Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is an extremely important Petition. We would like the Committee to look at the details in a scientific academic manner and bring out the truth. The concern that seems to come from us, Members of Parliament, is that private schools have not done well and perhaps something was done and that is why they did not do well. However, look at what we are saying. For years when public schools were not doing well, we never raised a Petition. It is as if it was accepted that public schools should perform poorly. Leaders of the ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: who come with grade ‘B’ doing well. In fact, some of us can tell this House that several years after Independence, it is the public schools that were doing well; they were the gold standard. In reality, it is private schools that should perform poorly. Public schools should be the gold standard but let us find the truth. However, should it come out that actually the feeling is that private schools should do better, then as a House and as leaders we would have let our people down because we should be more concerned when public schools where the children ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. We are seeing a transition. For some who may know a little history, this actually happened in the country in 1962 when we had primary schools going up to Standard Four and then the very few intermediate schools going up to Standard Eight. There was a common entrance examination. Kids were expected to do the Standard Four common entrance examination and then only those who passed proceeded to intermediate schools. When this was moved, it was similar to the 100 per cent transition. What eventually happened - and it is what we may look at - ... view
• 4 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: schools. Day schools are much cheaper. Parents are dying from the cost of boarding schools. One child in a poor household takes up all the resources when they get into a boarding school. As we look at this policy, we can have all students moving gradually to Form Four and most schools becoming day schools to reduce the cost of education. That is something that we should look at in proper progression of this policy. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. The County Governments (Amendment) Bill is important. I must appreciate the work the Senate has done in bringing this Bill to us. It addresses the issue of human resource at the county level which is a big problem. It is part and parcel of the process of devolution. Human resource clearly indicates that we have to look at the processes that we have put in place at the county level. Human resource at the county level has several problems, one being numbers. The county government ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: country through their unions, associations and various authorities see themselves as one, while the county government are seeing them as just a Laikipia problem. Since the law supports these structures, they can legally mobilise for a problem that is one county to affect the whole country and we always see this. Hon. Deputy Speaker, there is a provision in the County Governments Act that where you have such an issue, we can seek the guidance of the Public Service Commission (PSC). I think that has not worked very well. As I said, an example is when the health workers in ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Waqf Bill. This Bill is important; it provides a framework for managing endowments that are given for charity. I think in every society, it is important that charity is given and properly managed. If it is done in line with the Islamic religion, I see nothing wrong with that because in the other many laws that they have, they take into consideration other religions. If for instance you take the Marriage Act, it looks at the traditional practices and all the laws. That is acceptable because the law accommodates ... view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: I second. view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: As I second, let me just say that people really did not understand the full meaning but I second. However, what it means is, it has gone to the Marriage Act and that is how the Marriage Act defines it. So, to a large extend, that is basically it. I second. view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. First of all, I must applaud Hon. Wamunyinyi. I rise to support this Bill. One, this Bill demonstrates the folly of trying to put many industries together like we tried with the other Act. We have to go back. This Bill recognises the appalling state of the sugar industries. The farmers are poor. The sugar-cane in some places is rotting in the field. Some is being burnt so that it can be cut. The millers that we know are all dead and, if they are working, they are doing ... view