Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki

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• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: The Ministry carries out monitoring and evaluation of the Manual to ensure the safety of learners in schools. The Manual requires each school to have a safety sub-committee to oversee the implementation of safety protocols. We have instructed the Quality Assurance and Standards Department to strictly ensure the implementation of the Manual and provide the necessary capacity to teachers and other staff in schools on its requirements. The National Education Quality Assurance and Standards Framework also provides five assessment dimensions based on which quality assurance and standards officers inspect school transport. Those parameters are as follows: Condition of the bus, ... view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: On recruitment of support staff, schools are required to employ duly qualified and registered persons. Drivers, for example, have to meet all the requirements and be licensed by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). As indicated above, our Quality Assurance and Standards officers inspect such personnel to ensure they are duly qualified. Of course, the Boards of Management (BOMs) which engage those personnel are also frequently inducted on human resource practises and are required to ensure the personnel undergo routine re-training. Our Quality Assurance and Standards officers also inspect to ensure compliance. view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Finally, where one is found culpable after investigations, they could be subjected to a disciplinary process in line with the provisions of the Employment Act, 2007, and the Teachers Service Commission Act, in the case of teachers. Where the culpability also constitutes a crime, they could also be prosecuted by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) upon the completion of investigations. view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: I submit, 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
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you… view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to answer all of them, but not in any given order. view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: I will start with the question by the Member of Parliament for Narok North. We know there are areas which were designated as hardship areas and when one works in a hardship area, he or she has some kind of enhanced salary – commonly known as hardship allowance. It has caused quite a lot of problems because there are neighbouring areas which are not designated. You will find teachers working in those areas will prefer working in the next area which is designated as hardship area and hence causing a problem in those other areas. We have noted several areas ... view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on banditry and insecurity in parts of our schools, you are aware of the incident we had the other day in Lake Baringo. Very unfortunate. You are aware of what we had in Turkana a few years ago and, of course, many other parts of this country where schools are not spared from incidents of insecurity. We work very closely with the Ministry of Interior and National Administration which has the mandate of ensuring that security is guaranteed for our learners in schools. You find probably the best we can do is to employ a watchman in a ... view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: bandits. We did the same in Turkana. Some of those schools are now up and running but still, we cannot say a 100 per cent we have sorted out that problem of insecurity. So far so good because of the efforts that are being made by my colleague, Hon. Kindiki, on the area of security. He is trying to mitigate on insecurity in those areas. We are making good progress, even though there are still incidents occurring in those areas. The other area is on medical cover. Hon. Members, you know it is only the other day that you passed ... view
• 28 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: We have 32,000 primary schools, over 11,000 secondary schools and over 500 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions countrywide. We also have over 70 universities. As the Cabinet Secretary for Education, there is a structure. If you decide that you want to cover every primary school in this country or you want to cover every secondary school, it is not humanly possible. What I have done in the Ministry of Education is to create an environment where the officers are able to work and deliver. I thank the Members of this House because you assisted me in that ... view