Lilian Achieng Gogo

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Thank you, my brother. For your information, it is the basic role of a Member of Parliament to legislate, oversight and represent. If a Member does not oversight well, they are directly responsible for the use of...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First and foremost, I congratulate Baba for being Baba, and for being Raila Amolo Odinga. We can never in the history of the Republic of Kenya have another copy of Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. I stand in...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance. I must say that in the spirit of separation of powers, whatever we decide on the plenary is unanimously decided by the Speaker of the National Assembly. In the recent past, the Judiciary...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order 33 (1) , I rise to seek leave for adjournment of the House in order to discuss a definite matter of urgent national importance regarding the implementation of the Social Health Insurance Fund, otherwise called...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker and honourable colleagues, for coming to discuss a matter of national importance. Healthcare is a basic right. A healthy nation speaks to the development and progress of that nation. The SHIF is designed to improve universal healthcare....

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) I am just doing a component. I was just about to finish. The objectives are commendable as SHIF aims to bridge critical gaps. Although its rollout has faced several challenges, it is important that we look at this as a matter of national importance....

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much. It is usually the desire of every Government to provide healthcare to its citizenry. As it were, there was need to change from the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) that was old and of old generation to what was presumed...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) I thank you for the 30 seconds. Private hospitals provide healthcare, but these are people you can never negotiate with. When our people go there, they are turned away. When they go to public hospitals, they are turned away. Where will the poor Kenyans...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this time to mourn with the late Hon. Peter Oloo Aringo's family. The late Oloo Aringo was my Member of Parliament. I was in the battalion of school children who would dance for Oloo...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker and my senior Hon. (Dr) Oundo. On this very important matter, I want to inform him that what he says has substance and quality, and is practicable and applicable. Community health workers' having some input in traditional...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) There are so many basic traditional medicines that this...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) I thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving the people of Rangwe a voice to speak on this matter. I rise to support. I applaud my colleague and friend, Hon. Wuod Chief, for bringing such an important matter to the Floor of...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to put the voice of the people of Rangwe to the idea of rejecting the proposed amendments by the Senate, and accept what the Committee has done. More often than not, people...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to speak on this matter of food safety. By dint of my training, I am a food scientist. When it comes to matters of food safety, I am more than glad that you have given me...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have come to speak about this matter that is very pertinent to this House and this nation. We are talking about legislation that is not done by this House. However, it is subordinate to the House,...

Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to inform my sister not to forget her promise to donate her book, Rig or be rigged, to Rangwe Constituency, which she launched recently. I celebrate her on that. I would like to inform...

Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo (Rangwe, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also rise and support the nomination of Mr. David Kemei to be the Director- General of the Competition Authority of Kenya. I congratulate him. He is well known for his astuteness in the work...