David Kibet Koech

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: This report touches on education, which is key to the success of any country. We have many Kenyans serving internationally and locally and all of us are serving, courtesy of education. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, as a Committee, have just come from Israel. The development in Israel is fantastic. We, as a Kenyan nation, wish we would copy and adapt all that they have done. The secret behind their success is funding education, science and technology. The report which we shall be tabling before the House, understates that for us to prosper as a country, we must address issues affecting education. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for us to move forward and prosper as a country, we must ensure that we fully invest in education, research and technology. This report touches on the highest institution of learning in our country, namely, Kenyatta University, where the top cream of the Kenyan academicians is. It is important that as we address the issues in our universities, to also think of the source of the students. The students in our universities originate from our secondary schools and before then, they were in primary schools. For us to have a society that values human resource, ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the students were suspended after the first commotion on 18th, and within that period, the student leadership, who were hardly a week in office, were also suspended. When the rest of the students were coming back on 29th, it was felt, amongst the students, that their own leaders had actually been victimised for what they actually requested the administration, on behalf of the students, to do. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: The second cause was the suspension of the KUSO officials. The third, and very important cause, of the second strike was that when the students were sent home, each one of them was told to pay Kshs1,000. It was the feeling of the students – and the investigations revealed so – that the first strike was actually done by not more than 5 per cent of the students. So, those who did not participate felt that they were being told to pay for something they did not participate in. Secondly, they thought that the figure was exaggerated because, it was ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I said the security system is of great concern. There should be harmony for any university having more than one group providing security. As I said earlier on, the security officials should reflect the face of Kenya. The chief security officer of any given institution should be somebody responsible to that institution. We noted with concern that the Chief Security Officer at Kenyatta University was seconded there. Therefore, he was not being paid by the university. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I would like to conclude by saying that we have made several recommendations, some of them touching on specific individuals. We mentioned that we did not complete investigations but further investigations could be carried out on, first; the Vice- Chancellor, especially on how she handles the issue of deadlines with the students so that she could provide more information on the same. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor--- We also noted with great concern that there are so many Deans who are acting for one to three years. It is important for people to be given full responsibility so that they are responsible. ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: It is important to note in this House that one student died in Kenyatta University while the security from outside had not reported to the university. To date, the person who gunned down the student is still at large. I think it is important that this information is received. What Dr. Tom Namwamba teaches at Kenyatta University borders a lot on what we can call incitement. How do we draw the line between political science and critical thinking and the issue of incitement? These are some of the things that need to be addressed. We want to produce students who ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to state here that, as a Committee, we were given a warm welcome all over. I want to commend everybody for what they gave us. These recommendations plus others that I have not touched, should be able to guide our universities so that we are able to get students who are responsible, patriotic and who will lead this country in future in the right direction. I recommend that the rest of the universities could borrow a leaf from this report. I believe that my good friend, the Minister for Higher Education will make ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move and request my colleague, Dr. Otichilo, to second. view