Daniel Dickson Karaba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1461 to 1470 of 1622.

• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion. THAT, aware of the high drop-out rate in our public secondary schools arising out of the inability of parents to pay school fees, further aware that the Government has instituted various measures and reforms to address the challenges related to access, quality and equity of education; this House urges the Government to establish a fund to be known as the Education Levy Fund to provide for school fees for students from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Motion is coming at a time when ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Health:- (a) whether she is aware that Kerugoya District Hospital mortuary is inadequate for the ever-increasing population; and, (b) whether she could expand the existing mortuary or construct a new one. view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Assistant Minister for that answer. However, it is disappointing that he is not even aware that the mortuary is not accommodating 16 bodies but 40. If that mortuary was expanded to accommodate 16 yet it is now accommodating 40 bodies, do they have plans to expand it, so that it can even accommodate more bodies? view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the other reasons why we have such bodies in the mortuaries is the high fees incurred during the process of postmortem. The postmortem fees are also very high. If there is an obvious cause of death, is it necessary for family members, who are already bereaved, to continue being charged the high postmortem fees? This will enable them to take the bodies for burial. Could they waive the postmortem fees? view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Such tremors, earthquakes and related quakes also happen in the rest of the world. It is unfortunate that we do not have experts July 25, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 21 who can detect a tremor much before it happens. How prepared are we? What is the Ministry doing to make sure that seismologists can detect seismic tremors in the earth's crust? This is something which requires specialised training and specialised skills. Do we have such experts? Which department of the University of Nairobi is catering for this? Are they prepared for it? Do ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute in support of this very timely Motion by our friend, Mr. Angwenyi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Motion should have come in the 1960s and 1970s, so that we could take care of our growing population. Our population is even outgrowing the economic development. My friend, across there, talked about tripartite. This is something Kenya Government should have thought about, not only in the 1960s, when it was started, but also in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s to cope with the growing demands of unemployed ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude in support, we need also to think about the market of the products that we produce here. Do we have the market? Is the market bringing enough foreign exchange, so that we can think about economic development? With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 24 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to support the Vote of the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. It is a very important Ministry and we need to give it the necessary support. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, sometimes, we wonder whether things are moving in the right direction when we see constructions that stalled over 20 years ago. Those projects were started, but they were never completed. We have bridges which were half-way done. The steel works have been destroyed and vandalised by thugs. The Government has not come to save the situation ... view
• 24 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not fair to see a lot of money going to certain regions. There should be equitable distribution of resources to all the areas. Money should not be allocated to certain areas at the expense of some areas which are highly productive and qualify to be supported through roads constructions. We should support areas which are endowed agriculturally. We even grow tea leaves in my area. During the rainy days, our tea leaves rots in buying centres because of a poor road network connecting tea factories. Since those factories were constructed in those areas, no ... view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Water and Irrigation:- (a) whether he is aware that there is no sewerage plant in Kerugoya Town; and, (b) what plans he has to construct the plant. view