Farah Maalim

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: I am not on a point of order, I am contributing. I know what he is talking about but, please, just allow me to continue. view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: You cannot defeat the very principal philosophy of our Constitution to devolve power, authority and management. You already have a National Land Commission which has the authority to appoint the county land board, and then you provide again that they be given the right, the power and authority to appoint from outside the county? What is the purpose of devolution in this case? view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, to begin with, the very stringent qualifications that have become conditional for the appointment of these people will definitely make most land boards national. This is particularly in areas which are essentially marginal and in areas like Coast Province. So, the national texture will always be there and for the benefit of hon. Orengo, as much as I want to appreciate what he is saying, and this is what we have all along prayed for in this country, this will never function that well. We have seen managers of major parastatals who are working in areas ... view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support the petition. A few of us remember in the Seventh Parliament when there was a situation in which all the students in Bishop Musa Gitau School, which was somewhere in Kiambu, were supposed to have done very poorly. But when we went for remarking again, it was found that those students were actually some of the best in the country. At that time, a pattern was developing in the country in which the politically correct areas, where the powers were domiciled, were the areas which always produced the best students and the ... view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, this is a problem that affects by and large more than any other constituency, my constituency and hon. Affey did a very good thing knowing the fact that I end up where you are quite often when these questions arise. I appreciate what the Minister has said, and that has been the content of communication from the Minister, Permanent Secretary, Director of Registration and a number of senior officers in the department. In one case which hon. Affey is talking about is a letter addressed to me here of a young man who completed his ... view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Minister, I am happy that you have given these. I just want you to confirm one more time. These are Kenyans who are likely to be displaced. We talk about Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) everyday in this country. We talk of the victims of the post-election violence of 2007 and 2008; we are using massive amounts of public money to resettle them. Every time we have a drought, not less than 200,000 people from North Eastern Province get displaced and nobody gives them anything because their livelihood is displaced. You do not expect them to starve when there is ... view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, those of you who are of my age, your age and the professor’s age remember the 1950s, when we used to do the examination by East African Examinations Council; we never had these problems because the exams from Kenya used to be marked by Ugandans, those of Ugandans used to be marked by Tanzanians and those of Tanzanians used be marked by Kenyans. That is how it used to be. Those exams used to be marked by people who had absolutely no interest in the examinations. view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Examination now is a cartel; it is corruption. It is nepotism. It is regionalism because it is all conducted by teachers whose integrity and dignity are questionable in many cases. Could the Minister confirm that there will be an independent audit done by independent examiners from outside this country, including from Uganda, and in a manner that we can essentially say is independent? They should go through these materials and establish the exact facts. This is because sometimes when students from the North Eastern Province do so well, somebody assumes that they have cheated because they have done well. They ... view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir! view
• 8 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have no wish to interrupt my good friend, Prof. Sam Ongeri. I only want to tell him that I heard him on a number of occasions say, “The law is clear”. As far as the Examination Act itself is concerned, the law is very clear. The law is here and it says:- “Cancelled results, scripts, projects and other examination material for the purposes of assessment and in respect of which irregularities are established by the Council and the results cancelled shall not be available for re-assessments” Basically, what this law says is that whatever the Examination ... view