Jared Odhiambo Opiyo

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• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: and sometimes farmers are forced to sell their milk at such low prices such as Kshs27 per litre just because of the fear that their product will perish if they insisted on better prices. As country, we must encourage farmers to do their farming and also exist in co- operative societies. It will be the business of those co-operatives to bargain for the better prices of milk that we envisage. We know that the cost of feeds and medication for livestock is high. If we continue exposing our farmers to extremely low milk prices, the farmers will get discouraged and ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to second this Motion. First of all, I want to thank the Chair of the Committee. I also want to thank the Committee Members. They did a wonderful job. They sat through days and nights to ensure that they came up with this report. It was not as easy as some of us may think. It was really demanding. I want to speak to this report on a number of issues. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: One, when I came to this House, we committed ourselves as Members of this House to uphold the rule of law, and to defend the Constitution of the country. We did not have very specific and serious issues with the candidates, but we had very grave concerns with regard to the process that brought them to the Floor of this House. I want to draw our attention to the TSC Act, Section 8(7), which requires that a list of three and not seven be submitted to the President after duly having undergone approval by this august House. This was not ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: We also made several observations as has been well articulated by the Chair. Section 6(2) of the TSC Act envisages a situation where the Commission, which is more or less an executive Commission, has diversity of expertise. In our case, all the people who were presented to us for vetting had a background in education. Actually, 90 per cent of them do their job in Jogoo House. Outside there, the perception has been that the troubles at the TSC are a creation of Jogoo House. Up to recently, we were aware that the TSC has been a semi-autonomous Government agency ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I also want to add here that the issue of the TSC cannot be sorted out by the same people who seem to be the trouble makers at the TSC. Many reports of late through researches have been brought to our attention that literacy and numeracy among pupils in our primary schools is very bad. At Class Six, pupils are not able to read and write. At Class Six, basic numeracy is a mirage among our students. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to add here that we may not have had a lot of issues with these nominees with regard to their ability to perform. I want to draw the attention of the House that certain nominees actually raised concern about the moral issues regarding their appointment. For instance, Mr. William M. Mwita Makubo did the 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
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: interview and was ranked last. This gentleman was not in the list that was forwarded to the President for nomination by the selection, or interviewing panel. How on earth did this particular name find its way into Parliament? These are grave concerns that were raised by hon. Members of this Committee; we want to present to this House this anomaly for consideration. This is an august House and we cannot accept to sanction irregularities. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, before I rest my case, I want to add here that the vetting process also envisaged a situation where the vetting panel looks at national values. In the list of those people who were proposed for nomination, we had persons with disability who were capable, but they were omitted from the final list that found its way into this House. This is a grave matter because we committed ourselves to consider minorities and marginalized groups, including persons with disability. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I wind up, I want to ask this Parliament to consider positively the report laid on the Table of this House by the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. The House should do this with a view to approving it, so that it does not become a House that rubber stamps decisions of the Executive. In future, the due process must be followed by the appointing authorities. Vetting actually means that a process goes through all the stages before being brought to this House. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I second the Motion. view