Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, as we amend the First Schedule, could the Vice-Chairperson explain to us the status of implementing County Aggregation Industrial Parks (CAIPs) ? I can see that in quite a number of counties, there is a standard amount of about Ksh105 million...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai) : What is your point of clarification? It is a deletion. There is nothing to clarify, Hon. Oundo. Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I totally...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I must take this opportunity to laud the Senate for bringing the Bill to this House. We hope that the Senate will concur with the amendments we have made so that we can expeditiously complete this process. It has been a...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Through you, we probably need to request the Parliamentary Service Commission to repair microphones so that I do not have to keep on shifting and, nowadays, you have told us to go digital by using the gadgets. I hope...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I was not alerted. So, in that score, I support. May I expand by saying that we also bond county governments to invest in sugarcane production. With those very many remarks, I support the Motion.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to second the Motion by the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya in its Report proposing the appointment of an audit firm to audit the Auditor-General. This House, by dint of...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) For record purposes, I second the Motion.

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, I represent one of the constituencies that are badly affected by the the so-called…Sory! Let me call it “bad manners” of our Ugandan neighbours. Hardly a week ends without reports of arrests. Actually, they are not even arrests. They are abductions. The...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me also join my fellow Kenyans in congratulating the 11 athletes who brought us medals. I also congratulate all the other members of the entourage who accompanied the entire team to Paris for the Olympic Games. It is...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Departmental Committee on Regional Integration on the Report of the Inspection Visit to the Semi-Autonomous Organs of the African Community in Uganda. Hon. Temporary Speaker, let me start by declaring that...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, the fish in Lake Victoria mostly breeds at the entry point of River Sio and River Nile and then spreads throughout EAC. The fish has no passport at all. It is neither Kenyan, Tanzanian or Ugandan. I urge the Committee, through...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Whichever pleases you, can I stand on Standing Order 35 and request that we either have the numbers or defer debate under Standing Order 96? A quorum at 35 or debate on 96, given the importance of the Motion whose Question has been proposed,...

Hon (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Due to the importance of the debate on the Motion at hand, I stand under Standing Order 96 to 8th August 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 37 Hon (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)move that debate be now adjourned to a...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to the Motion about Mental Health that was moved by our able Member of the ODM team, Hon. Mishi Mboko. 7th August 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 28 Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula,...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Speaker, when we resumed this Session after the day never to forget…. Hon. Speaker It is the day not to remember! 7th August 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 5 (Laughter) Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) The day we will never forget. Hon. Speaker,...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand here to support the Report of the Committee on Appointments. While I may have many reservations about some proposed nominees, it will be utterly unfair to contradict what a Committee mandated by this Parliament and the Constitution of...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I sincerely thank the Chairperson of the Select Committee on the National Government Constituency Development Fund for picking this out. Honestly speaking, it is an irregular, illegal, and unwarranted interference in the implementation of an Act of Parliament that...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill 2024, that has been necessitated by factors which this House is a complicit party in the oath of all misfortune. We ought not to be here; we ought to have...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I know…

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I am firmly aware. For record purposes, Dr Makali Mulu and all of us know that we already have audited accounts for 2022/2023 Financial Year, which have already been laid before this House. If the House takes an inordinately long time to review and...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let the matter rest, but it is a point of debate. I think the people of Kenya have heard and will decide whom to believe. As I conclude, it is important as a country that we look at how...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the 2nd Report of the Public Investments Committee on Social Services, Administration and Agriculture on the consideration of the Auditor- General’s reports on the financial statements of State corporations. When you look...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, as much as the amendment to Clause 29 is timely and appropriate, I am worried that the time given for compliance is an open-ended cheque, meaning that the licensee may just play a ping-pong game while undertaking operations without complying. I...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I agree to some extent with my good friend with a red cap. I remember Kibra. I totally agree. If you look at the intent and wording of the clause, it seems to resolve disputes between the cotton farmer, the co-...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I have very nostalgic memories of collection centres, which we used to call stores in my constituency. It was one of the leading areas in cotton growing and the way it was designed, it was owned by the co- operative societies....

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I can see the good intention of the Committee, as pronounced through the Chairperson. However, I am afraid the issue of tax incentives is clearly stipulated in the Constitution and Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. I do not know under what...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also stand to make my few comments on the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2024. We have found ourselves in uncharted waters. It is an unprecedented situation that we have found ourselves in. This is the first time in Kenya...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Supplementary Bill, 2024.It is, indeed, an interesting situation we find ourselves in. It is unprecedented because we are preparing a Supplementary Bill even before we implement the Bill that we passed just a few days ago. This...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Okay, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me repeat. The Budget Appropriation Committee has clearly told us the budget cuts is Ksh146 billion. 24th July 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 151 Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)We were told that the impounded Finance Bill was to raise...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Before we went for recess and the fires that happened on the 25th, I had requested for a statement from the Departmental Committee on Defence that is chaired by Hon. Tongoyo. We had agreed that he would submit the statement...

Hon (Dr.) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. When we were enacting the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, we were extremely careful. We knew that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is why Chapter 6, on Integrity and Leadership, was inserted in the Constitution. Unfortunately, we proceeded...

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

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I just want to sincerely sympathize with my colleague who happens to be my brother-in-law for the loss he almost suffered for refusing to listen to the electorate. I think he has learnt his lesson and he will live to work...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion as presented here. I am not from Bungoma County and so, I will make general remarks concerning the observations laid on the Table and as moved by the Committee....