Hon Jeremiah Omboko Milemba

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to make my contribution. First, I thank Hon. Murugara for a very good Motion. I will be quick to indicate that village elders are the remnants of the African traditional structure of government that remained with us after colonialism, alongside the chiefs. Village elders were the original colonial structure of administration. They have special days set aside for them to brief chiefs and assistant chiefs. If they are accommodated into the pay structure of the Government, they will form the sixth layer of the Provincial Administration in this country. This is ... view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Like it has already been indicated, there are about 30,000 village elders who work in about 6,500 sub-locations. They render voluntary work to this country. Unfortunately, when we had the most recent survey from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), they ranked them very high alongside other groups of people, moreso, the teams that register persons in the country. Because they do voluntary work, they look for a way of paying themselves through small fines which are called by different names in different communities. To mainstream this structure and make them operate properly without affecting the entire community by imposing ... view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Without much ado, I can see that time is not on my side, I want to support this Motion and urge that these village elders to be paid. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Members who have raised the Petitions, especially the one on hardship allowance. I will be very precise. That is one of the petitions that keep on coming to Parliament. It used to come to Parliament before I came. When it comes, there is no particular Committee or department of Government that wants to deal with it directly. It is normally referred to the Departmental Committee on Education and Research but later on when you talk to the TSC they tell you that this matter can only be dealt with by the Ministry of ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Leader of the Minority Party has done well in profiling Prof. Magoha, but towards the end, he alludes to the fact that in future he wants this country to have Presidents who are 60 years and above. Is he doubting the performance of the existing Presidents today who are not… view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the nomination of Prof. Magoha to be appointed Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education. All his good attributes have been stated, but I want to remind him that his job at the Ministry is well cut. There is the new education curriculum that is wanting. We are not sure what will be happening. The textbook policy is a challenge in the Ministry now. Schools are now being flooded with books, including books they do not need. The National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) is wanting while at the same time luck of birth certificates, which ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: More importantly, Prof. Magoha is a man who has a lot of precision in surgery. He is now going to an area where that precision must be seriously harmonised with other factors. The view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: education sector demands public participation. It also demands that one shares the interests of the people. The stakeholders in the education sector are very many. The teachers’ unions have been alluded to, but there are also many stakeholders including parents’ associations and the students’ councils, which must also be listened to. The stature he gives is that of arrogance. I have seen many speakers here try to harmonise that stature. They could have used the word “assertive”. I want to believe that the word “assertive” does not have the same meaning as “arrogance”. As he moves to the Ministry of ... view