Cyrus Khwa Shakhalaga Jirongo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 71 to 80 of 103.

• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: President. If you look at the three people who are elected, the one who is mostly in contact with the Kenyan population is normally the councillor. Members of Parliament are mostly in Nairobi and they rely on their councillors on the ground to move around and ensure that they respond to the social problems that bedevil our people. It is, therefore, unfair for the President and Members of Parliament to be paid and, yet, other leaders, who are the councillors, are ignored. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: This country cannot claim to lack resources to pay the councillors. If you look at our Budget, Kshs117 billion is allocated to support State corporations and parastatals that do not even contribute Kshs10 to the Exchequer. This is a huge amount of money that goes to waste. If you look at the other votes, you can easily come up with close to Kshs200 billion which our Government wastes. We cannot be wasting this amount of money when very many cadres that provide critical services to this country are not well taken care of. We are not only talking about councillors, ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to urge hon. Linturi to move swiftly and draft a Bill to ensure that councillors in this country are treated like elected leaders. They must be treated like everyone of us who is elected. They campaign and are voted for. They are actually the backbone of any politics in this country. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: As I support this Motion, I hope that in the remuneration of councillors we will be reasonable, bearing in mind what the President, Ministers and Members of Parliament earn. We should be reasonable and ensure that we put councillors in a position to handle the many social problems they deal with on a daily basis. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I beg to support. view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like the Assistant Minister to clarify whether there is a proper procedure on how to acquire private land, if the Government so wishes. Despite the fact that many Ministries are involved in what is happening, there is a proper procedure of acquisition of private land. These people have title deeds. Unless the Kenya Government does not recognise title deeds, why would the Ministry go ahead to demolish people's property without using the relevant procedures laid down to acquire compulsorily, any property they so wish to use? view
• 21 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Minister clarify if before that investment they wrote to the Treasury for approval? Did the Treasury approve all these investments? view
• 9 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On the same day, there was an exchange in this House and ignorance is no defence. I believe once you have been kicked out of this House as you have explained, you become a stranger. On that particular day, certain things happened and a stranger went and held a press conference within the precincts of Parliament and cast certain aspersions talking about the Muslim community and literally going back to where we are trying to come from. He talked about sections, tribalism and all those kind of things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we ... view
• 7 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. While appreciating the efforts the Ministry of Education is doing in ensuring that education is improved in our country and that as many children as possible get an opportunity to get education, there are few issues which I feel the Ministry needs to look at very seriously. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we talk about free primary education and we offer the same to children in Nairobi, Nyanza, Western and Rift Valley provinces, they are able to eat, wake up in the morning and go to school. What about the children in Turkana? The children in ... view
• 7 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: and, therefore, they must sign performance contracts. I want to believe that this is a wrong approach in handling teachers, bearing in mind that primary school teachers give us enough graduands and as a Government we have never had the capacity to offer enough spaces for these children in secondary schools. The secondary school teachers give us enough graduands to go to universities and as a Government, we have always failed to provide enough space in universities. The university lecturers also give us enough graduates and as a Government we have always been unable to provide employment to them. It ... view