Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Standing Order No.106 tells us that we need to stick to relevance. I sense the mood of the House is that this thing has had the life debated out of it and hon. Members are saying things which are not relevant. We have gone from containers and NACADA issues to everything about corruption. Would I be in order to call upon the Mover to reply? view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I just want to contribute. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I am blessed with height and this microphone is short. In Clause 9, I will agree with hon. Chepkong’a about the cleaning up of the first Clause and making it tidier. However, I have a problem with the deletion of sub-clause 3. Sub-clause 3 as I understood it is basically a whistle-blower mechanism and protection. To take that out diminishes what was to be achieved by giving people the ability to feel comfortable that they can reveal suspected cases of domestic abuse and that if they are in possession of information, they would not ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, I rise to respectively but vehemently disagree with the Chairman of the Committee and my colleague Member for Ndhiwa because Clause 10(a)(1) says:- view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: “A person who is in a domestic relationship with another person may apply to court for a protection order in respect of that other person.” view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: This is a more protective approach to this issue rather than to limit which people are eligible to get protection orders. I will give you a practical example of ex-partners who happen to be stockers. You are divorced from somebody or you broke up with somebody yet that person haunts you at your place of work, business or comes to your new house and where you have a new relationship and new family, he keeps bothering you. You should be covered. Let us be magnanimous. We have already defined the range of persons who are protected as domestic partners. Let ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Please tell me why that is important. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Well, law making is complex and we will engage in the complexities as they go. I beg to understand where and what you are guiding me to--- view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: That is why I was insisting for Clause 10(1) to stay as it is. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: No, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view