Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Another right under Article 53 is the right to parental care and protection, but not be detained whenever they commit an offence. The reading of Article 53 is that access to basic education is a basic human right. I am happy these Motions on access to education and bursary can be consolidated. As I talk today, the issue of bursary has become political tokenism where people who have been elected give bursaries to their cronies and campaigners. You will realize that the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) gives out bursary. The national Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) that is ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: I want to comment on this issue of the university funding model. I hope the President's working team will come up with a better model that will assist our learners. Every Saturday in months of September and November, you, Chair, a number of Senators here and I, have fundraised for our children to join universities. Even coming January, we will be in villages to fundraising them to access university education. view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is very unfortunate that our boys and girls depend on benevolence, hospitality and generosity of members of public to access education in this country. We are undermining Article 53 that provides for basic education to each and every child. I am also aware that the Government, through the Ministry of Education, is supposed to construct 16,000 classrooms. These classrooms should be ready by this December. This is to accommodate Grade 9 under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). We know there are challenges of teachers. We do not have enough teachers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: We should be allowing a Member to pin a point of order that has been breached. view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my apologies. You know this is bilingual, but I apologize. I needed to say that the 30,000 interns currently engaged by the PSC have been sending me text messages. I, therefore, withdraw the word ‘ salamiwad’ and replace it with ‘I have received 5,000 messages and I have been greeted by the 30,000 PSC interns who are requesting to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: be transited to be permanent and pensionable, just like their 56,000 colleagues in the Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to appeal to the President, the way he has done with the JSS interns under the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) to direct that the PSC absorb more than 30,000 youthful interns who are being given stipends be transited into permanent and pensionable terms. Why would we have 30,000 interns being trained and mentored under the PSC, then throw them on the streets after six months? Why do we not start a system where we can ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: by Chinua Achebe. In A Man of the People, there was a famous character called Mwalimu Chief Nanga. We do not want to bring a society that looks like that in the AMan of the People, that was being exposed by Chief Nanga. Other books that we read several times included the Ant Hills of Savannah, Aminata and Betrayal in the City . That, even as we struggle with the rollout of CBC, we must allow parents to rest easy. The Ministry of Education has given us a number of schools that were running boarding facilities in this country irregularly. ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: On the issue of bursary, we need to give bursary to our children in secondary schools and universities. I hope the university funding model will be a student-centered model. I am speaking this with the understanding the State of the Nation Address by the President, where he ordered the functionality of Moi University, where I am a proud almamater . We thank the Ministry and the President for those interventions. Reports of the Auditor-General’s on financial status of our many of our universities shows that they are in red. Even Egerton University according to the Office of the Auditor-General’s report ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: On the issue of audit, we need to audit bursaries. Sometimes we are told Ministry of Education gives out bursaries. Wings to fly by Equity, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and others are okay, because those are individual support. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to audit how much bursaries were given under NG-CDF, Global Association Fund (GAF) and the counties. My county is being run down by Governor Sang’. We have never received bursary since 2017. He only brings a dummy cheque of Kshs60 million, take photographs and put them on social media. However, when you ask where are the ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must direct that the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) do a special audit on personal bursary funds that have been given through the unconstitutionality of NG-CDF and county governments. That report should be tabled to the Senate under special audit. The Senate can resolve to direct the OAG to give us a special audit on these bursary funds so that we adhere to Article 53 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. On this Motion on the consolidation of bursary, let us consolidate the entire bursary. Let us make education free from primary, ... view