Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 901 to 910 of 1379.

• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the history of sugar the world over is tragic. In fact, sugar drove the slave trade industry in the medieval times. At the moment, sugar is driving the “slavery” of the sugar growing zones. You just have heard the Assistant Minister say that they are going to do an experiment to see whether payment on the basis of the sucrose content of sugarcane can be applied. In other words, they want to continue experimenting on the farmers and enslave them further. Could he assure this House that the sucrose content experiment will be done on the ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance to support this very important Motion. Prof. Ongeri, the Minister for Education, is somebody who means well for this country. He has had a lot of patience to even educate very many of us to the levels that we have reached. However, I feel that, probably, his hands are tied by some remote control in the sense that if you take into account what Mr. Musila has just mentioned on the recruitment of teachers, there is skewed distribution. There is something that is tying his hands. He is ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: As the Minister spoke, I did not hear him mention something very critical at the moment. In the next year, the first graduates of the 8-4-4 free primary education will be going to Form I. I do not think we have enough classrooms to cater for those youngsters as they graduate to Form I. I believe the Ministry needs to come up with a rescue plan to ensure that we will have adequate classrooms and teachers for those new graduates of the free primary education who will be going to Form I next year. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I still sympathize with Prof. Ongeri because his Ministry is working very hard to ensure that adequate national resources are channeled towards education. But he is handicapped in one sense: The audit system at the user-end - the schools – is virtually non-existent. This is to the extent that it is not possible to actually say that all the money that is being channeled to the schools, which are the end users, is actually doing what it is channeled to do at that end. The auditing of schools, both primary and secondary schools, is still ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to support this Motion. Without saying too many things, first I would like to commend the Minister and her staff for the good work that they are doing. Now that they have taken most of the CDF funded health centres and posted nurses, I think you will see the impact of this in due course. However, I would like to alert the Minister on something. If you intend to lease ambulances, that is a big mistake. An ambulance is a motor vehicle but it is not any other motor vehicle. ... view
• 12 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Assistant Minister in order to say that these candidates just kept on hanging around as if it was their fault when they have actually dislocated people all the way from Turkana to Nairobi? Did you expect them to go back to Turkana and come back? Is he in order to suggest such a thing? view
• 12 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to seek guidance from the Chair. The issue raised by the Member for Embakasi appears to be a family issue. I do not know whether it will be in order for it to be brought to House. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I heard the Minister say that the women in Mumias are scared of borrowing. I would like her to table the statistics and tell us how she did the study that made her to arrive at that conclusion. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while the Minister might be quite in order to say that the university can use its land the way it wants, but those are, indeed, very strange goings-on because Dr. Otichilo has implied that those houses have been built on a straight line demarcating the perceived boundary between the two administrative areas. Could I be in order to suggest to the Minister to liaise with the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security so that he can come up with something to show us in this House whether it is right to create any solid ... view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Given the role of ambassadors representing this country, I do not think it would be in order for any ambassador to be named here without a substantive Motion. view