Jared Odhiambo Opiyo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I want to support the Committee’s amendment. I want to add that when this Act comes into force, we will make sure that schools are ranked in the way they are managed in terms of financial management and curriculum implementation. It should be done after every five years, so that we know the way our schools perform in other activities. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my contributions to this Bill which I oppose. Just like my colleagues have indicated, my reason is also on the timing. If you remember, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just yesterday, the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee tabled a Report in this House. They hinted that the Report was as a result of an investigation they did that was clearing the IEBC commissioners of any wrong doing in matters of corruption. In quick succession, the same Committee is bringing amendments to have several aspects of our electoral system reformed. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: This House does not exist in a vacuum and all of us understand the political environment in which we exist currently. Just before the Joint Select Committee was formed, this country was actually hanging at the brink. The whole country sighed with relief the day His Excellency the President and the leaders of CORD agreed that there was need to speak to one another and that there was need to come up with a Joint Select Committee that would have equal representation. I do not understand why at this point in time Parliament is rushing to make these reforms and ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: During that conversation some people were saying that the IEBC is not trusted and must go while others were saying they see nothing wrong with the IEBC. A section of this House was of the opinion that if any reforms have to be done around the IEBC, they are supposed to be done in this House. Later on when the President was engaged and he engaged the entire country and they agreed that we form a Select Committee, many of these people agreed that that was actually the right route to take. For us to go back just within days ... view
• 19 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this matter. This is a very grave matter. In the last one month, I have had nightmare in my constituency. Two of my very senior schools were affected. A dormitory was completely brought down at Kokoro Boys High School. The other one is at Awendo School of Excellence. This is where we spent money for Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) recently. The NGCDF has also spent a substantial amount of money to bring other infrastructure in the same school. A dormitory was brought down and ... view
• 19 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: morning that he was meeting the Senate Committee on Education. I am on record asking what he was doing in the Senate, while what is being burnt is not a nursery school but our high schools. The Office of the Speaker must really pronounce itself as to the various mandates of the various Committees and whether our colleagues in the Senate are creating committees outside their mandate, thereby disorganising our operations as committees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with other speakers who have spoken that what we have is a question of security and the culture we are bringing ... view
• 6 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thank Hon. Wamunyinyi. We have been haggling over this thing for a long time. We thank God it has come. I thank all the Members for supporting the Bill. Like my colleagues have said, I wish the effects are felt by farmers when the Bill will finally become law. We will make the calculations to see the benefits. Authorities like Kenya Sugar Directorate and the rest that are concerned should ensure that we see the reduction after the calculations are made. view
• 6 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: He is the chairman of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. We want the Kenya Sugar Directorate to ensure that there is a reflection of the same on every tonne of sugarcane supplied to the sugar factory for every reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT). That shall be calculated. That will ensure that the benefit that is accruing from that tax reduction does not end up in the pockets of the contractors and sugar transporters. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I really appreciate and support. view
• 6 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak to this matter. I have been waiting to speak for the last three hours. I am happy finally to have got the opportunity. I want to congratulate Hon. Nyamunga for coming up with this Motion. However, I wish she could have framed it so that this House ‘resolves’. This House has never and will never debate in vain. That is why on an important matter like this, we cannot afford to just ‘urge’ the Government because it may decide to act or fail to act. I wish she framed ... view
• 6 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Just about a day or two ago, the entire country was shocked to read from the media that we are actually eating imported fish from China. We have a lot of fish resources in this country but the Government has embarked on a systematic and calculated move to kill the fish industry. How on earth can you explain that people in Kisumu are eating imported fish while they sit on the second largest fresh water lake in the world? The Motion by Hon. Nyamunga to start training institutions and fish processing plants is a very important one. The fishing folk ... view