Jared Odoyo Okelo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 445.

• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. On the same breath I want to thank my brother, Hon. Gideon Keter, for coming up with such an incisive amendment of the Employment Act. It is true that as a nation, we are bogged down by documentation, some of which are utterly unnecessary. When people apply for jobs, there are five critical documents that they have to annex to their letter of application, some of which according to the employers are very critical in determining the character of a person that they would want to recruit. As we know in ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: is far from it. I mean, we have seen people with all sorts of clearances still turning out to be crooks and siphoning monies from their would be employers or from their employers. So, I am not convinced that these documents are helping in any way. At the moment, we are grappling with unemployment, which is really a catastrophe. It is a time bomb anywhere in the world, but more specifically in this country. Our President, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, has admitted that our country is losing Kshs 2 billion to crooks in the name of corruption every day. Every single ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: The President admitted that we are losing a lot of money in a single day. Money that would have perpetuated our infrastructural development, expanded businesses and created an enabling environment for businesses to thrive is being lost to people who use it for their own selfish aggrandisements. In any business course, you are taught about economies of scale. That is where the volumes that are driven would create issues such as needs, more markets and, therefore, more money. On this, I am speaking specifically to what we have lately been confronted with, as a nation, which is the hike in ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: and motorcyclists who are in that trade would easily carry out their businesses. At the end of the day, we will push volumes of oil into the market which will create many job opportunities for deserving Kenyans. However, here is a Government that thinks that if they hike fuel prices, they will make much more money. You only make much more money if you create a demand which is met by supply, which is turned around into monies which will then be taken over by Government taxes, which should be less than what they are today. As I conclude, how ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Kenyans a livelihood, one of the biggest proposals that will be presented to the Executive will be to do away with the punitive taxes that have put us into this mess. For that, I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for the opportunity. Since last week, I have been receiving phone calls from teachers drawn from Nyando Constituency, some of whom are asking me to provide them with monies so that they can attend this training. My late father was a teacher. Unfortunately, before he passed on, he advised me to become a teacher as a last resort. That was based on all the mistreatment that was perpetuated on the teaching fraternity then. The same mistreatment has continued to date. This is a unilateral decision that has been made by the TSC without looking ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Chairman. I come from Nyando, and not Nyakach. Nyakach is my immediate neighbour. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: It makes a lot of sense for both the county governments and the national Government to do the top up as proposed by the Leader of the Majority Party, but I am at pains to reconcile the private sector. How do you insulate employees against mischief by employers who may at the end of the day take the entire sum of Kshs500, for instance, without necessarily doing any top up? How do we protect employees in the private sector? Some of them are quite gullible. Some of them are illiterate to the extent that they may not be able to ... view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. My political persuasion, ODM, and its defunct NASA Coalition, have always held the view that we are dealing with a very inept and rudderless IEBC. Our opponents across the aisle have always believed that this is the best electoral umpire we have ever got in this country. Today, they are confronted with the same ineptitude and we are increasingly getting vindicated. I was very keen on petitions, especially election petitions, in 2013, during the first election after the new constitutional order, and during the 2017 elections. Whereas one could have presented cogent and ... view
• 5 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity. I am a bit bewildered by your factual observation on additional responsibilities that have consistently and incrementally been ramped up on the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). I think this is because Kenyans are yet to internalise the terms of references around NG-CDF. Probably, it is because it was the first devolved money back to the electorate. Health is a devolved function. Just as you have correctly put it, even cabinet secretaries who belong to the affluent community and are enlightened would still be asking us to shoulder ... view