Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Speaker. I also wish to join my colleagues in congratulating Hon. Dennitah Ghati. Just this mid-morning, I was with Nominee 001, Hon. ole Sankok and His Excellency the Deputy President at Kijabe Mission Hospital for a function to inaugurate a new department to deal with people living with disability. In addition, I had an eye-opening experience as I listened to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of that hospital, the AIC Cure International Hospital at Kijabe. I left that hospital challenged as a Member of Parliament (MP) and as a leader in this country. Additionally, we did pledge ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: people living with disabilities. Moreover, he told us that some of those things without duty, the cost could go down by up to 50 per cent. Therefore, I will be asking Members of the House that when Nominee 001 and I co-sponsor that Bill next year to exempt especially assistive devices from paying duty to make them affordable, they will support. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: The experience we have just had here with our own gadgets in this House when you gave the Hon. Member for Westlands an opportunity to speak… Unlike me who can shuttle between two microphones, the Hon. Member for Westlands or Hon. Dennitah Ghati cannot shuttle from their seats to another seat. Therefore, those are living examples of the difficulties that people with disabilities have to contend with. Therefore, as I congratulate her, let me also use this opportunity, on behalf of Nominee 001, who is on his way from Kijabe because he had to be left winding up that function ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, I rise to request for a statement pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c) from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research on the exponential increment in tuition fees charged to university students. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Ministry of Education recently announced that tuition fees charge to university students will be increased exponentially from a sum of Kshs16,000 to Kshs48,000 effective from January 2021. The Departmental Committee on Education and Research has openly supported this increase in fees. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in light of the fact that the House is proceeding for a long recess from today and further, given that Standing Order 44(2)(c) empowers the Speaker to either appoint a day for a response or direct that a statement on an issue raised be made on the same day, I wish to request your indulgence that you direct the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to respond to the following issues during this Sitting, this afternoon: (a) Does the Committee support this proposed increase in university fees to our students effective January 2021 in the ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, if you indulge me, I think this is a matter that is very sensitive to many Kenyan parents. Especially those of us with students pursuing university education because of an exponential increment three-fold - from Kshs16,000 to Kshs48,000 per year. This is at a time when MPs will tell you that, six months down the line, they are yet to get even Kshs1 in their National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) account. Most of our students back in our constituencies rely on NG-CDF bursaries to help them pay fees. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: How can the fees be increased three-fold beginning this January in the midst of the COVID pandemic; knowing how much it has affected many parents? Some students even do odd jobs in the universities and communities surrounding them. They have been out of school for the better part of this year and many of them may not afford to reopen school. We may be denying millions of young people an opportunity. This is even as we appreciate that some of the legislative proposals coming with Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) include giving a waiver on repayment of the Higher Education Loans ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: In as much as this is a good idea, we may be shooting ourselves and those students on the foot, if from January we tell them we are increasing their fees from Kshs16,000 to Kshs48,000. Yet, they can wait for another four years without employment and are unable to repay their loans. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I wish to seek your indulgence. If the Chairperson or the Vice-Chair is here, you should direct them to give an answer to Kenyans so that as parents and students break for Christmas, they know what awaits them in January. Does this proposal have the support of the 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