Jared Odhiambo Opiyo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 May 2013 in National Assembly: I want to say that I was touched by the story of one former Member of Parliament, hon. Mark Onyango. The story appeared in the The Standard last weekend. It is unfortunate that 20 years down the line, an hon. Member of this House can live the kind of life hon. Onyango is living today. I think this House should be firm. I am told he won some award in court, but he has not been paid. I think this House should push for such a payment to be made. view
• 25 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of Order, hon. Speaker. My name is hon. Opiyo Wandayi, hon. Member for Ugunja Constituency. I rise to seek your guidance. We are all aware that this is the last sitting of Parliament this week and we are also aware that the President is currently in the process of unveiling his Cabinet list and hopefully next week, the Cabinet nominees will be presented to Parliament for vetting. Early this week, when the Committee on Appointments was formed, an impression was created that the Committee would vet both the Cabinet Secretaries and the Principal Secretaries. When you look ... view
• 25 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: Just some guidance, hon. Speaker. view
• 25 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, I have been here for long and I have not been able to catch your eye. With a light touch, you may take us out for a retreat to train us on how to catch the Speaker’s eye. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: I want to congratulate you, Hon. Speaker, Sir, on your election as the Speaker of this House. I also congratulate your Deputy. I also want to take this opportunity to thank the people of Awendo Constituency for making a choice and electing me as their first Member of Parliament. As you may know, Awendo is a new constituency. I want to thank them very much for the decision that they made, and I want to promise that I will do my best to serve them in this capacity. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: I wish to make a few observations in relation to the President’s Address which, indeed, as most of my other colleagues have observed, was a moving. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: On the issue of laptops for our children in schools, I just want to say that as much as we want to welcome this idea, I wish we could first address pertinent issues in the education sector. For the record, before I came to this House, up to September last year, I was a principal of a school and I have first hand experience in these things. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: First, we should have concentrated on the issue of teacher-pupil ratio, which is very bad in Kenya. The teacher-pupil ratio is 1 to 47, while the international standard is 1 to 40. So, we should have concentrated on improving the teacher-pupil ratio in our schools, so that all our students have teachers to help them study. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: We could also have stressed more on more serious issues of enrolment, retention, completion and access. As we are speaking today, it is true that some of our schools do not have appropriate infrastructure. It is true that some of our children learn under trees, yet we want to talk about laptops. I think the best that we can do is to concentrate on issues that touch directly on the children. view
• 23 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I also want to urge the President that as he thinks about introducing laptops to our schools, he should also think about the teachers in those schools. Legal Notice No.453 of 1997 came just immediately before I joined the teaching fraternity. Up to this time, successive governments have not honoured it. To improve the standards of education in this country, the Government must, first of all, look at the view