Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Also, we are engaging with our Members of Parliament through the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) so that they can also assist from the infrastructural part of the fund that they get in NG-CDF so that we can construct laboratories which we are calling integrated resource centres. I must say that there is proper learning going on within our CBC from every level from Grade One to Grade Seven where we are. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Progressively, we are also trying to mitigate the few challenges that we have particularly on infrastructural development as required by CBC. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: I submit. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Senator for Wajir County is aware that since my appointment to this position, I have been to Wajir County twice and other parts of Northern Kenya. First, the last time I had a meeting with the local leaders, MPs and the Governor, we discussed this particular issue. One thing we came up with was that there has to be home grown solutions, meaning that we have to train people from those particular areas to be teachers. We found out that even those we have trained prefer to go into other jobs. We do ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir and Sen. Chute. We have had two functions in Marsabit County. One in Moyale and another in Marsabit. We witnessed quite a number of challenges in Marsabit, which I think he will focus himself on. Only one student in Marsabit County got an A and he went to Maseno University. You know the recommendations which we had when we were in Moyale and Marsabit. This performance bond is, of course, a necessity in a project of this magnitude. I did not check the figures on this particular project. However, this is something I can ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As the Senator for Bomet has said, we have so far employed 38,000 teachers and are yet to employ another 20,000 this year, which will make 58,000 in total. The Kenya Kwanza administration committed that progressively we will go to more than 100,000. I am sure that in the next financial year, we will be able to do better in this area. One of the challenges we have countrywide is the shortage of teachers. The next question was on a home grown solution, but on this issue, in Kenya and in other areas, we ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: more in formative than the summative method; a more exam-centered system. Even children who would have done better were being denied the opportunity they would have gotten. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you come to matters equity, as much as we have disparities, we have instruments and tools we are making use of in assessing this in order to come up with the overall result, such that it is capturing the performance of each and every learner at the stage we are testing them on. Thank you. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr, Deputy Speaker, Sir, those who are a little bit old in this country, like myself, know the history of Tharaka a little bit. In 1997 or thereabout, there were ethnic clashes in the area due to land issues. A Commission of Inquiry was set up and certain recommendations were made. I have not had an opportunity of looking at its report to understand whether the underlying land issues were resolved because it is out of those land issues that the schools in the affected areas were burnt down. I believe that the Senator can get an opportunity to come ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The position of the Ministry is clear on this; that no learner shall be denied admission or kept away from school because of their religious attire. When this issue came up in March, 2022, the Ministry issued a directive to all county directors of education and the principals that the religious rights of learners should not be violated in any of our institutions of learning across the country. There should be no prohibition of wearing religious attires like hijab and turbans. Also, students should not be forced to take Islamic Religious Education, Christian Religious ... view