Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. On the Report on the realisation of national values and principles of governance, indeed, the emphasis of public participation in our Constitution is very key in the sense that one would not respect the values and the principles that are formed if they do not participate in it. When you make laws for the people, they have to participate and understand in order to have ownership. Secondly, I recall that during the good days in school, we were taught about national values. There was a subject known as Civic ... view
• 17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to the Tax Procedures Bill 2015. From the outset, I support the Bill because Kenya is a developing country, which relies heavily on local revenue for provision of services. If this revenue is not collected in form of taxes, then certain services are going to suffer for lack of resources. Having been a colony, we inherited many laws that were from our masters, and since then these laws have been amended to conform to our needs. Some of them are no longer tenable. Therefore, this Tax Procedures Bill is timely ... view
• 17 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: in taxpayers and bring effectiveness, so that there are no overlaps. When you are paying for a certain month, all should then come at that particular month for easy auditing, record keeping and easy filing. I want to support the Bill. It is high time we developed centralised records. I want to recall that in this House, we passed a piece of legislation that would ensure that the logging in of your identity card should bring out all your records like birth certificate, academic qualifications and tax payments. If this is effected, then we will minimise the number of people ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Bill provides for the regulation of the practice, as well as the standards, of engineering technologists and technicians. It also provides for the powers, composition and functions of engineering technologists and technicians. The prevailing situation in Kenya is such that there is no other law or Act that regulates the engineering profession. Many of us are aware that the Engineering Act created the Engineering Board of Kenya, which regulates the engineers. Just for information, it is good to note that the engineering profession is categorized into several cadres. We have professional ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: While engineers, who form a sub-sector of the engineering profession, are regulated through the Engineers Act by the Engineers Board of Kenya, the engineering technologists and technicians remain unregulated and yet, those different cadres work closely together. Just to expound further on how those professions relate to one another, engineers, for example, are designers. They can, for example, design a phone and state its measurements. Then the technologists will come in to put that design into a physical object. When that physical object needs some repair, the technician comes in to repair. So, they work together and they are closely ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: the medical profession has gone down to regulate the various cadres. This House has passed about seven Bills that have become Acts in the medical profession. We have the Doctors and Dentists Act, the pharmacists, the nurses and every cadre has its regulatory body. Most recently in this House, we passed the Physiotherapists Bill, which was the latest in that medical line. Therefore, this is what this Bill aims to do; to create a regulatory body for the engineering technologists and technicians under that engineering profession. After the promulgation of our Constitution, several sectors had to re-align their policies particularly ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Many a times when the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results are released, so many join Form One. About a third proceeds to Form One but for the two thirds, one will always ask where exactly they go. Similarly, when they get to Form Four again, about a third joins the universities. You ask yourself: “Where are the other two thirds?” So, the answer here lies on the fact that we have not rightly promoted TVET because parents and students do not quite understand it. It is because we have given it negative publicity. Whenever a student does not ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: For our developing country, this is what we need. We have a very big problem of unemployment. We have a blueprint - Vision 2030 - which talks about innovation and industrialisation. There is no way that we can achieve this if we do not produce the right persons to man our industries. I want to give an example of Malaysia. Malaysia chose to emphasise on TVET. They said: “We are going to specialise on one thing which is making handkerchiefs.” They specialised in that. Next, they went to another item. I bet that in Kenya, if we are to be ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. I stand guided, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to simply say that, as I mentioned earlier, the Bill seeks to have a regulatory body to regulate the engineering technicians and technologists. At the moment, there is no such body. We have had problems even in the courses that are being undertaken at the Technical University of Kenya because once they graduate, they cannot get employment due to that fact that they cannot be recognised because there is no registration body. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Just like any other Bill that forms a regulatory body, the Bill has got sections. One section is for who exactly is to be registered. We still have a step further, during the Third Reading, where we can do amendments. I will call Members to amend such that there are clear roles that will be specific for the engineering technicians and technologists. view