Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: per cent or thereabouts. Progressively, as we get proper replacements, we hope to get to that figure because we want stability in our schools. We have the figures of the shortfall and the numbers we should have in each county, such that when we transfer, there is some kind of harmony to avoid giving one county more and creating an acute shortage in other counties. We are careful at this, so that we do not destabilize the education sector as we work on this. I submit. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as the Senator and the Chairperson of the Committee on Education have noted, we are dealing with an independent commission and we will get it right. However, as I said earlier, this administration made it clear that we do not want to break families. That was a major consideration that made us reverse that particular policy which inconvenienced people and separated families. In the process, as rightly observed by the Senator, there are families that broke up. The man went and got married elsewhere, and the wife went into other things yet the stability of the ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. What the hon. Member from Murang’a has said is correct. We have parts of this country, for example, Nairobi City County where, for some reason, we do not have adequate public schools. This is a problem we have identified as a Government and we are looking for solutions. We have had a meeting with the local leadership, the Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Governor. They must get public land where we will build additional primary and secondary schools. We do not have enough secondary schools in Nairobi City County where children can get ... view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: We do not have a policy on giving capitation to private schools. Hon. Senators, you will remember the kind of debate on giving capitation to private universities and how Kenyans have pronounced themselves on that area. They agreed that we are giving public funds to private enterprises, who are doing their own businesses and we do not have the capacity or ability to audit the public funds that we are giving to those entities. So, we have no plan. This is why we have come up with a funding model for public universities. This funding is also meant to array ... 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: We have categorized them into four. The very vulnerable will get 100 per cent funding. The instrument we are using to measure this is equivalent to what we are using in the Higher Loans Education Board (HELB). About 45,000 Kenyans will benefit from this. There is also the extremely needy or less needy. Each Kenyan will access education. So, concerning private schools, we still do not have a policy to give them public funds. I submit. view
• 9 Aug 2023 in Senate: Temporary Speaker, Sir, I went through the Question. However, you have to understand your mandate, limit and powers. I looked through the question and concluded that the constitutional and the legal responsibility is with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), which is supposed to do this. I, therefore, sought the information from them. I wrote to the Attorney-General and to the EACC, to provide the information. The EACC wrote back to me. I am sorry I had not attached this letter, which I have from the Commission. Probably with your permission, it can be tabled. The letter is dated 31st ... 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: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. One, we have now paid all our examiners countrywide. There was a little bit of a delay, but we were able to get the Kshs2 billion and paid each and every examiner. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a question on which the examiner will take a little more time to mark. For example, Kiswahili has insha and other explanations where questions are not open ended. It will require the examiner to take more time. For Kiswahili, we pay Kshs73 per script and Kshs53 per script for Christian Religious Education (CRE). Why do 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