Jared Odoyo Okelo

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I join my colleagues in thanking PIC for coming up with such a Report. It is startling with various revelations quite unknown to Kenyans. On the same breath, let me thank the Committee Chair, the indomitable outgoing MP of Mvita who...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was making reference to the startling revelation by the Committee on how money was being siphoned using Government agencies, with certain companies being registered abroad while the real owners are Kenyans who live here. It startles everybody...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Temporary Deputy Chairman (Hon. Christopher Omulele) : There is nothing out of order, Hon. Odoyo. You have had your say. Let others also speak. Let us have Hon. Kamket. Let us have Hon. Kizito.

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Basically, I do not see a big variance in these two arguments between the Leader of Majority emeritus and the current Leader of the Majority Party. However, it cures a real malady. Firstly, we are transiting from...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Duale is a bit jittery. I also thank the Committee on Delegated Legislation headed by the serious, Hon. Kamket. Scrap metal industry has thrived for a long period of time and created employment opportunities to hundreds of thousands...

Hon. Jared Okelo (Nyando, ODM) I thank you, Hon. Speaker. I miss my youth! How I wish we would roll back the clock. On behalf of my Chairman for the Special Funds Accounts Committee, Hon. Kathuri Murungi, his Vice-Chair, Hon. Chepkut, together with the members of this Committee - I...

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, Hon. Speaker for the opportunity. I also join my colleagues in expressing my concern that a Supplementary Budget II is coming at such a suspicious moment when we have already started debating the annual estimates and will be passing it soon. Therefore, during...

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) 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 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) 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) 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...