Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 981 to 990 of 1643.

• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: My county is currently implementing a free lunch programme for nursery schools. As a result, the intake of children has tripled in our devolved schools. So what is the impact of that? If that was to be done in primary and high schools, I would imagine the same positive outcome would be yielded. Therefore, my point is that the best way to counter child labour is to provide free lunch programmes in our primary and day schools. That way, we will see schools luring children from child labour. Otherwise, even if we come up with very good policies and laws ... view
• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: You all know the impact of free primary education after it was introduced in 2003. There was a huge increase in enrolment. However, since 2010, the positive aspect of free primary education appears to be chipping away progressively. For one, I have seen the reintroduction of school fees in our primary schools. I have also seen, particularly from last year, an increment in secondary school fees. In my constituency, parents were paying about Kshs12,000 in day schools last year, but this year, they are paying about Kshs25,000 in each school. Therefore, the impact of that is that you will have ... view
• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Education to find what the problem is. Why is it that the cost of education has now started going up just like it was during the Moi days? Why is it that instead of education becoming free, it is becoming more expensive? We now have a reason for children to engage in child labour. view
• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, from my own investigation, there was a circular that was issued by the former Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. Kaimenyi. That circular appears to have been interpreted to mean that there should be an increment in fees at the secondary school level. So, I would have urged this Committee that prepared this Report to have looked at that issue in a holistic manner to ensure that fees in primary and secondary schools is not being increased. If fees is increased, this policy will come to naught. There will be an increase in child labour if children do not ... view
• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Finally, we have vulnerable children, particularly those who roam about in towns. We call them in Kiswahili or street lingo, chokora . These two Reports ought to have paragraphs addressing the so-called problem of street children. There are various ways in which the Government can intervene to help the so-called chokora . One way is to provide free or open kitchens for such children where they would eat for free in our urban centres. They can also get education as they get food. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. There are several Bills which have been proposed for amendment under this law. In respect to the first law, the Industrial Training Act, Chapter 237 of the Laws of Kenya, this is a very good idea to the extent that the Bill seeks to amend that law to empower the Cabinet Secretary (CS) to nominate a member of the most representative federation of employers’ organisations. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I apologise. On the one in respect to the Copyright Act, 2001, I am not so certain as to whether the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons will be achieved by the proposal. I say that because when you look at the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, the objective of amending this law is to provide a structured compensation to performers and producers of the sound recordings. When you look at the actual proposal, it provides to insert the words “and the compensation shall be collected by the board and distributed to the respective copyright collecting society”. ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: artists who have a collecting society. Instead of giving that mandate to the Government - that is the board - we should empower the actual organisation comprised of the artists to do that collection. That will ensure, in my opinion, efficiency. People with vested interest in that money are going to do the work as opposed to entrusting that crucial role to the Government. Again, we all know the problems with the Government. There is corruption and mismanagement of our parastatals. We all know the copyright board is essentially a parastatal. I am cautious in supporting this idea. I foresee ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: I have a problem with those two clauses. Why? The operative words in those paragraphs is the “the status of senior counsel”. To me, this is discriminative to young advocates, young lawyers or even academicians who may not have that status of a senior counsel, but who can serve in the Kenya Law Reform Commission competently notwithstanding the lack of that status. The status of “senior counsel” is a legal term. We have a law which sets out how an advocate can be conferred that status. When you look at the procedure provided for under that law, you will see ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: To the best of my knowledge, that Commission conducts research. It is a research institution technically. It looks at various laws and updates them and comes up with research and, therefore, proceeds to advise Government on reforming various laws. Therefore, the idea of senior counsel ought not to be used as a criterion for appointment into this Commission. I wish they would have provided a criterion that is quite academic in nature, for instance, a person who has a Master’s degree in law. Such a criterion may make some sense, but this one where you provide that you must be ... view