David Ouma Ochieng'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this requires your attention. Some of the issues raised by hon. Duale are administrative. I think you could sit and discuss them. I was looking at both of you invoking Article 107(2) of the Constitution and Standing Order No. 213. It is time we had a joint sitting between us and the Senate to talk about these issues and resolve them on the Floor of the House. Secondly, we could create a joint committee of this House and the Senate so that in case such issues arise, we can deal with them at that level. This is the ... view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would not want to disagree with her but is she in order to say that we are bribing Members of the Senate and our Women Representatives in this House? view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Chairlady. I wish to support this amendment but there are times we say something contrary to popular opinion, as we make laws and we may be seen to be opposing. We are saying that the Kenyan Sign language shall be equivalent to English, Kiswahili or any other language. Where I come from, there are deaf Luos who also use some kind of sign language. I do not know whether that language will also be equivalent to English or Kiswahili. The first part of the amendment which says that the official language for the deaf is the Kenyan ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I do not understand it but I still support in as long as it is going to make people who are deaf be able to communicate with the rest of the country. Thank you. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you so much. I did not intend to interrupt the hon. Member, but relevance is a very important virtue as part of debate in this House. How do you compare presidential elections to examinations ranking? Is it really relevant? view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank hon. Wakhungu for bringing this particular Motion. The way this Motion goes will determine how we deal with this particular issue of ranking of schools. I rise to oppose the Motion with a couple of reasons. I will start with the very basic mundane ones and proceed to the real ones. The mundane one is that we are doing something that is going to take our educations to the drain. We are politicising education. Even Members of Parliament want to run on the platform of schools that have emerged tops. ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: mundane. I am also happy that the so-called ‘ranking’ is not anchored in any law or policy. Therefore, the idea that there was no consultation in doing away with ranking of schools is legally unfounded. Which law provides for ranking of schools? Which public policy says that schools will be ranked based on examination results? There is no such law or policy and, therefore, nobody has done anything wrong. In my opinion, vilifying the Ministry or the Minister for abolishing ranking of schools is going too far. We need to look at the real issues, which I want to talk ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: We cannot rank schools based on exams. Ranking would be good but let us rank the schools based on all the parameters. How many in that particular school are doing athletics and football? How many are good in singing? This is so that the ranking is done in a holistic manner and not only in exams. What we should be talking about and what I heard the Mover of this Motion confuse with ranking is called grading. When someone gets a First Class Honours degree and another one gets a Second Class Honours degree, that is called grading and not ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: That is grading and not ranking. That is why you are going to get ten people getting the same grade. This is very important so that we know what we are talking about. There is unnecessary and unhealthy competition in our schools because of ranking. People have stopped teaching and doing what they are supposed to do. We are no longer using what we call pedagogy. We are not using good teaching methods because what we want, at the end of the day, is results and our faces to be seen on television. You have seen and heard how teachers ... view