Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: especially all the partners outside Parliament, who for a long time, have been providing legal aid in places like Kibra, Mathare and Kiandutu, to the poorest of Kenyan society. I think we have entered a new day where these services will be provided with Government support. The National Legal Aid and Awareness Programme (NALEAP) was a very key pilot programme that showed the need and the feasibility of this programme and I pray that even though there are sections of the Bill which we passed that say we will establish legal aid offices in every county progressively, that progressively will ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity to contribute to the Community Land Bill. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: This is an important Bill. It is trying to bring the gains, opportunities and hopes in our Constitution. I represent Kibra Constituency and, as it has already been said by several Members, the definition of who can be an owner of community land and registered group will matter very importantly. A lot of debate has focused on the interests of people in pastoral and rural areas, but very little has been contributed in this debate on the interests and realities of communities that live in urban areas such as the Nubian people of Kibra Constituency; for whom the question of ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: When I look at this Bill, I go back first to the Constitution which talks about community land very clearly. The Constitution states that community land shall vest in and be held by communities identified on the basis of ethnicity, culture or similar community of interest. That is very important. The answer might be here to what many colleagues have asked on the definition of “community”. We should go back and see the angle that the framers and authors of our Constitution were going for on the basis of ethnicity. My argument and thought will be to try and persuade ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Secondly, when it comes to the management of community land, where in many of Kenyan cultures it is the male voices that are heard, we must make sure that in the Third Reading Stage, the amendments made to this Bill will make it clear that there must be women representation in the management of community land. The interests, purposes, benefits or risks of women when community land is well managed or mismanaged are very high compared to the patterns, priorities and prerogatives that you might consider where it is exclusively male leadership of that land. The Bill should address who ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: As I conclude, I would like to keep my contribution brief; with a final thought that this Bill and the debate we are making on it today comes at a very interesting time. Order No. 12 on The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: our Order Paper is about the Report on the term of the Transitional Authority (TA). The Community Land Bill speaks very importantly about the role of county governments in holding land in trust and managing some of the unregistered community lands. Some of those trust lands were held as assets of the former county and municipal assemblies. When you think about the TA being out of business in the next 48 hours when the law expires on 4th March 2016, I wonder if the county governments will take control of those community land assets that were under the control of ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am happy that we, as a Parliament and country, moved ahead to pass the Climate Change Bill. I thank Hon. Ottichilo for his consistency and determination and the Departmental Committee that has helped us get here. As the Member representing Kibra, I also think about the great risks that our country faces. One of the great risks we face even as we think about climate change, new energy sources, green economies and things like those, is the high rate of unemployment in this country. We must make sure that even as we address ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: helped countries like China to rise out of poverty. Africans must not blindly follow the fashion of this climate change debate without looking at our national interests, which would make sure that we grow our economies and create jobs for very many young people in this country who do not have a source of livelihood. We must move soberly while we protect the planet and also take care of the interest of our nation. We should make sure that our economy is growing at a pace in which our young people have jobs and opportunities otherwise we will be in ... view