am a consumer of coffee. I like drinking it. Secondly, I am a Kenyan. For...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, my good colleague is debating a very important Bill that touches on the lifestyle of so many people. I rise under Standing Order 35. Looking around the Chamber, we obviously do not have quorum to debate such an important Bill. I,...