4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
THAT, the mass failure has caused frustrations and depression to the students who are eager to be admitted to the bar and ready to practise but they have used all their money in re-sitting the exams, year in, year out;
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
THAT, there is no other effort that has been made to address this issue or it is not pending in any constitutional body, commission or any court of law.
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
WHEREFORE, your humble petitioners pray that the Senate investigates this matter and makes appropriate recommendation thereon, with a view to- (i) Conducting investigations on the Kenya School of Law on the structures and systems of instruction in place that could be a contribution to the mass failures. (ii) Conducting investigations on the finances at the Council of Legal Education and the Kenya School of Law with a view to outlawing payment of fees for re-sits and remarking so as to block the incentive to fail students in masses. (iii) That the Senate to initiate a serious audit of finances at ...
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22 May 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I thank Sen. Sakaja for bringing this Statement. It is unfortunate that nowadays most of the Government policies are anti-young people. it seems that the technocrats who should help in implementing the Executive agenda are now busy churning out anti-people policies such as the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) and banning the importation of vehicles which were manufactured more than seven years ago, yet that is a business that employs over 2 million young people. The National Employment Authority is supposed to assist in creation of job opportunities for young people in this country ...
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22 May 2019 in Senate:
The policy that was being outlined a few days ago should protect the young people from unnecessary anti-youth policies that we have.
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22 May 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Yesterday I congratulated the sponsors of this Bill; Sen. Sakaja and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.
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22 May 2019 in Senate:
This Bill could not have come to the House at a better time than now, especially when we have been having tussles regarding Bills that have been assented to by the President in accordance to Article 116 of the Constitution of Kenya. The most recent one which is still in our memories is the assent by the President of the Health Act. When you look at the Fourth Schedule, one of the main functions that have been devolved is the health function.
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22 May 2019 in Senate:
This is a timely Bill that will allow us to sort out many differences that we have been having between the National Assembly and the Senate because the National Assembly has become a death bed of Bills that originate from the Senate. The intention of the Senate has always been to ensure we generate and process the Bills that will assist in oiling or spurring devolution in this country. We agreed that devolution should grow and there could be some legislation and policy proposals that we need to put in place to ensure that we allow devolution to grow and ...
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22 May 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 8 talks about the criteria for Bills concerning counties. I think there is a wrong notion in this country. Everybody lives in a county. If Nairobi City County, for example, was not a county, then we would say that people living in a county would not be affected. If my memory serves me right, when the Senate The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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