Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to join my colleagues in supporting the recommendations of the departmental Committee on Education under the very able leadership of Mr. Koech. The fact that we have so many Members of this House who were students at Kenyatta University tells you how important this institution is and its contribution to this nation. Amb. Affey talked very nostalgically about this institution, and he did not want anything bad to be said about it. But I do not think that is the issue. Kenyatta University is not on trial here. What reached this House ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to encourage students. We, as leaders in this House, have interfered with our institutions. We have polluted them. We, as leaders, must stop this practice. We must encourage our students and tell them that when you are at the university, that is your finest hour, be the best you can be. If you wish to be a student leader, that is where you should be like Socrates, the Philosopher who stands at street corners to philosophise and talk to your colleagues; sell your ideas, but do not go to your tribesmen to support ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of tribalism, the truth is that it is there. We must look for a way of dealing with this monster head-on. We must do an audit. I would ask the Minister to consider doing an audit of all public universities to find out who are leading these universities. We have put in place laws to try and deal with the issue of tribalism. We have the National Cohesion Act that we have put in place to try and fight the issue of negative ethnicity. We have the Public Officer’s Ethics Act. We ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I was very saddened to hear of a story of one principal who was sent to a school in Central Province and the principal came from Nyanza and they could not give him landing in Central Province at one of the top schools. Yet, when this principal went back to Nyanza and took one of the schools there, it is one of the top schools. That school has done better than the school he went to in Central Province and was turned away. He beat that school and it became like the proverbial stone that was rejected by the builders ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: What triggered this problem was the deadline of registration. As I speak, we do have a deadline that the Ministry of Education put that students must get birth certificates if they have not by 30th of June. The deadline runs out tomorrow. Many students have not gotten their birth certificates. I had raised this issue with the Ministry. We are hoping that they would give us an answer tomorrow that the deadline will be extended. But the deadline that was put in Kenyatta University is what triggered off these riots, as we have seen from the report. But it did ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: It was only last week that hon. Dr. Mwiria was answering a Question in this House over the sad story of diploma students who were trying to obtain degrees at the same university. Out of 400, hon. Dr. Mwiria told us about 200 students could not qualify. There were problems with the students; most of them financial. I know that some of these students are teachers. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Chanzu. In fact, the hon. Member is the one who had raised the issue that the Assistant Minister was answering. We, as Members of Parliament, were very saddened that this is happening in our society where there is thirst for knowledge. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: We have Kenyans who have limited payslips. Some of them are primary school teachers who are trying to educate their children and at the same time get higher education through the institutions. Because of whatever problems they have had, some were not meeting this deadline. The fact that they were going to be locked out, must have contributed greatly to the riots that occurred. We, as a society, must start looking into these issues to see how we can assist Kenyans who have thirst for knowledge to have access to this knowledge. We must make sure that their dreams are ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: We, as a nation, are suffering from the problem of commercialisation of education where we have campuses mushrooming all over and running out of control. Indeed, we are hoping that this Bill as it comes will address some of these issues. We do know that even as we speak, this very institution suffers from congestion. It has a population of over 22,000 students. As a result of this, they have tried to force and even shorten semesters. They have tried to cut down the syllabus as we have heard from the Committee. In this case, it is very serious that ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: With this few remarks, I wish to support. view