Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I support the Bill, which is long overdue. It is important that the Senate has eventually brought it up. The Bill addresses the most fundamental area of human development, in line with the constitutional right of the child. This afternoon, we passed the Sessional Paper on the National Children Policy and the Sessional Paper on the National Policy on Elimination of Child Labour. All these are related to early childhood education. Early childhood education is not simply education, but it also relates to the ... view
• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: recognises the role of parents. That is extremely important. It also recognises that the policies or programmes that we put in place must be evidence-based. Clause 6 goes further to enforce the right to education by providing free and compulsory education. This means that county governments have to put aside an adequate amount of money to provide for infrastructure and other requirements. We cannot put punitive measures to parents while county governments are not able to provide what is needed. Therefore, we need more ECDE centres and if a child does not go to school, then the parents will be ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I support the object of this Bill which is to open the Kenyatta Mausoleum to the public and to have it managed under the National Museums and Heritage Act. This is great recognition of the contribution of the founding father of this nation, not only to the history of this country but to the history of Africa. This is particularly recalling his involvement in the Pan-African Movement at the time. This was the great period when Africa thought that one day it will manage ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: good to enjoy our diversity but it must be enjoyed in the context of a singular nation that is in our hearts. You hear the problems we have in our universities in the counties. When we get to that level, we want to see ourselves as belonging to particular ethnic groups. That will not take Kenya far. We must maintain the vision of our forefathers. The Bill, in my view, should look a little further than just the Mausoleum of the late President Kenyatta, the founding father. We should broaden our outlook to include all the mausoleums of all other ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I only have two hands and so, I cannot raise more. The passage of this Bill is extremely important in the process of devolution. It is unthinkable that three years down the line, we have county assemblies operating without any legislation on privileges. Anybody can walk into those county assemblies, arrest any of them and take them to court. I do not think we would have anything to say. What is important about this is to look at how we are dealing with devolution. The fact that this has come late is an indication of many ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise not to support, but to raise a caution. As you have guided before and as this Amendment Bill starts, Amendment Bills make minor amendments and do not substantially change laws. They are not big enough to warrant a new Bill. The trend that I am seeing is that these Amendment Bills sometimes appear like they are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: making very minor changes. If you look seriously, many of them are changing the constitution of boards. Once the constitution of a board is changed, the whole Act is affected by representation. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: I will not go further than raising that caution because I have seen even in this Amendment Bill most of the amendments are seeking to change the constitution of boards. Some are giving more powers to the CS, some are removing specified organisations like the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) and the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE). I am happy that two were removed. I had looked in detail at the two that were removed and they were actually substantial. In future, I will propose that a way be found, perhaps through the Speaker’s Office, to scrutinise what Committees ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: I just wanted to throw that caution for my colleagues to look into carefully. I will look at it carefully so that when we come to the second stage, there are certain amendments that we may reject through amendment of amendments. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. view