Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I apologise. view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I appreciate all those presentations from my colleagues. I have taken into account their suggestions particularly the last clause relating to the penalties. I am going to do amendments to ensure that this Board does not lose money by that amendment. On the issue of the students, whether they have time to attend board meetings, they do attend senate meetings and that is not an issue. In any event, under the Constitution, you must ensure youth are represented in various entities. Through this amendment, youth are going to get representation in this Board so ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. May I move--- view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Higher Education Loans Board (Amendment) Bill be now read a Second Time. I am proposing that we amend the law to include two students’ representatives in the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). One will be from a public university and the other one will be from a private university. Secondly, I am proposing that the Members who have then been included from the students body to be elected by the student leaders on a rotational basis and from the respective public and private universities and they shall not serve for a ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: the better. We have to expressly provide for that in these amendments so that those young children do not miss out on those loans. The other amendment I am proposing to the HELB is that if you apply a loan and that loan is rejected, you need to be given a reason by the Board on why your loan has been rejected. Presently, they do not notify students. You only make inquiries and at times they are vague inquiries. So, when you have a statutory obligation as HELB to notify students when their loans have been rejected, that is very ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I was thinking along the idea that we introduce in the Third Reading an amendment to the effect that we increase the money that goes to HELB. I feel that we have been underfunding HELB. Particularly this year I foresee a problem. There are so many students who have passed and will be joining the universities. That increment of about 20 per cent needs to be addressed by us here in Parliament by apportioning more money to HELB to ensure that our students go through their university education. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: As opposed to those days when many honourable Members here went to university as regular students and they were guaranteed things like accommodation, these days universities do not guarantee accommodation. Many students living outside campuses are forced to pay rent at the prevailing market rates. Therefore, they have so many financial burdens, of course taking into account inflation. The way we used to buy things during our era is not the same way the present students are buying them; things have gone up. So, we need as Parliament, to sit down and think about the issue of giving more money ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: With those many remarks, I am grateful that you have agreed that we move these amendments. They are very important, particularly at this time when we are headed for a crisis at our public universities. We need to pass these amendments as soon as possible, because as a former professor, you know how we depend on our public universities to give us the best brains and to wheel the cog in our education. I rest my case there and ask Members to support these amendments. I take this opportunity to invite Mheshimiwa Ngeno, to second these proposals. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon.Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am a Member of the Public Investments Committee (PIC). I confirm that, indeed, our Committee did a very good job. We adhered to Article 50 of the Constitution. It gives us some duty to ensure that before we pass any judgment against any person, we hear that person first. We called several witnesses and we heard them. Therefore, this Report has been interrogated in a scientific and legal manner. We went through various documents which were presented to us and it was upon the materials that were presented before us that we were able ... view