Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: It is a good decision to have this Protocol to strengthen the EAC by working together. We need to have a ready market within even before we look outside the EAC. I support. view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Actually, I am the owner of the Bill and I am grateful for an opportunity to add a word to it. I want to thank Members for having passed the Bill and accepted the Presidential Memorandum as it is. I want to take this opportunity to allay the fears of my friend Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo, that, indeed, these are not newly introduced functions. In the amendment stage, there was a technical error such that, at the end of it all, we had two clauses dealing with the composition of the Board in Clause 4 ... view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Okay. I will not take too much time. I just want to tell Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo that at no time will an engineering technologist be an engineer and vice versa . I support and thank Hon. Members for passing the Bill as it is. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this very important Bill. I rise to support the Kenya Roads Bill, 2015. It basically talks about classification of roads. This is a long overdue exercise, but it is not too late. There is always the right time for everything. view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Infrastructure is one of the basic services comparable to those of health, education and water. Now that we know who is supposed to do which roads, it will enhance the idea of accountability. Before this classification, as mentioned by some Members, you would find a road that had been done by KeRRA being redone by the county government. They ended up with very few kilometres being done as opposed to expanding the roads network in the rural area. view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: As they embark on providing or developing infrastructure, priority needs to be given to inroads that serve very important facilities such as health centres. In Bomet, very many roads are impassable and prospective mothers really suffer. You can imagine an expectant mother in labour pain being transported on a boda boda . One can only expect what would happen. We have also seen roads that serve primary schools being impassable. During the rainy season like what is going on now, streams cut off the roads and the young ones cannot cross the gullies that are created by the flowing water. ... view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The Authorities concerned should use the road levy to repair and maintain roads frequently to avoid doing them afresh. I am also happy with Clause 92(b) that talks about compensation. Sometimes members of the public are requested to surrender their pieces of land for the purpose of constructing roads to the right width. I emphasise that before the roads are constructed, the owners of the land should be compensated. For example, the second phase of the Sotik to Ndanai Road is from Ndanai to Gorgor. I do not have the full information, but speculations are that the owners of the ... view
• 8 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I stand here to second the Motion that seeks to amend Section 10 of the Kenya National Examination Council Act that deals with the functions of KNEC. This Bill proposes that besides setting, administering or conducting national examinations, KNEC should rank individuals and schools based on their performance. From the outset, the exercise of ranking is a double-edged sword. It is a necessary evil. This exercise used to be done before, but it lacked structure. It was not fair that different types of schools were ranked on the same platform. ... view
• 8 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Secondly, those who fail to pass or get good marks are sometimes stigmatised because they are branded as failures. In this country, we had a situation where a pupil committed suicide simply because she could not attain good marks to propel her to secondary school. Teachers, on the other hand, are usually blamed for sleeping on the job when students do not pass examinations. Passing or failing examinations is a complex issue. There are certain social, cultural and other physical conditions that contribute to whether pupils or students pass examinations. Socially, we have nomadic communities. In some parts of the ... view
• 8 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: As I end, I received a transfer request from a teacher over the weekend which stated that “if I am in school “A” and the pupils do not perform, I will never be promoted. I want a transfer to a school where I can be promoted”. This has been used wrongly. Let us structure ranking and use it well. I second. view