Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) A rating Bill of this nature is an adoptive Law. In the wisdom, I just hope nobody will go to court and make Parliament look as if it does not have legal minds in this matter. Thank you. Good job. I support this mediated...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me commend the Committee for coming up with the mediated version of the National Rating Bill. I am a happy man today because a number of amendments had been moved when the Bill was in the Committee of...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. Firstly, whatever happens in Budalangi in the form of harassment also happens in Funyula. Therefore, whatever answer he has provided touches more or less on Funyula. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we want to make it very clear...

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

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Deputy Speaker, as has been the custom in this House since the beginning of the 13th Parliament, a Cabinet Secretary normally comes to answer questions and requests for statements on Wednesday afternoons. The Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Roads and Transport was...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Yes, all of them are employees of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) . We end up with a theatre of absurdity. The Speakers’ Panels, the senior Members and leadership of the two Houses, and the PSC, must resolve this matter once and for all....

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We have had this debate severally, but we seem to be making no progress. I concur with my colleagues that it is time we either act or live with this mess forever. We have the advantage because the substantive...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. On behalf of the people of Funyula Constituency and Busia County as a whole, allow me to send my sincere condolences to the friends, family, and former constituents of Waziri Oloo Aringo. When we talk about Siaya, we cannot...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Land Control Bill (National Assembly Bill No.39 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. For the record, this Bill was published in 2022. It was first read in February 2022, but as was the...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When I hear the story of Moi University, my heart bleeds. I left the University of Nairobi to come here. We had challenges but we managed to weather the storm. It also happens that my second born graduated from...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) Again, as my colleague mwalimu raised issues, exactly what kind of report are we envisaging? What we have here and what the country has does not lead anywhere. What kind of report are we envisaging to be submitted to the county assembly? What is...

Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo (Funyula, ODM) I totally concur or agree with the Committee. At times, county governments overreach themselves. The small departments in counties, which are without value to the lives of the people should not be involved in very complicated matters like these ones. Once it has gotten...

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. 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)Allow me to complete.

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) 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) 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) I do not mind being informed by...

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

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

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. 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) 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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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...