Prof. Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: It is also of great joy that a key area like taxation of the retirees’ income was taken into account and addressed. I agree and support the proposals because of the manner they are addressing the needs and seeking to look into them. I am seated in this Parliament as a nominated Member whose nomination by and large acknowledges the way society is organized. We should not only look at income issues given the manner in which we look at whether people are in paid employment or the informal sector, but also at the patterns of consumption I acknowledge and ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I would like to come to what I found very profound and powerful from the Chair as he highlighted a lot of important milestones or achievements or what the Committee has raised in this Finance Bill. He mentioned public participation and he indicated that the public participation and the stakeholder input was given a weighty and extremely important consideration. He indicated that the memoranda came in through the newspaper. I once again feel that this is good but I would like to encourage the National Assembly and the Committee that when we are considering public participation and a matter that ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you for the opportunity you have given me to support the various proposals. I also thank the Chair, Hon. Limo. The people of Kipkelion East are very lucky to have Hon. Limo as their Member of Parliament. I find him quite knowledgeable on this issue. view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: As I support the proposals, I also want to say that the Finance Bill, 2020, is basically a very fair Bill. I take special recognition especially when it comes to the National Treasury dropping the component of taxing pensioners. In this time and era, we cannot afford to tax pensioners. If we look around, we realise that most of our pensioners do not earn a lot of money. Recently, I was watching on Citizen Television a story of a very old man who was getting a net pension of about Ksh20,000 but had accumulated a lot of debts. What he ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Persons with disabilities who are basically within the bracket are unemployed and unbanked and get little money. For them to be subjected to a tax at the end, it is something that should not be happening now. Currently, they were not even in the taxable bracket. So, why would that happen now when we are facing a lot of challenges? That is the major reason I would support the proposals and the Finance Bill. view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: The Budget of the country in respect of the people I represent, persons living with disabilities (PWD), has constantly remained stagnant. It is just a flat budget of about Ksh400 million. I do not know what plans we have to increase the budget for persons with disabilities in this country. Persons with disabilities in this country have consistent and persistent needs. When we talk about cushioning the vulnerable, who are more vulnerable in this country than persons with disabilities? They constantly require wheelchairs, care and many other things. I would wish that even as we move forward to our next ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: this country, but the budget that goes to taking care of the needs of PWDs has constantly been the same. Sometimes it goes down and sometimes it just remains flat. So, we have never seen, as PWDs community in this country, a budget that is extremely fair to us. So, it is my humble plea that, as we move to next year’s Budget, we engage the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to ensure that our budget goes up. I support the Finance Bill simply because of the young people in this country. If the Budget proposes to waive ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill, which is concerned with the care and protection of the elderly members of the society. I thank the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Senate. We have a national policy on older persons and the ageing. The United Nations Human Rights Commission also has an independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights of older persons. It is important that we note that even the African Union (AU) has a special treaty on the right of older persons. As we look at ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: by the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare but also by other members, I would like to support and indicate that this Bill is substantial. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, however, as we look at the key issues that seem to face older members of society, largely the kind of issues that seem to face members who are seen to be vulnerable, sometimes because of age… In some cases, we find that people could be facing vulnerability because of ability, like people living with disabilities (PWDs). There are other instances when people can face vulnerability on aspects such as gender. ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I would like to thank the Senate and congratulate the Committee. But I must express my strong concern. I am from Siaya County, specifically from Alego Usonga Constituency. One of the things I have noticed is that in the village now we have mothers, some of whom do not even speak a word of English, attempting to speak Kiswahili or English with their children in the rural areas. Part of the reason they do this is that they are of the view that if their children were to speak English or Kiswahili, then there is a sense in which they ... view