Dalmas Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to make a few observations. Every morning, God gives us several hundreds of new children randomly distributed throughout the country. All those children are capable of being The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 26 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: taught. The difference in the country is in the teaching. At primary school level, some teachers can literally kill a whole clan because the children of that clan go to one primary school. If the head is also a weak one and the situation continues for ten years, the teachers have killed an entire generation of the products of that particular clan. Now that the TSC is a complete Commission, we expect them to effectively manage the teachers. For example, there are hardship areas in this country and the big difference could have been if the children from those areas ... view
• 26 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: It is time we insisted that the mean standard scores in schools must be of a particular minimum. I know some schools which have never had a mean score of above 250 year-in, year-out. We are managing a consumption-driven economy and since 1997, the teachers have been making demands for huge pay increases. There is no matching productivity. That productivity should be exercised by the new TSC, now that it is going to be complete. If a school is going to have mean scores of below 250 and is not able to take any students to national schools or any ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. It is a pity I only have three minutes. Let me say in those three minutes that we are managing an economy of inequalities. It is the education sector where the serious contradictions in the management of our public affairs are beginning to show. As of now, I sympathise with Prof. Kaimenyi. What is it that we need to equalise in the education sector? It is teaching, laboratories and books. Instead, the inequalities and priorities are given to food, compounds, environment and you will not attain the equality that ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Sorry, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was speaking to you and not the Professor. You must equalise performance in tuition. If all the teachers are paid the same way, the standards of performance in examination must go up right across the country without allowing discrimination to be perpetuated when we have a new Constitution that illegalises continuing discrimination. It illegalises promoting inequalities and non-inclusivity. view
• 20 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Following your comments, honestly, this is a Bill that requires a lot of public participation. When we have no threshold to the level where amendments, if they exceed, we require republication of a particular legislation including the amendments, we have not had that. Honestly, amendments are messy. The only reason we missed the minimum qualifications is because of so many amendments and the final amendment cancelled all other amendments. We ended up with a recommendation that even a Standard Four leaver could be a Member of Parliament. With modern drafting and computers, the Leader of Majority ... view
• 19 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to convey my condolences and those of my family to the family, friends, relatives and colleagues of hon., Otieno Kajwang’. I want to say that my family was very close to the late Kajwang’. We got a telephone call at 1.43 a.m. yesterday. I had a serious situation in my house. My wife cried uncontrollably for over 30 minutes recounting her sympathies with Mrs. Kajwang’ and reciting how helpful, supportive, effective, trustworthy and committed the late Otieno Kajwang’ has always been. We were together in the same cabinet with hon. the ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the --- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My contribution will be very brief. First of all, as a country, we intend to be a transport hub for the entire continent. If you look at the amount of traffic that gets into Dubai, there is no reason why we do not get that traffic coming into Kenya. It means on an issue like Ebola, we have to be prepared all the time and health facilities at the port have to be funded properly. It is time we sponsored a global resolution through World Health Organization (WHO) so that anybody travelling is tested ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I will, therefore, just summarize. Kenya is likely to be a global hub of transport and particularly in our continent. Ebola seems to have a frequent source in our continent. Every morning, we expect people coming from every other African country passing through Nairobi going East, West or South. Therefore, we should teach view