Oundo Wilberforce Ojiambo

Hon (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) The Office of the Auditor General is one of the key offices under the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Unfortunately, it is an under-staffed office. It is under-resourced. It has not been given adequate capacity to do its work. We need the office to be...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Oundo, I must laud the national Government Executive for investing a substantial amount of money in the fisheries and the blue economy. I do not know whether the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee is around or any Member to convey this message. They...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, we have allocated a whooping Ksh127 billion for roads in the capital projects. The most unfortunate and unfairest thing is that this particular allocation for the road works could only be concentrated in one section of this country, leaving out the...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I urge the departments and the entire Budget and Appropriations Committee to look for more resources. The chaos that are being experienced during university admissions is heart-rending. I have received a request to pay Ksh161,000 for a student from Funyula Constituency...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I hope the Chairman, in respect to these departments, is in the House. It seems that we have a serious crisis in the correctional services of dilapidated prisons, lack of motor vehicles to transport prisoners to courts, and, generally, a poor state of the...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Being a substantial amount of close to Ksh9.5 billion and for a sense of accountability, is it possible to see value for money for this expenditure? We know that they require money to move. Let us hope the money is not spent out of...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) There is a point we need to note as we support. This Vote is only a recurrent expenditure. It does not produce anything that can enhance economic development in this country. In future, we need to allocate them something to engage the people, instead...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I sincerely support and thank the Department for this consideration. The old people have been suffering. I have also seen an allocation for student protection. I urge the caregivers, guardians and those who take care of the elderly and their children not to misuse...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM)[(The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) left the Chair)]When we were going through the Report yesterday, under crop development and management, there was a proposed reduction on the cotton seeds distribution programme. We have positioned this country as a premium player in the textile industry,...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was starting to get worried that today was probably a day for affirmative action, where you give priority to the marginalised. As required under the Constitution and common practice, budget estimates must be presented to the National Assembly...