Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: The Member for Ganze has asked a question about the school feeding programme. Hon. Members, as you know, this has been going on for years, I think since 1979. The World Food Programme was supporting us in this, but in 2017, they stopped. The Kenya Government has continued with this programme in 26 Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) counties. This financial year, Parliament allocated Ksh2 billion which we have used to give food, both in kind and as cash transfer, to the 26 counties. According to the figures, I can see that Ganze benefitted from the cash transfer. So, when ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: I want to thank Members because in the Supplementary Budget, you gave us an additional Ksh1 billion for purposes of the school feeding programme. Of course, we know other counties, apart from the 26, are in need too, but we are constrained financially. Concerning water in schools, we thank the Members of Parliament because in a number of constituencies, they have supplied water tanks to a number of schools using the 2.5 per cent money they normally get. My Member of Parliament from Kisii County, we do not encourage school children to be sent away to bring water to school. ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: A Member asked about sanitary towels. We discussed this matter and the Ministry of Education, this financial year, was allocated Ksh470 million to procure sanitary pads to be supplied all over the country. There are discussions being held that the money was supposed to be transferred to the Ministry of Public Service and others were of the view that it should be transferred to the County Woman Representatives. I think there is a meeting scheduled to deliberate on that aspect. The financial year is coming to an end; so we have procured. Once we get together with the County Members ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Concerning the first Question by Hon. Kaunya, the decision to domicile junior secondary schools in primary schools is not a temporary arrangement. The matter has been considered extensively and the decision was made after considering a range of key factors. As all the Members here are aware, a Presidential Working Party was established in order to take views from Kenyans. It went to all the 47 counties and engaged with the unions and experts. I am also aware that there was an opportunity for Members of Parliament to give their views to the Presidential Working Party. ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the decision about JSSs is now six years old, namely, since 2017 when we started Grade One. There is no engaging reverse gear. We cannot go back to reconsider the decision. We are moving forward with JSS. The second set of question is that a total of Ksh7.662 billion was utilised to build 9,721 classrooms in our secondary schools. These classrooms are currently being used and have reduced the ever-growing congestion in our secondary schools. This was informed by a taskforce that was formed around 2020 which was given the responsibility and mandate to look at enhancing access, ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Mandera South Constituency has 73 public primary schools with current enrolment of 30,668 learners. Fifty-six (56) of these schools are in Mandera Central, Elwak Sub-County while 17 are in Kutulo Sub-County. In the just concluded term, NACONEK gave food in kind distribution to all our public primary schools in Mandera South Constituency. The learners are provided with two meals per day; one being porridge during break time and rice and beans during lunch time. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: In Kutulo sub-county, the 17 schools that were covered under this programme were provided with 1,435 bags of rice, 200 bags of beans, 92 20-litre jerry cans of oil and 38 bags of salt. In Mandera Central, Elwak Sub-County, where we have 55 schools, a total of 5,741 bags of rice were supplied. We also gave 794 bags of beans, 150 bags of salt, cooking oil and 1,120 cartons of ready to drink porridge to this sub-county. The total amount used for Mandera The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: County was Ksh203,893,240. For the two sub counties in this particular constituency, the total amount spent in the school feeding programme in the first term was Ksh59,956,400. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: On provision of water, as you are aware, the responsibility and function of water falls under the Ministry of Water and the county government. You know that Parliament has given an allocation to the Ministry of Water. In this quarter, over Ksh200 million was allocated for drilling of boreholes in schools. That money is managed by the Ministry of Water. As the Ministry of Education, we can only make a recommendation to the Ministry of Water to consider drilling a borehole in any given school. However, in Mandera South, public schools are located in town centres that share boreholes with ... view