Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: me to think through the Bill. My thanks also go to the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, and the staff of the National Assembly who helped us to clean up the Bill. With those remarks, I second. view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: No. view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We are in a very interesting and important time for Kenya. We are looking at the elections which will determine how the next Government under the new Constitution will look like, and how the next governments in our devolved county system will look like. We have had four years under the new Constitution. Definitely, as this House, we have tried. We have set the ground and the pace in many ways in terms of the breadth of legislation that is needed. Of course, there are some places that we have not quite reached, but ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: When I think about the election regulations and the job of IEBC coming up here, I do not want to go into the specifics and the details. We had a thorough debate on the details of those at a Committee Stage with the proposed amendments, and you saw the push and pull. What strikes me philosophically is our commitment to learn as a country. Do we learn from our own history, or even the very recent history? The Kriegler Commission Report told us that to have a credible election which people will have a sense of trust and confidence in, ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: high? Is the nomination under Article 177 of the Constitution of members into county assemblies actually not affirmative action but permanent apartheid in our political system where people will just say: “We have a solution for getting women in without them getting elected and therefore, let all the seats belong to the men”? We know the culture and history of some parts of this country. view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Therefore, I really think it is an honest discussion that must be heard. Maybe time has run out for it at the moment as we look at the August 8 elections. That is really a shame and I hope that the next Parliament and whoever will be in charge must make sure that--- I know that if we, as the National Super Alliance (NASA) take over, we will be serious about this issue of the gender rule and inclusivity for people with disabilities, the marginalised communities as well as the youth. We will make sure they are all included. So, ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: There has been a huge brouhaha about the question of tallying centres. If what you are doing as the IEBC is solid and good, you should have nothing to hide. You should have no reason to worry about other people verifying and confirming the same or daring to show you where your gaps and mistakes are so you can verify and improve them. I think that is important. I can see the Member for Juja is leaving the House and I wanted to comment on something he brought up in his contribution. Could he be kind enough to allow me ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: The Member for Juja raised a sensitive point about the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nairobi and people whose homes may have been taken and the need for justice and reconciliation in Kenya. I agree with him totally. I feel their pain, but also that is a sensitive issue that we cannot just speak superficially to as politicians when it is people’s real lives. There are people in Rift Valley whose land was taken. The coalition that is ruling this country today is made up of principals from those two communities. That included your people who were burnt in a ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: were not ready to face it in this House and debate it. We were never able to say what justice is. It can be through compensation or through measures to make the people who suffered injuries, the women who were raped and people who were displaced accept where they were resettled by choice and not by coercion or were not underpaid through the funds that were set up. view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: In two State of the Nation Addresses, the President of Kenya came and told us here that there is Kshs10 billion Restorative Justice Fund. Money has been allocated to that in two budget cycles and I believe even in this third budget cycle. There is no list that anyone in the Government can tell us where the Kshs10 billion has gone to from the last time President Uhuru talked about the Kshs10 billion Restorative Justice Fund. There is no regulation or law anchored for the Restorative Justice Fund. This is the case and yet we have the Budget and Appropriations ... view