Francis Baya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 151 to 160 of 186.

• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Bw. Naibu Spika, vile alivyosema mhe. Mbunge, hiyo ndio njia tunafuata ya mobile . Kwa hivyo, tunangojea tu. Nyinyi mna wajibu kama Wabunge kutusaidia tupate rasilimali zaidi ili tununue magari na mafuta. Nakubaliana na mhe. Mbunge na tutaenda mobile. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry had not posted a Registrar of Persons and a Registrar of Births and Deaths due to an acute shortage of staff. Marsabit North District was created in 2007 from the former larger Marsabit District. We are currently serving this new district from the former district headquarters. (b) I used the past tense “had” in part “a” above because we have identified an officer who will be posted to North Horr District so as to operationalize a new district registration unit. Thank you. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to assure the hon. Member that the officer will be there before Friday next week. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member because I am also a victim although I am in that office. The reason for this is shortage of staff. We have written to the Treasury and the Minister of State for Public Service to allow us to recruit junior officers, clerks and so on. We have also asked them to recruit for us senior officers. After that is done, they will be posted to each and every district. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not have the details of how we are going to handle each and every district because those details were not required in this particular Question. However, like I said, we have written to the relevant Ministries to be authorized to recruit. The hon. Member is right to say that we lack facilities like transport and other equipment. We are doing all that we can so that we make sure the offices are run as they should. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not recruiting them as agents. We have chiefs who are doing that. However, recently we enlisted them as people who should assist headteachers of secondary and primary schools because we would like everybody to get Identity Cards and Birth Certificates. We have included them in the programmes but we have not given them the title of “agents.” view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my previous career, I served in that place. That is a service that must reach all Kenyans. I want to promise the hon. Member that I will get him an officer and a vehicle. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there are no civil registration officials at Nandi North District. The district is currently served from Nandi Central, that is at Kapsabet. (b) Births and deaths registration are still manual, and records cannot be transferred from the office to the field. This makes mobile registration and issuance of certificates from the field not an option at the moment. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do agree with the hon. Member. In fact, the situation is the same in almost all districts. We have a serious shortage of staff. Out of the 265 districts that we have currently, only 104 are staffed with civil registration officials. We have written to the Treasury and to the Ministry of State for Public Service, asking them to allow us to recruit officers. We are still waiting for their reply. Since February this year, the department has issued 900,000 certificates. Out of these 900,000 certificates only 600,000 have been collected. Three hundred thousand ... view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we realized that although registration was mandatory, the Government decided that this year’s candidates had to be registered, but it was not possible. Therefore, there was an allowance that candidates could be registered awaiting the issuance of certificates by the end of today. As far as we know, students could have been registered. All that is left is for the department to finalize the issuance of the remaining certificates in places where they have not been given out. view