David Musila

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion. In doing so, I would like, first, to commend my good friend the Minister for Education and his team for the good work they are doing. This House has raised its concern on a very important matter of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificates that are held illegally by board of governors of schools for many years. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I moved a Motion in this House, which was passed unanimously in 2002, calling on the Government to have the certificates released. Three weeks ago, 145 hon. Members; two-thirds of hon. Members in this House, signed a petition to His Excellency the President, again making an attempt to have the certificates released. On Monday, the President gave some indication that this was possible, although he did not give an order to have the certificates, some of which have been held for over 15 years, be released. I appeal to the Minister, this time round, as ... view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of FPE Programme has been talked about. We all thank the Government for it. We welcome the waiver of secondary school tuition fees from 2008. I want to remind the Minister, through you, that in a Sessional Paper that he brought to this House and which was passed, it was stated and agreed that pre-primary education would be supported by the Government as well. Somehow, this matter seems to have been left in abeyance. The Pre-Primary Education Programme, as the experts know, and most of them are here, is the foundation of education. ... view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: July 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2625 I just wonder why the Ministry of Education flouts the law and gets away with it? I want the Ministry to follow the law. I want it to retain teachers who are due for retirement, if it has not been able to prepare their pensions. That way, teachers will not waste time after retirement coming to the TSC to look for their pensions. That is desirable and the Minister must, along with the other things that he is doing well, do that one so that everything--- view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: I do not know why hon. Members want to chase me, but with those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 9 May 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I would like to congratulate Mr. Oloo-Aringo for bringing this timely Motion. I would also like to add my voice to the voices of many hon. Members who have supported this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of education has become so important in this nation. During the last few weeks, we have been debating Motions by hon. Members seeking this and that in order to improve education in this country. Hon. Kipchumba has also alluded to the fact that the Presidential aspirants ... view
• 9 May 2007 in National Assembly: I am pleading with Mr. Muturi and Mr. Angwenyi to let the Attorney-General, please, listen to me! The Attorney-General who is the chief advisor of the Government is allowing the Kenyan Government to continue to commit an illegal act by withholding certificates of students because they have not paid school fees. They are taking the certificates as lien for the debts that they owe. These debts are running up to ten years back. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am appealing to the Attorney-General to advise the Government that it is committing an illegal act and that they must order ... view
• 19 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Order, Mr. Boit! That is Mr. Ojode's document. Give it back to him, so that he can table it himself since it is his responsibility! view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to support very strongly this Motion and thank hon. Ojode for bringing it, particularly at this time when we are preparing the Budget. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have in the past congratulated the Government for the introduction of free primary education. However, I have on the Floor of this House lamented that this free primary education, particularly in some areas, is meaningless. This is because the quality is so low that one would wonder whether it is worth anything. While contributing to the Presidential Address, I said that in ... view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, but I was just appalled that they are even marginalising an Assistant Minister's own district. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am emphasising that when the Ministry allocates teacher training vacancies, let us see these districts with more teachers getting the lions share of allocations in teacher training. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, then there is the issue of examinations. Whenever examinations are done, the Government publishes the best schools and best performing students. It is no wonder that we never see any schools in Mwingi District featuring anywhere in those lists because ... view