John Owuor Onyango Kobado

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this particular Sessional Paper. This Paper will serve to help reform and regulate the training environment. Two, it will also help to reform skills acquisition, competitiveness and, more so, the competencies of the trainers. In this country, we have broadly about three platforms of training. If you look at what is stated in the Paper, attachment and training have been, for a long time, treated separately. But in my view, attachment is just a stage in the training process. Training would start with theory where the trainees are ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: We require a paradigm shift in the training environment. The thinking must shift from training for employment to training for employability. We are also trying to internationalize trainings so that those who train in this country can ultimately be exported to the neighboring countries. We can export human resource to developed world because Kenya has institutions that have trained and produced many skilled workers. So, that can only be done if all those are harmonized. Lastly, training is a tripartite arrangement that involves the employer represented by the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE), the employees represented by the Central Organization ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. First, I would like to congratulate Hon. Sakaja for this very innovative Bill. Allow me to start by quoting Charles Kettering, who was an American engineer, and whose 140 patents included the electric starter and the car lighting and ignition system. Kettering once stated very eloquently that: “My concern was with the future since I intend to spend the rest of my life there.” The future of this nation should be in the hands of the youth. As leaders, we should only be concerned about their future. The youth ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Report. First, I would like to congratulate the Committee for a job well done. Indeed, being a new Committee, it has done very well. However, there is room for improvement. The Committee can still make the Report a little bit better. This Committee can, more or less, engage in the work of monitoring, control and evaluation of the resolutions that we make and ensure that they are properly implemented. What you could have done, perhaps, is to take advantage of Standing ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Report. First, I would like to congratulate the Committee for a job well done. Indeed, being a new Committee, it has done very well. However, there is room for improvement. The Committee can still make the Report a little bit better. This Committee can, more or less, engage in the work of monitoring, control and evaluation of the resolutions that we make and ensure that they are properly implemented. What you could have done, perhaps, is to take advantage of Standing ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, allow me to start by thanking Hon. Wangwe for this very innovative amendment Bill. This is a Bill that is touching on weighty issues affecting this nation. As a pointer to the gravity of this matter, allow me to refer this House to an article that appears in today’s Daily Nation, and is attributed to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. Kaimenyi, where he states that over two million Kenyan children are not attending school. If this is from Jubilee Government, then I am sure the figure is even higher. We could be talking about five million ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: sense that it addresses issues to do with inefficiency and wastage in our education system. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: An examination is the tangible output of an education process and so it is critical. That is why we are saying that examinations should be made free. If we are going to talk about quality education, then we have to address the entire education value chain. Quality must start from Early Childhood Education (ECD), primary up to secondary school, if we are going to talk about basic education. Quality should be at a price that you can afford. You cannot talk about quality of food in Intercontinental Hotel if you cannot afford to taste it. So, it is quality at ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: We need to address ourselves to the issues of retention and transition. I agree with my good colleague, Hon. Sakaja. We need to look at the transition rate. There is a very high dropout rate at Class Eight. Those who do not proceed to Form One in this country are so many. The percentage is very high. Unless the Government takes this seriously, so that we align the education sector to the Constitution, 2010 and Vision 2030, we may not get anywhere. Education is an equaliser, and it is the only strategy that you can use to narrow the gap ... view