Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 691 to 700 of 1948.

• 13 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: We will therefore be inviting our hon. colleagues to the birth of Accountability Kenya on 27th March, this year, actually in two weeks’ time. We are expecting His Excellency the President to preside over this occasion. It will also be an opportunity for His Excellency the President to demonstrate and assert the commitment of the Government to work with us and all other actors to raise the bar of accountability in the country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 13 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Talking about coordinated activities, let me also use this opportunity to thank you for the facilitation you have afforded the PAC that has led this National Assembly to become the focal point of accountability in Africa. The PAC now hosts the Secretariat of the East African Association of Public Accounts Committees and African Organization of Public Accounts Committees. These are networks that coordinate accountability activities both in the East African region and on the African Continent. Hon. Speaker has kindly assisted the PAC to set aside facilities including office space to host these organizations together with the newly born Accountability ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker, I find this Statement very dangerous and inflammatory. I actually find it as a very serious assault on the integrity and status of a school that has built a reputation over many years and a school that today is ranked among the premier education centres in the country. The Chair of the Committee says that it was proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the candidates had colluded. The Chair uses words like “collusions”, “cheating”, “irregularity” but he does not tell this House exactly what happened; exactly what these students did that then led to the cancellation. ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Vice- Chairman is a very good friend of mine but he is engaging in very dangerous talk. Is he in order to repeatedly talk about cheating and collusion and then refer to a report that has allegedly been submitted to the school when this honourable House is seized of this matter; a place where he should be telling us that this is the report of this inquiry that tells us what nature of collusion or cheating this is? In the absence of any proof of any inquiry, is the hon. ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, could you please order the Vice-Chair to table that report and then allow us to interrogate it? view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all, I agree with the guidance from the Chair that the hon. Vice-Chair be given more time to prepare more substantively to respond to this House. This is not a small matter. We are dealing with the integrity and reputation of a national institution. Let us not make the mistake of pigeonholing this school in Bondo Constituency, Siaya County. We are dealing with a national school that draws its students from across the length and breadth of our nation. Therefore, this is a matter which I believe all hon. Members in this House, in ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: This is not an isolated case. Obviously, there is a problem at the Kenya National Examinations Council. There are people sleeping on the job and there are invigilators not doing their job. They decide to wake up one morning and victimize innocent students and then allow a Vice-Chair of a Committee to come here and bandy around dangerous terms like “cheating”, “irregularity”, “collusion”, pesky pesky English words. This Vice- Chairman must go back, prepare a comprehensive response to this matter. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: In addition to that, with your guidance, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this matter should be referred to the Committee so that between today and Wednesday, they invite the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology and the Chief Executive Officer of KNEC, so that those of us who have a very keen interest in this matter can interrogate those two gentlemen in the Committee before that report is brought to this House. You could kindly guide us in that respect. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, indeed, last Thursday, I had started moving that this House adopts the Report of PAC on the Government of Kenya accounts for the Financial Years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 13th November, 2013. I already noted that this is a historic moment in the history of this House that we are moving two reports at the same time: Reports from two financial years at the same time. As I do that, let me just join you and thank you for emphasizing the importance of these Reports, the importance of this House ... view