David Kibet Koech

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministerial Statements also confuse the principals and management of our schools. That is because circulars and statements are issued without clear understanding. It is the view of this Committee that the Ministry should clearly spell out all the policy statements in manuals or circulars to ease the implementation and avoid ambiguities. This year, as a country, we introduced free secondary education. The delay in the disbursement of the same funds also played a key role in the unrest in the second term. We understand that, that was the beginning of a wonderful move by ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the prefect system as I mentioned earlier, has its problems. To some extent, our prefects have been referred to by the students as "the eyes and the ears" of the principals and the management. It is necessary, through the reforms that are going on, that students are involved in the selection of prefects, so that they could feel that prefects are their representatives. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The school workers are also a very important entity. We discovered in our rounds that our school workers have been forgotten by the management of our schools. The delayed disbursement of funds part of which was to pay some of the workers, delayed the payment of salaries to workers. By the time we were going out there, some workers in some schools had not received salaries for up to six months. That was enough evidence to tell us that they were the most demotivated teams in our schools. To some degree, they played a role in the strikes in our ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Of course, the communication channel in our schools is wanting. We noted that some of the students who talk during public barazas end up being the victims of circumstances in cases of unrest view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: 4092 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 11, 2008 and strikes in our schools. So, we suggest the establishment of "school parliaments" in all our schools or the so-called barazas where students and the administration can be able to interact freely, and that suggestion boxes be effectively used. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on boarding schools, the boarding schools that we have today, compared to our time in school--- During our time, school life was better than home life. Reason being that we did not have permanent buildings at home. Maybe, we did not have very good toilets. We did not have electricity. So, when we went to school, it was a wonderful life. To the majority of the students today in Kenya, their home life seems to be better than the school life. It is important, therefore--- Some of the students have their own bedrooms. Some of ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I mentioned, the Children Act also plays some role. That is because we have advocates who propagate children rights and, as a result, our schools get confused. Because of the interpretation of the same, some parents have played some role of inciting the students against the administration. The number of indisciplined students is growing. Looking at what happened out there, it is high time that we admit and accept that, at the moment, we have criminals in our schools. Criminals cannot be kept in schools. They should be kept out of schools. It is ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: With regard to school inspections, we found out that quality assurance and standards officers are very few in this country. The Ministry should ensure that we have enough inspectors to ensure that work is actually going on in our schools. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a very serious sense of hopelessness among the students in our schools today. Reason being that we have focused so much on university entry. With the 8-4-4, we are talking of over 80,000 students qualifying to go to the universities, and then we only admit 10,000 students. The remaining 70,000 feel frustrated and, by extension, those who are even in school also feel frustrated because they cannot see how to make ends meet. So, we recommend also that the taking over of middle level colleges by universities be stopped, so that the universities ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: We also recommend that the media should play its role very responsibly. Some of the incidences occurred as a result of students watching reports of other strikes on the television daily. I think it was not necessary to keep on showing the students what had happened. I think caution should be exercised. We also have problems with some of the TV programmes. It was quoted very well that Tahidi High, which is a programme on TV, portrays a school scenario where there is a lot of indiscipline and students rebelling against the administration. Therefore, we do recommend that this programme ... view