George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Did you hear what the hon. Member for Mbita said? She has said that the President and his Deputy are not sitting properly. How are they sitting? view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I rise to oppose it with greatest respect to the Chair of the Committee in which I serve and, indeed, the Leader of Majority Party. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I have looked through this Bill and I do not see what it seeks to do. The only thing that you see in this Bill is the creation of this Authority and jobs for several people to serve in the Authority that is proposed to be created with, of course, the consequences which the State is dealing with already. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we are in a crisis as a nation and I think we should agree as the Legislature to help the Executive to have a lean Government that can effectively deal with issues of governance and administration of various professions and sections. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: There is even a proposal by the Head of State, and he is leading by example and we need to support him. The Head of State and the Deputy President have had their salaries reduced and so is the case with the Cabinet Secretaries. Why do we need to create an Authority whose true meaning to the nation in terms of any public good is not clearly defined? In fact, I have been struggling to read this Bill since I laid my hands on it. I do not know whether it even qualifies for the title; you know a Bill ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the other thing is that we have the Commission for Higher Education. I do not know whether the persons who drafted this Bill considered the existence of that body. It deals with issues of qualification and standards for all tertiary, graduate and post-graduate institutions in the country. The Bill is not telling us whether those other institutions will die or what the Qualifications Authority will do which that commission does not do. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: If we go to the legal profession, for instance, we will find that we have the Council for Legal Education dealing with standards in the legal profession. We also have an Act of Parliament that establishes that Council. The Act sets its functions and mandates. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: This is a Bill that says that it is dealing with qualifications across all professional sectors now, without reconciling the issues of those qualifications with the various professional standard setting bodies that are also properly legislated and established under Acts of Parliament. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we have universities in this country. All these universities are established under Acts of Parliament. There is the Kenyatta University Act. We also have the University of Nairobi piece of legislation. Even private universities were established under Acts of Parliament. An example is Baraton University. All universities in the country were established under what is generally referred to as general university statute or the statutes specific to those universities. When you come with a document or a proposal such as this, how will you enter the realm of those universities or training institutions to begin contemplating standards? The ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: This is a Bill that I think is not yet concretized in terms of philosophy and thought. This is a Bill that I think will overburden the national economy with a body that may be meaningless. We have a problem in this country. Even at the level of commissions, this Parliament has been crying. How can we bring the commissions together so that we have well-structured governance structures and systems or bodies that any individual, whether in Kenya or outside, can refer to for various issues? How does it benefit the Government of this country particularly if it is the ... view