Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 951 to 960 of 979.

• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir. Actually, I have two requests. Pursuant to Standing Order 44 (2)(c), I wish to request a statement from the Chairperson of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations regarding the operations of the Kenya Defence Forces deployed in Somalia. Hon. Speaker, last week the British Government was compelled through a suit to compensate Mau Mau veterans to the tune of Kshs2.6 billion for the harm visited on Kenyans during the state of emergency from 1952 to 1959. So that the Kenya Government is not compelled to settle similar claims in future arising from malpractices, if ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir. Actually, I have two requests. Pursuant to Standing Order 44 (2) (c), I wish to request a statement from the Chairperson of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations regarding the operations of the Kenya Defence Forces deployed in Somalia. Hon. Speaker, last week the British Government was compelled through a suit to compensate Mau Mau veterans to the tune of Kshs2.6 billion for the harm visited on Kenyans during the state of emergency from 1952 to 1959. So that the Kenya Government is not compelled to settle similar claims in future arising from malpractices, ... view
• 11 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute to the debate on the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I wish to thank all the Departmental Committees that have worked very hard to bring us this far and make sure that we meet the deadlines. I am very concerned as a Member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology, as I educate myself about the sense of priorities that we have given or not given to the education sector. If you look at Annex 1, page 17, the total amount of cuts that were made ... view
• 11 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: our future. Their time to get education is perishable and they cannot sit around and be denied. I would like, in particular, to point out priority areas that the Committee on Education, Research and Technology mentioned and hoped that the Budget and Appropriations Committee would have considered as a budgeting and implementation priority. The professors, lecturers and educators are training our young people to make sure that they are ready for the job market and yet, their money is cut by a shortfall of Kshs1.8 billion. This is a strike in waiting. When lecturers go on strike, we will lose ... view
• 11 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: benefit the whole country. We are politicians here. My friends, this is where we are going to get votes. Let us make sure that our young people get free secondary education so that, in 2017, they will appreciate that we had a Jubilee Government policy and that this Parliament passed budgets that responded to their needs. That way, the Jubilee Government may be voted in a second time. That is free advice from me. With those few remarks, I want to thank the Committee for doing good groundwork and pulling it all together in a coherent way. There is a ... view
• 11 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute to the debate on the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I wish to thank all the Departmental Committees that have worked very hard to bring us this far and make sure that we meet the deadlines. I am very concerned as a Member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology, as I educate myself about the sense of priorities that we have given or not given to the education sector. If you look at Annex 1, page 17, the total amount of cuts that were made ... view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute to this Motion with a quick comment that noting that it is debate about wealth; the road to wealth is built with good intentions, this Motion is filled with many good intentions for which we must be realistic on the level of funding implications that it will have. view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: While I support the necessity of good infrastructure for commerce, agriculture, job creation and development of our nation, the way the Motion is currently drafted makes it a little bit hard to support it because you cannot plan every financial year for 249 constituencies for a specific number of kilometers as provided for here. So, I think that this is something that should be referred to the relevant Committee to freshen a little bit because I am 100 per cent in support of improvement of our infrastructure for all the good reasons highlighted here namely, to promote commerce, agriculture and ... view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, and the roads that led them to detention camps which have led them to traumatic memories of a 50 years generation later. view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will stick to relevancy. I insisted on bringing up the matter because it is a current issue that has been settled today. It has only come to our attention and we have a new Government in place. Our Mau Mau veterans fought on the long road to freedom for our nation and our Independence and here we are talking about a new Government in place that clearly has not stated what its policy is on this. The Mau Mau case was taken privately through private efforts. It has been a long legal journey that ... view