Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki

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• 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: I am a Seventh Day Adventist. We worship on Saturday and insist that on those days in any given school, our children who worship on Saturdays are given that opportunity like any other denomination. Worship rooms and spaces should be allocated because this is key. There should be no forcing of learners to participate in religious rites and activities that are contrary to their beliefs. We have attached that circular from the Ministry. It is now for us to enforce. We have an Interreligious Committee in the Ministry to enforce the circular. We normally have regular meetings. After the meetings, ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if I can go to the history, the hon. Member knows that around 2021, there was a case that was taken to court. Specifically, it was involving the Kenya High School. The court pronounced itself on that particular matter that what the school was trying to do was not right. As I have said, two or three months ago, we had a meeting in my office with the interreligious committee and the board of management of Kenya High and their principal. One issue that I really made clear to the board was that we should not ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I have an open-door policy. Members know that when you have an issue, you are always welcome to my office. The hon. Senator is always welcome. I undertake that I will be able to uphold and make sure that the supreme law of the land is observed. Anybody who does not observe it, then we will catch up with him view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. It is clear that there is a policy on uniforms. You will find uniforms when you go to schools in any part of the country. The religious attires are worn in addition to school uniforms. It is nonetheless not very different from the school uniforms, it is an addition. Secondly, Kenya has a very progressive Constitution. The hon. Senator for Murang’a knows it. We are the only country in Africa or even the world where the Ministry has an autonomous constitutional commission; the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), as pronounced in the 2010 ... 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: contained in the Presidential Working Party on Quality Assurance, states that we have to avoid this duplication because at the end of the day, the Exchequer is one. The Ministry gets funds from the Exchequer to undertake functions and then the same Exchequer is giving funds to the TSC to do the same function. When two people are given the same function, it will either be done or someone will say the other one will do it, and then at the end of the day it will not be done. The kind of collaboration that we have cannot allow us ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Question No.37 is in regards to the Financial Year 2022/2023. The total allocation for free primary education programme was Kshs12.001 billion. A total amount of Kshs9,288,570,185 has been disbursed in the same period. In Term Two, we had a disbursement done on 4th July of Kshs2,714,037,012 for 8,869,402 learners. We have given for Term One 2023, from (a) to (d). The report given is self-explanatory. A further disbursement of Kshs99,879,981 was made on 21st June, 2023 to cater for 469,018 learners. The figures are given there. It includes Junior Secondary Schools, where there has ... 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: Therefore, we expected that what we are giving will be adequate to procure all the resources and materials required at each and every level of basic education. This is because free and compulsory learning at each and every stage is outlined in the Kenyan Constitution. That is why the Government is providing all this, so that we do not have anybody having an excuse not to send his or her child to school. In part (d) of the question, we do not have prequalified suppliers for textbooks for our public schools. The suppliers we have are procured through an open ... view