Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, please allow me just one more minute. I see my time is running out. I want to make one or two quick things. In Kibra, we are talking about peaceful campaigns and there has been insinuations that--- view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will use my minute carefully to just make my final point. I want to talk to the young people of this country. There have been insinuations and attacks that I think some are exaggerated and unwarranted about my party of ODM. There have been allegations of corruption and things like that, which were not substantiated. I think people of honour and dignity such as Hon. Tim Wanyonyi, one of the best Members of Parliament in Nairobi County, if not the best in this Parliament we have served in, in his outreach and service ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: democracy is your vote. Make sure you cast it. Adopt a polling centre. Be vigilant about how the polls are conducted there and how they are counted and that way, we will make sure that the results that are relayed tally with what happened in the polling centre and reflect the wishes of the people. That way, we will have a credible election, justice and peace. God bless you. Thank you. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Nyamweya is not putting it on record correctly. Clause 2 which he is not quoting states in part that this Bill shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from 1st July 2016, for the services and purposes specified in the schedule. While this comes into action in July 2017, it could be used to pay for things that were already spent a few months ago even last year. That is all I wanted to inform him but since he did not want information, I wanted to put it on record that I do not think he is reading ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I respect the request by the Budget and Appropriations Committee that we need to do something on the Equalisation Bill. So, I will be very brief in my contribution. First, Hon. Makau has mentioned something about protecting our industry. I support that. We have seen disconcert when it comes to how much money we are raising, how many jobs we are creating and also the co-ordination between Ministries. I think we really need to follow through on the audit of the Constitution and see where we can reduce the costs. If you look at the cost ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: However, I think in terms of protecting the industries and the jobs, we have to balance. Recently, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Environment threatened to ban the use of plastic bags in Kenya when it is a much more useful approach to go with reducing, reusing and recycling. That will create more jobs of young people who can be taxed rather than shutting down the few existing factory jobs in the plastic sector and the follow up jobs. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: I specifically wanted to comment on the money for education and the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC). I know we allocated and now we are appropriating. This issue is very dear to me. I am the Member of Parliament for the TSC in Upper Hill in Kibra Constituency and the TSC is not getting the amount of money they need. I am pretty sure they are not pushing enough because the shortage of teachers in this country is about 80,000 and we are replacing and hiring at about just 5,000 per year. So, we are short-changing the children in basic education, ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: My last point is on the issue of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). Again, when we budgeted, it came from the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I think that is a very sensitive commission and the Bill of Rights in our Constitution and the job of the KNCHR is to make sure the freedoms and rights of Kenyans are promoted and protected widely. There are extrajudicial killings of poor youths in slums of Nairobi by the police, in places like Eastleigh and Kibra day in, day out. We need to get ... view