Jared Odoyo Okelo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I want to invoke the provisions of Standing Order No. 97. Whereas this is a weighty and very important Motion which is Report on Four EAC Bills and Ratification of the Protocol on Cooperation of Meteorological Services, it is my proposal under Standing Order No. 97 that we limit the duration of debate from 10 minutes to 5 minutes per member, so that many Members can have an opportunity to delve into this matter. Before the time for the adjournment of the debate, every Member can put some effort on this important Motion. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Petition could not have come at a better time. It is true that many people are segregated along the lines of delineation of hardship boundaries. This is something that, as a Parliament, we need to holistically address. I know individual Members of Parliament have made individual efforts through the relevant Government ministries to have this matter addressed. All those efforts have made an impact and that is why the matter is becoming part of the deliberations of this House. It is being taken to the relevant committee for further debate and scrutiny and, hence, an ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: It is very interesting that Nyando Constituency sits right in the middle of two constituencies - Muhoroni and Nyakach. Those two constituencies are benefiting from hardship allowances. Nyando has been excluded from that scheme. You wonder what rationale was used for those two constituencies to benefit and leave Nyando out of it. This is something that civil servants confront me with every time I am in my constituency. Of course, we are still new in this House - barely a year in office - but it is a reflection of the failure of the leadership, particularly at the constituency level, ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: A Member has talked about how funny the boundaries are. In my constituency, it is only a road that separates Nyando and Muhoroni. I have two schools on either side of the road, one in Muhoroni and the other in Nyando Constituency. It takes less than a minute to cross to the school. They know that teachers from the other school are getting hardship allowances and those from my constituency are not. It contributes to migration of public servants. You have teachers who, perhaps, get an opportunity to teach in Nyando Constituency, but are not willing to come. So, they ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As we speak, since January, I have lost 35 teachers to my neighbouring constituencies. The attraction is simply the hardship allowance. When they hear that it is Kshs10,000, that definitely means a lot. Looking at the story that has been running this week, what Kshs10,000 can do... If it can create wonders in this House, you can only imagine what Kshs10,000 can do to a teacher in the village. I support this Motion. Let us go back to the relevant committee and try to address this issue once for all. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: If for one reason or the other it cannot incorporate all the other constituencies, then let us look at a balance. Let us have a universal increment of salaries for civil servants across the country, so that all of them can benefit in one way or the other. This is creating disparity. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was only acting on what I read and what I heard. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I unreservedly withdraw. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I was saying we need to look at a middle ground where everybody benefits universally and across the board, so that we do not have a resurgence and recurrence of this particular concern. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Finally, there is an unwritten rule operating within this House that, once a Member from a region has spoken, then we seldom get an opportunity to speak because of that kind of representation. I want us to relook into this unwritten rule particularly touching on the leadership of the House. For instance, we have the Leader of the Minority Party who, by default, comes from Nyanza. Once he has spoken, it is assumed that Nyanza has spoken. A minority leader represents the entire Republic of Kenya particularly talking about a powerful political movement such as the National Super Alliance (NASA). ... view