Gideon Ochanda

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. If the Government does not do certain things, we will continue experiencing many problems. One thing they should do is use data in planning. Each successive government has been well aware that the number of vehicles on the roads increases...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The world is moving very fast. In the study of political science, the animals that move slowly are governments. Governments are very slow; they cannot move at the speed at which the world is advancing. The world is progressing rapidly...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. We value Professor’s works. As a country, we also celebrate the experts we have made. I believe that the value of Ngugi's works is incomparable. He contributed immensely to the world. If you want to know how great he was, look at the amount of...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. We value Professor’s works. As a country, we also celebrate the experts we have made. I believe that the value of Ngugi's works is incomparable. He contributed immensely to the world. If you want to know how great he was,...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As we legislate around issues of social protection, I want to believe that as a country, there are issues that we have not been looking at adequately, and we need to consider them. Firstly, in the modern world, after college,...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I join you in welcoming the students to the National Assembly, particularly those from Maranda High School, which hails from Bondo. Maranda is our prime and premier school. To the students, especially those who are studying history and government, as...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The request is noted. We will pick up the matter as a Committee. I promise to look for the Chairman very fast, so that this matter can be addressed. We will bring the Statement in two weeks’ time.

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion by my good neighbour, Hon. Atandi. We are an agriculture-led economy yet we are doing very little to produce our own fertilisers. We import virtually everything that we ought not to import in the...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to speak to something that the entire leadership of the House needs to be cautious about. We have conflicts every year in terms of the vertical division of revenue. We do it without thinking of additional monies, whether...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. If you look at the First Schedule to the Bill, you will see that many counties are not receiving any allocation while others are receiving.

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) We are together, Deputy Leader of the Majority Party. That is what I was talking about. Before the advent of devolution, there were municipal courts all over. They should be all over again, so that they help to generate court fines for the counties that...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Other than the issue of certification, properly categorising this profession and making sure that they self-regulate, there are many other things that the Bill ought to have recognised. Since the Bill did not recognise some of the areas, it is...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon Temporary Speaker. Yesterday, when Hon. Irene told me about this Bill, I asked her twice... If you look at Nyamira and Kisii, every piece of land has blue gum trees. So, when I asked her whether she was very sure about this,...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The juggernaut that is before the nation is a combination of factors. The very basic one is poor learning experiences. We have seen those failures before, but it is like we did not learn. Because of that, we have not...

Hon. Gideon Ochanda (Bondo, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. For the first time, this House has been very magnanimous. In fact, apart from the Division of Revenue Bill, we gave counties more money through a different legislation. We added them money and there was no provocation. Nobody had asked for...