Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a very serious issue. I want to invite the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to meet parents in some of the primary schools in my constituency. I will list what is being charged. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Let me count, Hon. Deputy Speaker. There is Parent Teachers Association (PTA) fee which is Kshs2,400 per child in some of the schools. Two, there is tuition fee which is being paid in the primary schools. Three, there is class fee. Four, they introduced exam fee for mid-term exams. All these fees are illegal. I want to invite the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to come and meet parents from some of these schools. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a matter which I have raised with the Ministry of Education. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As I conclude, we need to re-think whether we need the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) as an independent body or we need to take it back to the Ministry of Education. I am of the firm opinion that TSC has become a liability to the teachers. Ask those teachers who have retired; it is almost impossible for TSC to process their retirement benefits. They have to go to the national Treasury. It takes them almost a year or two for their dues to be processed. I want to invite the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to visit primary schools ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019 on the policy framework for reforming education and training for sustainable development in Kenya. Initially, most teachers and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) opposed the Competency Based Curriculum. One of the recommendations of the Report was to develop a new education structure based on a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: reformed curriculum. In this country, you cannot say that there is a child who is stupid. Every child has a talent. Our exams have been used to condemn very bright people. An exam is a very interesting thing. It is like taking four animals, namely, an elephant, a monkey, a crocodile and a rabbit and tell them to climb a tree. The monkey will pass that exam. Add a fish and tell them to cross a river. Of course, the fish will win, but that does not mean that all the other animals are stupid. It is time this is ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Another recommendation is to enhance access to education among vulnerable, disadvantaged and other groups. Another recommendation is to expand access to education and training by reducing the cost on households. Members of Parliament, I recall from the 8th Parliament, saw the need of putting up more secondary schools and polytechnics. I recall that when I got elected, we had only 16 secondary schools in my constituency. Today, my constituency has 70 secondary schools. This is something Members of Parliament saw. Across the country, we have more secondary schools and transition from primary to secondary school, as we talk, is on ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second the Motion. At the outset, I want to say that the Motion is long overdue. If we recall, at the height of piracy, this country faced a lot of challenges and so did the neighbouring states. Some of the challenges still exist. Some of them include; piracy, terrorism, illegal fishing, illegal exploration and drug trafficking. The member states faced all these challenges and none had any means of cooperating with a neighbour. So, these two Agreements present an opportunity and we need to move very fast as a Parliament and do our job of ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: that there was not enough exchange of maritime information from member states within that area. Most of them were arrested off the shores of different countries. This Agreement gives us an opportunity under Article 12. It governs the shared maritime information for judicial purposes. Information shared under this Agreement may only be provided for use for judicial proceedings with the consent of the sharing party and limited to the information required. If we are going to fight piracy through judicial purposes, we have to make sure that we have information which is available and can be shared from other member ... view