Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my intervention is - and I want the whole world to hear - that I insist quite often that I have done my homework. I did my homework about the representation of the counties in the amendments. That is why I have been moving up and down. It has now turned out that… view
• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me finish. It has now turned out… view
• 26 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Off-record. view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: (Seme, ODM) view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I would also like to state that this is a very small part of the problems affecting the education sector. view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: As many Members have said, we have major security issues in the education sector, particularly in boarding schools. Members have indicated that there have been cases of rape and we know that. We know that there have been cases of destruction by fire and amazing destruction of our property by our students which we pay for as parents. Our children burn the dormitories and then we pay to construct others. We have noted that there have been cases of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: students attacking each other on issues of bullying, lesbianism and homosexuality. All these point to serious security problems. If CCTV cameras are on continuous monitoring basis, we will notice when these things are likely to happen and prevent them. However, the major issue is the whole education system. There must be something wrong that we need to look at. For example, discipline in schools. There are very few provisions for discipline by the school heads and boards. You can no longer give corporal punishment because it is not allowed. Expulsion which is now called exclusion is a long process that ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Even in the community at large, as parents, we have abdicated our duty of parenting and left it to the schools. Sometimes when there are attempts to discipline our children in schools, we, as parents, react very negatively. Teachers are taken to court and attacked. All these things bring massive indiscipline in schools. Even if we install the CCTV cameras, we will treat the symptoms but not the cause. We need to look at the whole education system and policies. We have had fantastic reforms. Some of them are very good. If you look at the results that we get, ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: We need to look at the issue of free secondary and primary education. It is in the policies but if you go to all schools, they charge levies that parents pay. The estimates that we have done do not seem to be enough to the extent that some schools keep double accounts - one for the Ministry of Education to see and one for the reality. We talk of 100 per cent transition in schools and yet, we are saying that we cannot establish new secondary schools. We have a new curriculum but we are not looking at the prerequisite ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Motion. view