Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, all my discussions are actually related to supporting my amendments. Today, ranking has also been commercialised to a large extent. Schools even stop kids from doing exams. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand guided. In this country, we have had many task-forces and committees set up to look at the issues and problems in the education sector, ranging from discipline to inability of our graduates to live up to their grades. Sometimes, there have been complaints that they do not measure to the standards after they have passed very well. All those task forces, as far back as the Koech Task Force to as recently as the Kilemi Mwiria’s Task Force, the Douglas Odhiambo’s Task Force and a Report of a Committee in the Tenth Parliament which ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am asking hon. Gumbo to second my amendments. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I will be very brief. We have done a great thing that we have come out and agreed with the Senate and that is really going to progress things. I want to just say one thing and I would like to address it to the young Parliamentarians. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: If hon. Sakaja would listen to me, I want to tell him that the youth are really disadvantaged and I have noticed that even with the Uwezo Fund that we have, they have difficulty in filling the forms. What I have noticed is that the civil society has done a big job in making the youth politically sensitised but they have done very little in making them able to do things that will help them in income generation. You would do a great job even as a group of young people to change the philosophy of the civil society. In ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this. I stand to support the decision of the Committee. This Bill seeks to do only two things. One, it seeks to create a Third Schedule in the County Governments Act. That Schedule provides which towns are going to be the headquarters of the various counties. I have not got any information even from the Committee on the process that the Senate used to reach this decision. We know that there have been a lot of discussions in various counties to decide on their headquarters. That is ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: emotive issues. People should be allowed to ventilate as much as they can. They should be allowed to talk to each other, have town hall meetings and find ways through which consensus can be reached. Once consensus is reached by the people then that is how it should be. This Bill also seeks to define cities which are already defined in The Urban Areas and Cities Act. The only centres that may qualify as cities according to the law are Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu. The rest should be left to the people of the counties. Even if it were that ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to express myself on this. I will start by saying that I support the appointment of Mr. Boinnet for the simple reason that we cannot stay without an Inspector-General of 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
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Police. This is because internal security, which has been our problem for a long time, is basically, and to a large extent, a police affair and, therefore, we need somebody in that position as soon as possible. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I see a few comments that the Committee made. I think sometimes when Committees make recommendations, the more they try to justify an issue the more they tend to draw people’s attention to it, and actually make it look negative; it is like dragging the bottom to get something. I think the issue of education has been raised a lot. ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: these ranks together and in the long run have one command. There is no administrative structure where parallel commands work. So, I am happy that he realises that. On the issue of corruption, I do not think it is just a matter of travelling to many countries to see how corruption is dealt with. Hon. Cheptumo said that he is a man of integrity, he goes to church and, maybe, he is on the right track; corruption in this country will not be won by police circles, with guns or by taking people to jail. We have to look at ... view