Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the ratification of the treaty that we are supposed to have with the USA. The world is moving fairly fast. It is true that we are getting more of biological related arrangements. We are not just getting biotechnology, but also...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Being part of the universe, this country has no option but to join the rest. The President has done very well. He has made a commitment and the best that we can do is to adopt this Report such that the process goes...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Speaker. If you look at the proposed amendments to a number of legislations that are here, you realise that apart from the Copyright Act, all the others including the ones we have withdrawn, deal with constituting membership of boards or appointments. That leaves the Copyright...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As a country, it is very unfortunate that since 1997 we have been talking about making changes to the electoral laws to improve administration of elections. We did this --- The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Ms.) Mbalu): I see an intervention. Hon. Ogolla...

Hon. Ogolla Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I had not settled. I hope I will get back my minutes. I was saying that it is unfortunate that the country has been doing more or less the same thing that we are doing today. We have been doing this in the last...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to comment very quickly on Hon. Aramat’s Petition. In as much as we have in the records that the resettlement arrangements were complete, definitely the framework that we use for settlement is still going to be problematic from one time to another....

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. If you look at what is happening in the world now, technology is moving mountains. It is so critical that as a country we look at areas that are involved in technology very seriously. If you look at faculties and disciplines like Anthropology...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This country is living a lie and we are cheating ourselves in a big way. Immediately we are doing exercises as CORD, we are marked and definitely graded. We are grading and ranking in one way or another. We are living a...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. One thing I might want to quickly look at in this debate is that we are in a situation where there is the issue of the chicken and the egg. This depends on how we want to look at the matter. Certain...

Hon. Ogolla Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. One burden I am trying to offload is the term of the President. I know the Speaker is going to make a ruling on this but in my view, the President’s term ends when the next President is elected, regardless of the...