John Lodepe Nakara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I am sorry, hon. Chairlady. I support the amendment because it will encourage our people to learn the Kenya Sign Language so that wherever they will be, they can communicate with the deaf. Secondly, it will create job opportunities for 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
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: interpreters in this country. Finally, it will encourage people who use sign language to perform fairly in their final exam. As hon. Mwaura has said, when deaf students do their final examinations, they do not perform very well because of the language problem. However, if we get teachers and interpreters who have learnt this language, they can perform very well in their final exams. With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 26 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much. I have just three points to make. First, as much as we want to privatise, we must make sure that all the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Directors of these companies who looted and made them go down on their knees are brought to book and repay the money to these companies or go to jail. They should not be given any other public office. If we leave them, it will be a habit. Everybody will go that way. Even if we privatise these companies they will still loot. Secondly, as much as we want to ... view
• 26 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Whether they are poor or able to pay, we must encourage them to buy these pieces of land so that they can do business from those farms. If we allow outsiders to buy the land some local people will become landless. Some will have no place to stay and they will be poorer than they are now. So, as much as we want to privatise these industries, we must ensure that local people are empowered to own the pieces of land. Whether it is jointly by groups or collective funding, we must give them opportunity to own the pieces of ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The work of Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) cannot be by-passed by anybody. In this country, CDF is only comparable to M-Pesa . The sectors that are going to be affected if this CDF is eliminated include education. In Turkana County, where I come from, if it were not for CDF, it would have taken us another 30 to 40 years to be where we are now. Because of the CDF, I found few projects which were done in very remote areas, where certain types of vehicles cannot reach. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: school in a very remote place called Kerio. For four years nobody came to the rescue of the school and build a laboratory for it. The CDF completed everything but nobody came again after that. It was not until I came in that we built a laboratory for it. No other person, including the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), which are there and the county money came to their rescue except the CDF. I do not want to emphasise this very much. In the health sector, the CDF has made sure that dispensaries are built in rural settings where women have had ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Finally, there is an activist chairman called Nyachae in this country. view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Okay, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand corrected. The Chairman of CIC spends a lot of money putting adverts in newspapers now and then. That is the money that would have been used to help poor people somewhere. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, I do not want to oppose your judgment. However, if the Member has spoken here and he denies the rest of us who have sat here from 9.30a.m. a chance to contribute, that is not fair. But otherwise I agree with your judgment--- view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. When other hon. Members are talking about free education, some of us have not yet realised the benefit of free education. This is because in the county I come from, Turkana County, the catchment for secondary schools are not boarding schools and you know we are pastoralists. Our children move with their parents from one place to another. The only way that we can realise the benefits of free secondary school is by making primary schools to be boarding schools in Turkana County. view