James Mwangi Gakuya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support. First, I want to congratulate the Minister and his staff for well-done preparations. However, there are a few points, like my colleagues have said, we need to pay attention to. view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Let me start with the Development Expenditure. If we are going to give quality education, we should support the Minister to ask for adequate funds that would bring on board the Early Childhood Education Programme to primary schools as well. We need to address that. Internationally, that is a recognized factor and we do not need to belabour that. The Minister should request and allocate adequate finances for that programme. view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue that is worrying, although we congratulate the Government through the Ministry of Education for the free primary education, is the delay in getting those finances to our schools. Last year we toured the whole country. This year both primary and secondary schools have not received what they should have received to manage their affairs. We urge the able Minister to do everything possible to get those funds to schools on time in order for our schools to be able to implement the curriculum and other programmes necessary for quality education. view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to commend the Minister and his staff for the funds they are providing for infrastructure to our primary and secondary schools. That is good enough but not adequate. Therefore, a little more will be required to bring our school infrastructure to the standards where they will be able to offer quality education. Regarding the issue of posting P1 teachers, although we have a shortage of teachers, we have enough trained teachers but they are just at home. While I do appreciate that the marginalized areas need to be considered, why would the ... view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the issue of mobile schools, we have seen mobile schools operate in other countries. Why not in Northern Kenya and some parts of the Rift Valley? Time has come for every child to get basic education financed by the same Ministry and to access the same resources like other areas. view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: The other area that is very important is the School Feeding Programme. We are only talking about the semi-arid areas but a large area in this country which had not been affected before is now being affected by drought and famine. I request the Minister to consider all those areas that have been receiving foodstuff from the Central Government to be considered for the School Feeding Programme so that they can continue learning like other areas. We would also want to, in commending the Ministry, to request more consideration to be given to inspectors of schools or Quality Assurance officers. ... view
• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think I am astonished by the answer given by the Assistant Minister. The issue is very clear; that the police cannot investigate themselves. Does the Assistant Minister require a new law to get an independent body to investigate these cases all over the country? view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion. Indeed, from the outset, a lot has been said and without being repetitive, there are some observations that we should be able to make. One, for good schools, they require efficient management. Two, a good school requires adequate, experienced and well trained teaching staff. For a good school to deliver quality education, it requires adequate physical facilities. Also, we do require, in that good school that we are looking forward to, good and efficient management. That requires good and well trained head teachers and principals on human resource management. view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we do appreciate that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has given the Ministry of Education a lot of support in his Budget. I also commend the Minister for Education for having taken a lot of interest in improving our primary and secondary school education sector. However, it is also important for this House to note that the Government does not have all the resources that we may need to give the best education that this country can afford. On that same note, it is good to commend the private investors. What we ... view