Cyprian Kubai Iringo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: From the database, when the transition rate comes down, it will be up to the Sub-County Education Board and County Education Board to ask where the children are going. Bright students who cannot afford school fees should be catered for through the bursaries under the CDF or the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. On that note, I will mention the Ministry’s bursaries which used to assist our children. For the last two years, we have not had this money and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is not telling us what happened to this Fund. The Fund used ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: I will oppose Clause 37 on holiday tuition. We are amending the Act and there are some things which we do not need to put into law. Tuition is something which can be done through a memo from the Ministry or even from the sub-county or county office. Each area should be looked at in its own merit. Some schools are over-staffed either because of their locality or because of the ties the head teacher or principal may have with the TSC. In the marginalized areas like North Eastern, there is a shortage of teachers. Parents employ teachers and they ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: There is the issue of limiting the term of the board of management of schools. Some areas, especially in the rural areas, have very few wise men who are mentors in these schools. You will find a school is started and the people who are mentoring the students are three, four or five. Most of the time, they are relied on for the progress and development of that school. If we limit the term in areas where we have only five or 10 people who have attained O-Level education, then we are going to kill some of these schools. If ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Finally, there is the issue of classification or categorisation of schools and I had even queried this with the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. Schools in the same geographical area need to be categorised the same, so that in the distribution of teachers, there is no skewed way of doing it. You will find that one school is categorised as being in the marginalized area where hardship allowance is paid but another one does not fall under the marginalized area and therefore, the hardship allowance is not paid. These teachers end up seeking to be transferred to where ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: teachers. I call for equitable distribution of teachers geographically, so that some schools do not suffer while others are benefiting from more teachers. view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Bill. view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Bill. At the outset, I would like to state that hon. Members should pass this Bill. This is because it brings about recognition and seeks to protect our various cultures and traditions. Each and every community of this world, Africa and Kenya in particular, has rich historical culture which was largely affected by the onset of civilization brought about by western cultures. Our cultures have been eroded by the belief that being westernised is the way to go. I believe that even before foreigners came ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: down the drain and this rich culture is getting eroded. At the end of the day, some of us who have embraced the western way of life think that whatever was done by our forefathers was out of the norm, sinful or not the right way. But with this Bill and the protection of those cultural and traditional ways of life, we can retrace what got lost and bring back the culture, especially that which is unique to us to be enshrined and protected for future generations and for those who do not know what was being done in the ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, in Meru, we have a cultural practice whereby if you have wronged somebody and you have to swear that you are going to give the truth about an incident, you hold your brother’s ear. Once you do that, it is like the Christians lifting the Bible and swearing to tell the truth. But if you tell a young child or somebody born in town to hold his brother’s ear and say the truth, he or she might laugh because he or she does not see the sense in it. But if you ask a man of 60 ... view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Those cultures should be protected. Look at the Maasai way of life, they have got a very rich culture which has been penetrated by westerners to the extent that you find Wazungus dressing like Maasais. We have seen whites coming all the way from Europe to come and see the Maasai jump the way they do or see them practise their traditions like chewing meat in the bush. They do those things. This is a rich culture which can be used to attract tourists. view