Calist Mwatela

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg the indulgence of the House that the answer that I have is lengthy considering the nature of the Question. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) (i) An estimated 3.54 million primary school pupils failed to get chances in Form 1 admissions from 1998 to 2010. (ii) There is a shortage of 66,000 teachers in both primary and secondary schools. Of these, 43,000 are for primary and 23,000 for secondary schools. Turkana Central District has a total shortage of 285 teachers. Of these, 249 are for primary schools and 36 are for secondary schools. ... view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (b) There is an estimated population of 588,126 of school aged children out of school. This is due to poverty, drought, long distances from school establishments, chronic food insecurity, hardship conditions, poor school facilities and infrastructure, ignorance by parents, traditional and nomadic lifestyle and HIV/AIDS pandemic. All view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in reference to the money disbursed for infrastructure development, we, in the Ministry, are willing to provide detailed information as regards which particular schools have benefited from the amounts that we have disbursed. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have enumerated in this lengthy answer the measures that the Ministry is employing to ensure that we have adequate schools for our pupils. I would only say that it would be prudent for all hon. Members to work very closely with the Ministry using the CDF funds to expand the existing opportunities in their constituencies. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fully concur with hon. Member that we are really in dire need of extra teachers. The proposal by the Government to hire extra manpower was stifled by the action of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) which has interfered with the--- view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we were going to recruit an extra 50 primary school teachers and ten secondary school teachers in every constituency. This has not happened purely because of the action taken by the KNUT. We hope – and we are negotiating with the KNUT – that this matter can be brought to an end so that we can, at least, alleviate the problem. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has been trying. If we had hired 50,000 teachers per constituency, this would definitely have alleviated the problem of shortage of manpower in primary schools. That was in excess of extra teachers apart from regular hiring. The ten teachers for secondary schools were also in excess of the regular hiring. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we may not be 100 per cent, but we deliberately put some efforts to address this problem. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has more than Kshs1.6 billion set aside for that purpose. However, we will employ teachers immediately the KNUT withdraws the case from court. That is stifling the exercise. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, I am sure that if we got the matter sorted out between us and the KNUT, within the next few months, we will employ the extra ten teachers for the secondary schools which have been outstanding. In the next financial year, we will also employ more teachers to ease the current shortage. view