Cyprian Kubai Iringo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: too late. That body will be destroyed or somebody might die. If it is discovered early through information, it can be solved. Presently, you can see what is happening with our ministries. Every day, our courts are parading Government officers left, right and center including officers of this august House who are working for the Parliamentary Service Commission. The other day, they were in court and have been doing those things under the noses of everybody. But because everything has been surrounded by secrecy, nobody could tell what was happening until when it burst is when we get to hear ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: We have the Kenya Gazette, an important Government document where important matters are advertised or published. If you ask Kenyans what is a Kenyan Gazette and how it looks like, I do not think 1 per cent might be aware. Our learned lawyers in the Judiciary might know because that is where you will get them. This is where matters like succession issues are put. That is where, for example, somebody wants to defraud other siblings of their property. They go and publish something in the Kenya Gazette where you secretly collude with the people who publish that document. It ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) has issues. The Chair of the CDF Committee is here. We also have the secretariat. They always ask us to give them proposals. After giving them proposals, it is said that we will get Kshs100 million. The information has been put in black and white and published by the print media. In the following day, the people know that their constituencies got some money. They do not know that Hon. Lessonet will sit on that money for nine months. People in our constituencies do not know them - they know us. The CDF Committee does ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill. From the outset, I thank the Committee for what they have brought to the Floor of this House. We need to support the Bill because education is the backbone of any developing country or community. In Kenya, education has not been taken seriously as it should. We are losing a lot of manpower especially by neglecting bright and needy students to the extent that they drop out of school because of the structures and the systems which we have in our education sector. ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: We are losing many bright children in the villages because of lack of counselling, school fees and follow-up. Parents should be liable for the failure to see that their children are in school. I support that clause in totality. There are parents who wish their children are not admitted to public schools, so that they are not burdened by the demands and requirements which go with education. Parents should be cautioned so that they understand that if they do not provide for their children, the law will take effect. Once they hear they are going to be fined Kshs500,000 or ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support the establishment of boards at the sub-county and county level. They will be responsible for keeping a database of all the bright children in that particular county. It is becoming a norm that children from rich families are the ones who continue with education despite them being bright or not. However, most bright students from poor families end up not finishing their education. That is why the transition rate in most of our schools especially in the rural areas is very high. A Standard One class starts with 100 children and ends up with about ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: they dropped out of school. On top of that, it should be found out whether they were bright students who could have been assisted to become part of the workforce in this country. view
• 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