David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I represent a constituency where parents struggle to take their kids to college and when they get their certificates, they cannot use them in any place for employment. In fact, the requests that I have in my constituency office are just too much. I agree with what hon. Nyenze has just said that we cannot equate all places. There are some places where facilities and teachers are not equally distributed. I represent a constituency which is not very rich and we feel that we are not properly and adequately facilitated in terms of competing with the ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the past it was suggested that the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) should be abolished. I want to say that these exams sometimes play a big part in demoralising students that we are supposed to be encouraging. I say this because within my constituency you will find public schools which have more facilities competing with schools that do not have enough teachers. In fact, the upper class students are the ones who teach the lower class students. I want to agree that this Bill is not properly before the House as Kaluma had indicated. ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when the Deputy President was the Minister for Higher Education he did a lot of work. Ruto tried to clean up the colleges. He tried to bring some sanity in these institutions. It is only that he was unable to continue because he was of course kicked out. However, I want to say that it is very sad that this Bill which is on the Floor has been brought by the Cabinet Secretary for Education. I want to say that it is not fair for us to continue bringing on board so many authorities. Just the ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is very sad that we have to keep on talking about how we should improve the economy of this country and we continue bringing authorities. To me, this authority will just play another role of--- If you look at the composition where they were saying that we need somebody from the university, another from a technical authority, some standard and professionals, I do not think that will augur well for this country in terms of bringing down the huge wage bill that we are continuing to talk about. What we would want to advise the ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I stand to oppose without any amendments. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wanted to raise an issue on what we were dealing with before this Order. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this amendment by hon. Keynan. Hon. Kaluma just suggested that we should not be mentioning some governors because we are seen as if we are politicizing the amendment, but I think the amendment has arisen out of what the governors are doing with regard to flying flags and the use of names; it is not us, as Members of Parliament. It is not also the Senators or any other person. It is actually the governors who have misused this privilege of flying flags all the over place. We visited some functions over ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: As hon. Abongotum has said, when hon. Keynan visited our committee, the question was, assuming you fine the driver and the governor in the vehicle who is supposed to be charged? It is an issue that we need to look at and understand; when a flag is flying, is it the governor who should be charged or is it the driver or the security personnel? Of course, he said that if the governor is not in the vehicle, then we should charge the driver. But if both are there, then who takes the responsibility of answering in court with regard ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: It has also been suggested on how we address the Senators. It was mentioned that we should leave the names of the Senators and hon. Members as they are. I cannot remember whether it is this Act or another one that talks about the MCAs who call themselves “hon. Members” at every corner. So, again, we need to have the amendment and support it, so that we can have the right people flying the national flag, which is a sign of national unity. As indicated by hon. Keynan, those specific individuals who have been mentioned in the Bill should be ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Recently, you heard of a governor who has appointed an envoy to one of the foreign countries. Now we are saying our Kenyan ambassadors in foreign countries can fly the flags when they are there. The question will be: Will the envoy who has been appointed by the governor be flying the county flag in that country? These are things that we need to stop the governors from doing; they are misusing their powers and privileges that devolution has bestowed on them. view