Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The role of the Government Chemist must be looked at because the National Coroners Service will comprise of people who are experts in Forensic Pathology. But if you want justice in death cases, you must think of it as a three legged stool, which one part relies on the police who do the criminalistics, the other relies on some experts who might do ballistics where cases of bullets are involved, but you are relying also on the science and the evidence--- view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you. I am sorry, I did not see the light come on to warn me that my time had run out. So, I will try to run through my two minutes carefully and do the highlights. We need to ensure that the Government Chemist helps and assists once the evidence has been taken by the forensic pathologists in the coroner’s office is done. The two issues of helping this office to be robust and independent is the question of its budgeting lines and making sure it is something that will be budgeted for and spoken for through the Consolidated ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The other Members will touch on this Bill, but I think Kenyans are interested and would have loved to put it on notice. For instance, what type of death is deemed suspicious, that will have to be reported and investigated? So, it is any death that has a matter of violence, medical negligence, misconduct, malpractice, cases of suicide, homicide and accidents, deaths during pregnancy or circumstances that may be attributable to Section 24 of the Bill. It talks about deaths from disease or sickness which were not treated by legally qualified medical practitioners. Occupation and work place related deaths need ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of information. view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am happy to inform Hon. Cecilia Ngetich that those two key provisions she is talking about on how to preserve a crime scene and collection of forensic evidence are well covered in the Bill in Section 29. Also, the different roles of the police, on how to secure a place until the Coroners Service comes to do their part are covered in the Bill. So, there will be good teamwork on who is supposed to do what and it is covered in the Bill and also, public awareness on how not to compromise ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute to this important Motion for Adjournment by Hon. Ochieng of Ugenya. It is a very timely Motion. I represent the people of Kibra Constituency in Nairobi where an element of this story is not well covered often enough. I am happy to bring it to the attention of the nation that urban hunger is a reality. Children are starving in our schools. School feeding programmes have been mentioned. The Member for Nyeri mentioned the plight of women who are single mothers raising families on little incomes. You just need to get ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: or livestock to rely on as a second backup. You are stuck. If you need anything, you must spend money. The reality of urban hunger is seen in our schools. I represent the biggest school in this country, the Olympic Primary School, which has about 4,500 children from Class One to Class Eight. That is the biggest public primary school. I would invite even the Cabinet Secretary coordinating the relief projects to just step in there, meet the teachers, the Parents Teachers Association (PTA), Board of Management (BoM) and see what the situation is for all those children coming in ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have noticed that there is a great campaign to ask Kenyans, that we are all Kenyans, as we did a few years ago, to give Kshs1 billion to the Kenya Red Cross. I disagree with that because the Kenya Red Cross is founded by the Kenya Red Cross Society Act, an Act of this Parliament. Our Government can budget for it. With Kshs6 billion that we are told is for relief food, I am shocked that the Kenya Red Cross is still running campaigns to look for money in a certified emergency when the Government could ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: That is a charity and bandage approach. It is not long-term or sustainable. I say that humbly in the context that we have just bought Kshs45 billion worth of military planes. Our country might be at war with the Al Shabaab and other people, but to think we have Kshs45 billion and that the Kenya Red Cross needs relief aid to do a good job, and we are asking the public to send money by M-Pesa of Kshs1 billion, is not good. That to me is shocking and sad The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: knowing that the culture of corruption still continues. The Afya House corruption scandal was alleged to be worth Kshs5 billion in just one Ministry. Never mention the others. It is time we had a more comprehensive approach to national security and emerging threats. Emergency threats in this age include climate change, global warming, drug resistance, disease varieties and food security. Climate change is happening and water issues that will bring conflicts between communities, as we are seeing already over grazing lands in places like Laikipia and Samburu and also on international borders, are on the increase. We share borders with ... view