Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am happy to rise and give support to the Report of the Committee and thank the members for their dedication. The Report raises a couple of very salient issues about land management in this country. We had a vision in the Constitution about how land management in this country would be done, the responsibilities of the Ministry, the responsibilities of NLC, and the responsibilities of the county governments. This Report indicates to us that we still have not figured it out properly. The NLC is attempting to take too much responsibility and yet ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: I mention these as we talk about land issues to tell you that things are bad. They are far from rosy. The leadership of NLC and the Ministry need to sit and engage properly. Whenever they engage on sensitive land issues, it is only fair that they engage representatives of the people, from MCAs to the governors at the county levels who have got prerogative and a say on land issues, to the elected Members of Parliament. We can give them feedback. We have heard a lot of corruption going on in this country recently. When you think about corruption, ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: exams. They are clean and credible exams that will help our children in future. We need people like them to come into Government. And we must support them regardless of whether we are in CORD or Jubilee, to do a good job for Kenyans. Then we reduce the tensions. In the education, when the children’s rights were being betrayed and exams were being leaked, it was only the rich who had access. It was unfair. We were cheating our children because these exams lose credibility. If you try to go to Makerere University or the University of Dar es Salaam ... view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Petition. As Hon. Rasso said, this issue of ensuring that our police and security forces are best trained does not apply to this pertinent issue right now of allocation of land and site, but it is also in the nature and mentality of their training. We happen to be in a new constitutional dispensation in which we expect that our police forces, apart from the basic skills and security skills they have, bear the mentality and attitude about promoting human rights, protecting human rights and ensuring Kenyans enjoy fully all ... view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker and I hope that we all uphold respect for our colleagues and do not participate in gender- based violence. view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thank the Member for bringing this Motion. It is an important Motion on the issue of making sure that every school has a competent bursar to manage its finances. We have FPE in this country on paper and we have had it for about 14 years. In my Kibra Constituency, unfortunately, parents do not know what FPE is. There is shortage of teachers in schools that were centres of excellence like Olympic Primary School. There has been overcrowding of students. The student teacher ratio has gone up from about 1 to 40 to about ... view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: On the issue of text books, the Government, through the FPE, should provide adequate resources for learning in schools. The reality is that there are no text books in schools. Parents have to pay. The Kshs1,400 that comes in as capitation is too little to meet the needs that are required in a market of text book production in this country that is a cartel. The Government needs to think about how school funds are managed. I am mentioning it in the context of the FPE which is a theory and a promise. It is not a reality on the ... view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: feeding programmes. They also pay money to buy fuel and other items to make sure the school feeding programmes are running. view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: We have to be honest and call the FPE by a different name like subsidised primary education and say what parents are paying and how much it is per year. If it is really free, the CS (CS) in charge must make sure it is happening that way and all Government officers at every level should make sure that the children have access to free and compulsory basic education. view
• 30 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: While this Motion is good in the sense that it wants to have a bursar recruited in every school, there are some small schools that have 200 or 400 children. When you add one extra staff with an accounts qualification to do that job, it is minimal. This would not be a full time job and if you think about the funding that is being handled with a capitation of Kshs1,400 per child in a school of a 1000 children, it is a substantial amount of money of about a Kshs1 million. If you think about the cost of hiring ... view