Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: resettling refugees? It says specifically, in the integration of refugees in the host communities, the director shall, in cooperation with UNHCR and other organisations involved in the assistance rate, ensure that special attention is given to women, children and persons with disabilities. That sentence is very protective and harmless. If you think about it, it adds to the Bill. Deleting it takes away something critical. So I beg the Chair to please drop this amendment. Let this sentence stay there because it provides more protection in a different set of circumstances and issues we are dealing with. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: resettling refugees? It says specifically, in the integration of refugees in the host communities, the director shall, in cooperation with UNHCR and other organisations involved in the assistance rate, ensure that special attention is given to women, children and persons with disabilities. That sentence is very protective and harmless. If you think about it, it adds to the Bill. Deleting it takes away something critical. So I beg the Chair to please drop this amendment. Let this sentence stay there because it provides more protection in a different set of circumstances and issues we are dealing with. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: You have just heard the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security say that the leaders of Somalia, a country with which we trade and share a border, and who have very serious foreign and diplomatic relations, are not serious. Saying that on the Floor of the House and putting it on the HANSARD is totally out of order. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: You have just heard the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security say that the leaders of Somalia, a country with which we trade and share a border, and who have very serious foreign and diplomatic relations, are not serious. Saying that on the Floor of the House and putting it on the HANSARD is totally out of order. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: He is out of order for misleading the House that we are creating a fund to attract refugees. He has read this Bill selectively. If you take him to Clause 55, the Refugees Trust Fund shall be established. That clause also shows how it shall be managed. He has been arguing consistently for the Director of the Refugee Secretariat to have powers. His amendment says precisely that it is the Director who shall be the chairperson. The representatives are there. He is not telling us what problem he has with any of these representatives, including the representatives of the CS ... view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: He is out of order for misleading the House that we are creating a fund to attract refugees. He has read this Bill selectively. If you take him to Clause 55, the Refugees Trust Fund shall be established. That clause also shows how it shall be managed. He has been arguing consistently for the Director of the Refugee Secretariat to have powers. His amendment says precisely that it is the Director who shall be the chairperson. The representatives are there. He is not telling us what problem he has with any of these representatives, including the representatives of the CS ... view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: I beg the House. He is in order to not discuss our foreign policy in this manner but he is also out of order to mislead the House. I support this. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: I beg the House. He is in order to not discuss our foreign policy in this manner but he is also out of order to mislead the House. I support this. view