Jared Odoyo Okelo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: There is a Bill that I have been working on, that is, the Health (Amendment) Bill. I have appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee and presented my case. When you presented a catalogue of pending Bills yesterday, I had expected to know exactly where my Bill is lying. Unfortunately, I did not hear that particular Bill from that long list. This Bill is very important to me because it was addressing the unilateral detention of patients in various hospitals for lack of making payments. So, I thought that especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, this Bill was going to address ... view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I was caught aback because this is something that begun in the year 2018. I reckon in 2019 we almost lost it due to the pandemic. But, I was hearing about certain Private Members’ Bills being proposed in the year 2019. So, how my Bill was overtaken so easily by other Private Members’ Bills remains bizarre to me. I am puzzled to that extent. view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want Hon. Kaluma to listen to this. Subsection 2(b) is talking about reputation. How do you qualify reputation in a family? They are going to disagree there and that is what the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party was talking about when he referred to litigation. In Subsection 2(c) he says the person was being maintained. How do you measure maintenance? Is it one time rent, is it a package of sugar? You cannot qualify all these? So, drop this. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It behooves this House to either kill or pass the Bill. It does not lie with an individual or the Committee. In 2018, I did a Bill that was targeting people being unilaterally held at various health facilities, maybe in detention camps. That Bill was to address the issue of people languishing in health facilities for long just because of failure to pay. It is now three years and I do not know where the Bill is. I remember the Budget and Appropriations Committee asked me to appear before them, which I did. I presented my ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Mhe. Naibu Spika wa Muda, kwanza kabisa, wacha nikushukuru kwa kunipa nafasi hii niweze kuongeza sauti yangu katika Hoja hii ya mjadala huhusu hotuba ya Mhe. Suluhu ambaye ni Rais wa Tanzania aliyoitoa hapa Bungeni kwetu. Kuja kwa Mhe. Suluhu katika Jengo hili, ni kuonyesha heshima kubwa sana kwa Wabunge wa Taifa la Kenya. Tunamshukuru kwa kupata nafasi ya kuja kwetu kututembelea na kuzungumza maneno ambayo yana uzito katika uboreshaji wa maswala ya uchumi, elimu, mambo ya barabara na mengineyo. Sisi kama Wakenya ambao Mwenyezi Mungu ametupa nafasi kuwa hapa Bungeni, tunasema asante sana. Tuligundua kwamba Mhe. Suluhu ndiye Rais ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Tukiwa hapa Bungeni na Mhe. Suluhu, tulichekeshwa. Kulikuwa na mbwembwe na nderemo alipotaja kwamba wanyama wa pori kule Tanzania huwa wanakuja Kenya kutiwa mimba na kurudi kule Tanzania kuzaa. Sasa kazi ya wanyama wetu hapa nyumbani ni rahisi aje? Kazi yao ni kutia tu mimba wanyama wa kike kutoka kule Tanzania na kurudi kuzaa. Sasa hiyo mzigo tunapeleka Tanzania. Tulikuwa na vichekesho sana hapa wakati Mhe. Suluhu alitutembelea. Tumekuwa na changamoto kadhaa katika uwekezaji wa mali na jinsi ya kufanya biashara hapa na kule Tanzania. Kila mtu anatambua kuwa cheti au kibali cha kufanya kazi kule Tanzania kimekuwa kizungumkuti na ... view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I believed the import of this Bill was to control and curtail unnecessary fundraisers. Members of Parliament will tell you how subjective this has been to them. Therefore, this Bill was birthed in order to set up some controls. If we have to do an extra mile to now invite the wrath or otherwise of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), then we are losing the gist of this Bill. It has always been automatic that fundraisers that are done together with the collections are not subjected to any taxation whatsoever and if we are ... view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We are not cheapening Harambees or trivialising the entire process of fundraising. We are only putting in place certain measures that will help to create accountability in matters of financing through Harambees . The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view