6 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Next Question by the Member for Emuhaya!
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mine is not in any way related to this.
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I would like to move an amendment to Clause 5 to insert Clause 5(i)(a) which talks about promoting research and innovations in the universities. If you look at the Bill, you will see that Clause 5(d) only talks about monitoring the state of university education systems in relation to national development goals. If you look at that, you will see that we are trying to restrict ourselves only to the issues that, as at now, are considered national goals. However, we need to give freedom to universities to think widely, do research in ...
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, with that rewording, I should be comfortable if it reads “to promote quality research and innovation”. That should be okay.
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, while I agree with the Chairman’s recommendation and proposal, it was my feeling to make sure that the universities Commissions and all other bodies are a bit stronger. Any of the appointing authority should be of very high office. That is why I proposed that all this should be done by the President himself, so that we do not get to a stage where at any one time, we have wrangles between people who have been appointed by the President and not coming up with what we want. For a long time, we have had ...
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I do understand these issues. It was considered by the Committee. Even with the feelings of the other Members, I am persuaded to follow their recommendation.
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, while I agree with all the proposals, especially the one raising the penalty to Kshs10 million, I think that this is the first time that we will have a clause that is limiting a fine to “less than.” I do not know whether there is any other part where we have got “not less than.” It should be “not more than,” because if you say “not less than Kshs10 million”, somebody can come and slap you with a fine of about Kshs100 million and it will never be possible. So, we should either make is ...
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I still require some guidance on sub-clause 6, especially on that wording of “not less than;” whether it is “not more than.”
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
35 Wednesday, 5th December, 2012(P)
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, then I would propose that it reads: “To a fine of 5 million Kenya Shillings or 10 million Kenya Shillings and a sentence of imprisonment of either five years or whatever number of years or both fine and imprisonment.” But we need to have a fixed figure because if we leave it open---
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