Jared Odoyo Okelo

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the Chairperson, ole Kenta, and Members of the Select Committee on Implementation, I have two Papers to lay before the House. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Sixth Report...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you, very much, Hon. Speaker. I join you and my colleagues in immortalising our departed colleague. Just as you have said, Hon. Kamoti did not present himself as a politician, the bravado that is constantly expressed by Members of this House was far off...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Well, famous and infamous mean the same thing just like flammable and inflammable. I welcome them to the august House. As my sister Gladys Wanga has said, the incoming First Lady of the Republic of Kenya, Mama Ida Odinga schooled there. So, it is a...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Hon. Speaker, in the same breath, allow me to join you in welcoming our beautiful girls from Ogande Girls, which is an infamous school known for its academic prowess and we…

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you very much and allow me to join my sisters, Hon. Wanga, Hon. Millie and all the indomitable women in this House, to welcome Koru Girls Secondary School that is in this House today. Koru Girls is in Muhoroni Constituency and Nyando is the...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I remember the Chief Justice Emeritus, Mr. Mutunga, did say that our Constitution should be progressive. He said this when he was addressing the issue of gender. He said that we should be having an incremental view in each...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Judiciary has been allocated Kshs18 billion at a time when we are going to have a myriad of election petitions pending before various courts right from the magistrates courts all the way to the apex court, the Supreme Court. How...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I am in agreement with the Committee’s proposal. We have just opened it a little wider to incorporate the civil society or the NGOs at the same time denying them an opportunity to have an officer recognized in law...

Hon Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am in agreement with Hon. Millie’s definition of what parent or parenthood is. The mere fact that those who are taking custody of a child have been left out of this definition, is very good. They are guardians so to...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) I thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity, even as I second, to underscore a few points around this Motion that has been advanced by the Committee on Members’ Services and Facilities. If there is anything that we...