Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Dr. Jwan has 30 years’ experience in public service which is a long time. He spent a lot of this time at the KICD. That really puts him in good state to head the State Department for TVET. In curriculum development, you need to link education, skill and how you can feed that into the industry. The biggest problem we have in this country is unemployment amongst the youth. The only way you can solve that problem is to get young people who have skills. We should not get those who give papers in our offices but they do not ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I have realised that in the rural areas, Standard Eight dropouts sometimes end up employing people with Form Four education. They have realised that they would not find a job in an office. They work with them as masons and acquire skill. Sooner or later, they are able to do some jobs. Somebody gives them a house to build, a plaster to do or plumbing job. On the other hand, their colleagues who went up to Form Four who have knowledge without any skill, now come to work for them. That is why TVETs are here; to get ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: In my view, TVETs are going to be very key to the industrialisation of this country, particularly when looking at value addition and agro-industrialisation. As an agriculture-based economy, I do not see how we are going to move into industrialisation without going through agro-industrialisation. Who will do this? It is the people who come from TVETs. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: If you go to Gikomba, you will find that those people produce metal boxes and wheelbarrows. These are things many of them learnt on their own. What if they had an added advantage of having gone through formal training and formal education, giving them skills? This is an area that Dr. Jwan will help us actualise. We are talking of manufacturing. You do not need PhDs in engineering and manufacturing. You need technologies and technicians. The PhD and master’s degree holders design things but the actual doing is by technicians. That is why you will hear people saying that engineering ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: We talk of housing and assume that we are going to have high-level buildings. Real housing for people in the rural areas will be led by people who have these skills, who can build neat simple houses with proper electrification and proper plumbing systems. This will only come from the TVETs. Hon. Speaker, the Government has heavily invested in TVETs. I support this because it will take us far. Therefore, to appoint a man of this calibre is something I support. If he is hearing me, I hope that we are looking forward to changing our production. We should not ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: More importantly, again, that may not be achieved here because of the timelines we have put in the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, which is the reason the Committee has recommended that, that needs to be removed alongside the words, “if the House does not, they shall be deemed to have been appointed’. All that is contained in the Report. But you got it right because those are some of the concerns that the Committee has raised in its Report. All these Committees have had this kind of problem – that, you must give the public sufficient time but after ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this. I rise to support the Statement by the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the pre- budget conference. I appreciate that he has said that any other Member who may wish to attend is welcome. The BPS is the core document for the whole budgeting process. I have been concerned that the time we are given which is 14 days and seven days for the committees may not be enough. Sometimes I have wondered whether we cannot suspend the plenaries during this process. If you look at those documents, there is so ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: look carefully, what you tend to see is that the BPS is addressing to a large extent the national Government issues. You do not see a very clear link with county government issues. Therefore, it is so important. We have been accused sometimes that as Parliament, we do not want to give funds to the counties. At this moment, you get so many details which are coming from the national Government and a division which is already done on the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) recommendations and the 15 per cent rule without knowing exactly what is happening. Whereas that ... view
• 10 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the people of Seme, on my own behalf and that of my family, I take this opportunity to send our heartfelt condolences to the family of the late President Daniel arap Moi. The late President led this country for 24 years and we are what we are as a country today because of his leadership. May the Almighty God rest his soul in eternal peace. view
• 5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As I support the amendment, it is important that this regulation by the CS is taken very seriously. What we are doing here is allowing this board to borrow money. The regulations that are going to manage that money are being done by the CS. Therefore, we have to understand that very clearly. We are happy that we have a very good Committee that looks at regulations. This is something we have to look at very carefully in the future. Therefore, I support. view