Jared Odoyo Okelo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 51 to 60 of 445.

• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Is he now complaining? view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Alright, I withdraw; he is my friend. Hon. Speaker, I have seen many cases where Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) still present themselves before the Senate even on matters that are under investigation and live in this House. Last week, the CS for Sports, Culture and Heritage appeared before the Senate. From my recollection, the sports function was not devolved to the counties. Just as this Judgment has advised, we need to properly analyse what they need to be doing for our counties, some of which has been alluded to by my friend, Hon. Sankok. He talked about sanitisation on the ground, ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, allow me to step back and reflect on what Hon. David Ochieng’ has said, that certain Government projects are directed in a particular way to the detriment of other regions. This informs the cut-throat competition we commonly have during our electioneering period. We have been accustomed to believe that once your person loses, you lose everything and those who benefit by ascending to the most coveted house on the land get very beautiful benefits. This is looked at as a leverage towards economic progress. We are looking forward to ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I want to speak about the autonomy of our counties. The Bill has tried to put the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning at the centre of all the grants that will be coming from development partners. We ask ourselves what that means on the autonomy of counties to deal directly with donors and development partners. I am privy to many counties that deal directly with development partners for the simple reason that the partners have always believed that there is a lot of procrastination and bureaucracy with the national Government. If you intend to do anything, it ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I am trying to wrap my head around the motivation of this Bill, and I cannot put my finger on anything that would motivate the Senate to come up with a Bill like this one. At what point do we include the conditional grants in the budget? Hon. Kimunya, the Leader of the Majority Party, alluded to it. It has been put here under Clause 5(ii) that they have to include conditional grants in the Appropriation Bill. What happens when the conditional grants extended to counties come a little late? What happens in such a situation? How do you declare? ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Bill every year, the Senate cleverly would want to add us an additional responsibility here, which they will have a leverage to dictate. They have mentioned a figure for 2021, and as Hon. Kimunya said, they will come up with a different figure in 2021/2022, and probably 2022/2023. These are fundamental issues that we cannot run away from. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: We acknowledge the national Government as guarantor of loans, but I ask myself whether we need the same guarantor for grants. In this Bill, the national Government has been put at the centre of every transaction that will come out of it. I know the national Government would want to superintend the functions of the counties probably under the spirit of complementarity or under the spirit of intra-governmental coordination and stuff like that. But this takes away powers of county governments from running their activities prudently without external interference by the national Government. The genesis or the main idea behind ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to rise under Standing Order No.95, noting the mood of the House and the exhaustive nature of this debate, which now borders on repetition, to move that the Mover be called upon to reply. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Yes. view