Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: For instance, on the railway tender we never got straight answers. If the very competent, energetic and professional hon. Kamanda was the substantial Minister for Transport, we would be in a very different place in understanding what is going on with regard to the railway tender project and it would cost us much less. Instead, somebody who does not report to this House and does not report to the Kenyan people in a very direct manner sits out there and earns a double salary, allowances and privileges and cannot be found. They find themselves very busy and send their assistants ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a key point that I must talk about when we think about the debate on the wage bill and wastefulness in our Kenyan Civil Service and our Government system, is the role of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). The KRA, we must give it credit that is due to it, especially in the time that the NARC Government came in under the leadership of President Kibaki and during the last ten years under the leadership and partnership with hon. Raila Odinga. The KRA raised its ability to collect taxes in this country from less than Kshs60 ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: My final point is, the laptops projects was supposed to cost Kshs24 billion. I cannot tell you how delighted I am that, that contract has been cancelled by the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) that reviewed it and found that there was a lot of corruption and irregularities. The Uwezo Fund with Kshs6 billion is going to bring about Kshs.19 million or Kshs20 million per constituency. The laptop project was going to cost Kshs.24 billion. The project is expected to run over a period of five years and bring nothing to our constituencies that we can measure. I argue that ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: education in all our schools, electrification would be done and our young teachers would be employed to teach computers. We would get the exact same benefit at a fraction of the cost. For Kshs.12 billion instead of Kshs.24 billion, we could get through each CDF this year, Kshs.40 million and make sure that every constituency can put electricity and put up computer laboratories in all its schools. We can kick out Members of Parliament and their CDF committees in 2017 if they do not deliver on that promise. So I think there are better ways--- view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think that is a little below the belt. I had a national security matter which I cannot discuss broadly, but I will withdraw, apologise and follow the procedure. I apologise to the House. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is not a point of order, but a quick note of some quests we have around. Hon. Speaker, we have four distinguished Members of this House who benefitted from scholarships from St. Lawrence University, including hon. Joseph Lekuton of Laisamis; hon. Lati Lelelit from Samburu East; hon. Chachu Ganya from North Horr; and myself, hon. Ken Okoth, from Kibra Constituency. For many years, Kenya has had a good relationship with the United States of America (USA), including in exchange programmes and fields such as education, which brought us President Obama. Today we have with us in the ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to oppose this Motion because I am concerned about a number of things. The first thing is a constitutional issue of whether this Bill should have originated from the Senate; are we right to even be debating it at this point? I stand to be guided about that, but that is something that has been a question in my mind. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Your guidance is very helpful to me and a couple of other Members who are concerned about this. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I oppose this Bill because it seems right now that the country--- view