Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: We have 70 boreholes now, and they supply and provide water to our primary and secondary schools in the two sub-counties. On the measures the Ministry is taking to ensure that our students remain in school considering the nomadic lifestyle in this particular area, I want to state as follows. First, we have provided food and the purpose is to ensure that we retain our children in schools and that has worked out very well. Secondly, in this sub-county, the neighbouring sub-counties and other areas in ASAL areas, we have a number of low-cost boarding schools. There is a total ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: The county government, particularly Mandera, is also supporting the education sector. For instance, in this financial year, the County Government of Mandera has pumped in Ksh350 million to address this problem. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Kenyan Government entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Cuba in 2004. The agreement entered upon was that Cuba will give partial scholarships by providing for tuition and accommodation. They would take two students per given year. That has been happening since then. The Government of Kenya initially used to give bursary to every student who qualified until 2011. Since 2011, as a country, we have not been able to give the stipend that we used to give, not only to our students who access this scholarship programme, but even those ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The first question is about understaffing of teachers in junior secondary. I want to re- assure Members that as a Ministry, we are aware of that fact. However, we have not reached a state where we can say we are 100 per cent perfect as far as staffing is concerned. This is an issue that we hold meetings every time about. Normally, I hold virtual meetings with sub- county directors of Education and county directors of education. We get reports of shortage of teachers in specific schools and address that particular problem as we progress. When ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Mombasa last week. I made it clear that they have to obey the government’s directive, particularly this one. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: With regard to infrastructure funds, Members, you are aware that the amount you have given us for the primary section this financial year is Ksh140 million for all our primary schools. You can imagine the number of primary schools we have in the country. They are about 24,000. We said, as much as possible, the criteria we follow is that we must consider equity and a little bit of affirmative action. This is because there are areas in this country that you go to and wonder what happened. When others have done very well with the National Government Constituencies Development ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: The Hon. Member from Baringo South Constituency, I am aware of that problem. It was a problem affecting Baringo and Turkana counties. I had an opportunity of going to Turkana County and had a public rally with a few Members of Parliament from Turkana County. The amount you allocated us was Ksh100,000,000. We have already given it to Turkana County. We are yet to give Baringo County. That is on my desk. Be rest assured that we will rebuild those schools that were destroyed by bandits in Baringo County. We have also engaged the military, which is assisting the Ministry ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Member from Marsabit County. I attended an education day in Marsabit County. I am aware of the unique problems in that county and the neighbouring counties. There are cases that we will consider on their merits, Marsabit and the neighbouring counties being some of them. There are others that require me to partner with the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy and other government agencies for an affirmative action in order to assist those areas. view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, you know the criteria of giving textbooks to schools. This is another area where we said that we must register all our schools, be it primary or secondary. Once the NEMIS captures them, they qualify to get textbooks. The number of textbooks we have issued to our junior secondary schools in the 12 learning areas is 18,000,000, taking an amount of Ksh3.3 billion. That is money allocated by this House. I think His Excellency the President will issue a statement today in conformity with the recommendations of the Presidential Working Party. It is to reduce the number of ... view
• 3 May 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, concerning the SRC and the TSC with regard to the disabled, I request the Hon. Member to come to the office so that I can call the TSC and we will deal with the specific problem he raised. view