Irungu Kang'ata

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Irungu Kang'ata

Majority Whip of the Senate (12th May 2020 - 9th Feb 2021)

All parliamentary appearances

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  • 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: I support. view
  • 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
  • 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I apologise to the very eminent Senator for Nairobi City for interrupting him. However, I am just interested in ensuring that the rulings are equal. I rose and spoke about BBI, but the Chair reprimanded me. My colleague has mentioned BBI, but he did not reprimand him. Is there fair treatment? view
  • 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
  • 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I apologise to the very eminent Senator for Nairobi City for interrupting him. However, I am just interested in ensuring that the rulings are equal. I rose and spoke about BBI, but the Chair reprimanded me. My colleague has mentioned BBI, but he did not reprimand him. Is there fair treatment? view
  • 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for affording me this opportunity to support this Motion. I will start with highlighting the importance of ECDE amongst children and families. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to cite a book chapter called The Early view
  • 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: . It is a publication of the University of Chicago Press. The Editor is Robert A. Moffitt. The Title is Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs US, VolII . Several issues have been cited from this book, explaining the importance of early childhood education. The first one is the idea that there is a correlation between inadequate investments in childhood education and children social mobility thereafter. For states that under invest in childhood, children in those areas tend to have lower social mobility and good life outcomes. There is also another correlation between underinvestment in childhood education and social vices like ... view
  • 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: I sit, that is inadequate. We need teachers who are well paid and well-motivated, so that they can take care of our children at that level. In other developed societies, nursery school teachers tend to be the best paid. They could be paid even more than professors of universities because there is an appreciation of the importance of early childhood education. Once we pass this Motion, we will have a situation where counties will be compelled to provide free food for the poor children in our counties in nursery and pre- nursery level. Currently, there are so many children who ... view
  • 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: because I was a Member of the National Assembly and used to see the scores schools used to get in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination (KCPE). I would see on average several schools getting below 250, which is the half mark or the average mark in KCPE. You will find many students failing to get C+ at high school level. Several factors have led to this situation, but I have no doubt that one of the reason we have huge numbers of students under performing in our schools is because of the foundation ... view
  • 18 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I think to the best of my knowledge, there is a proposal to do away with the standardized examination at primary and secondary school levels. Therefore, it is true. I think I am factually correct. I am using this forum because we are discussing a Motion on education to urge the stakeholders who have that thinking to reconsider their view. We need to encourage our children on the importance of competition. In politics, we compete. There is a number one and a number two. The number one becomes a Member of Parliament, The electronic version of the ... view

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