James Mwangi Gakuya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope the Minister for Finance is listening. We have not known of any country that has taken off economically without addressing the early childhood development, yet today the early childhood development sector has been lumped together with other administrative programmes. I am afraid that unless the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Education work together, we may not be able to take off in early childhood development which is a very big shortcoming in our educational development. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: The other issue is that we have read that the retired teachers are still waiting to be paid Kshs3 billion. I hope the Minister for Education and the Minister for Finance have considered the matter after the court gave a ruling for the teachers to be paid. Some of them have already died. I hope that the Minister for Education has taken care of that. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Our schools have no adequate teachers. There is no quality education that will be provided in Kenya when teachers are inadequate. We know very well that this country is short of 80,000 teachers, yet we are talking about Vision 2030. How do you arrive at that when you have a mediocre education system, and the Government cannot employ enough teachers, both in primary and secondary schools? view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir agriculture is the backbone of this country. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture should consider themselves lucky that they are able to feed part of the population, depending on rain. We are not going to be able to feed our country if we do not support projects on irrigation. It is sad. This financial year the Ministry of Agriculture requested District Agricultural Officers to identify areas where water pans could be developed, but the Ministry for Finance has not provided funds. We went out to the constituencies, identifying areas where we could ... view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this issue is weighty. If you listened to the Assistant Minister when he was giving the information, he said that the agreement did not allow senior Kenyans to be employed. Why was this so? view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, he said that it only had two Kenyan scientists, that is, one Physicist and a junior officer working at Dr. Kimani’s office. He referred to a Dr. Kimani. However, since this document was signed by the British Government, we are not a colony. What is the Government doing to nationalize this institution or close it? We are a Republic. Why would we have to get this station in our country serving the entire world and only get Kshs250 million that cannot even buy enough water pipes for our people? We need--- view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, you were requested to give us guidance here. Could you kindly request this Assistant Minister and the Government to ensure that no agreement is signed until we scrutinize it in this House? view
• 17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security:- (a) why he has not tabled the report on the killings of two brothers, John Kamuri and Peter Irungu of Yamugwe Village, Githagara Location, Kahuro District on 28th December, 2010 as promised in the House when answering Question No. 810 on 6th April, 2011; (b) whether he could table the report. view
• 17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is astonishing listening to an Assistant Minister of this Government; that a year down the line, they are not able to carry out investigations and give a report. We need your guidance because I raised this issue in April last year and the Minister, Prof. Saitoti, gave a timeline by which he should have tabled the report. It is a year now and he says that the police or whoever is investigating cannot get a report on this. For how long should we wait? Is he waiting for this Parliamentary term to end and then we ... view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to support and congratulate hon. Mureithi for bringing this petition to the House. If we look at the circular which was issued by the Minister concerned, it gave a leeway where people with disabilities would be discriminated against while others are given fair conditions. It is unfair and in breach of the Constitution. These people have been serving the country like anybody else. Therefore, they should be given an opportunity to serve to the age of 65 years; I would wish to support the petition and say that it has come at the right time. view