Julius Kipbiwot Melly

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Yes, I beg to reply. Under Standing Order No.53, I beg that we defer voting to another day because of the numbers. 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
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Early Childhood Education Bill (Senate Bill No.26 of 2018) be now read the Second Time. This is a very important Bill for this nation. In my submission, I have looked at the Bill in various parts. The Bill seeks to provide a framework for the establishment of systems for administration of early childhood education within the counties. As I speak, we have no legal framework on early childhood education. You will realise that counties are running the early childhood education without any clear legal framework. This is a very important ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Paragraph 9 of Part 11 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution provides that free primary education is a function of county governments. County governments are, therefore, conferred with the mandate of ensuring the implementation of early childhood education within the counties. Though the policy and the planning part remains at the national level, this Bill seeks to address and to put the law in place, so that early childhood education is done well by the county governments. Part I of the Bill provides the preliminary provisions including the Short Title and the interpretation of terms as used in the ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: has tried to improvise so that the physically challenged like those who have issues of mobility can use the facility well. This is something we have told all CECMs in charge of education to ensure that this is provided for. Part III of the Bill provides for the establishment of registration and maintenance of early childhood education centres in county governments. The application for registration shall be submitted to the County Education Board (CEB) in prescribed form. In fact, this Bill seeks to look at the sector in a radical way. As we move forward, early childhood education centres shall ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: of all the ECDEs across the country shall be developed by the KICD in conjunction with the CECM. Part V of the Bill provides for the accreditation of ECDE offering foreign curriculum by the CEB. An education centre shall submit an application for accreditation. We are talking about foreign curricula. We have certain ECDE centres in this case. They offer foreign curricula. Those which offer GCE or other type of curricula have to be accredited or approved by the CEBs. Most of those are very common in the City of Nairobi, where we have a number of educational institutions offering ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: centre should meet the requirements prescribed in the Bill. This is an area where, if we get it right, we shall have no issues at the level of secondary schools and colleges. Cases of collapsed buildings and fires will be a thing of the past. The Bill also outlaws corporal punishment. Section 65 states: view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: (1) No teacher or any staff of an education centre shall administer corporal punishment. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: (2) A child in an education centre shall not be subject to emotional or psychological abuse. A few weeks ago, I stood before this House to issue a statement on a child who passed on. It was alleged that she was abused by a teacher. She was stigmatised and traumatised and she committed suicide. The Bill intends to ask head-teachers, teachers and handlers at the ECD centres not to subject learners to corporal punishment because it is illegal and a psychological abuse to the young ones. It is bound to injure them. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an ... view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The First Schedule provides the criteria for determining the suitability of premises for the conduct of early childhood education. The Second Schedule provides for the conduct of affairs of the board of management of Early Childhood Education centres. This Schedule has clearly brought out how the ECD centres will be handled. The Bill affects the functions of the county government. It concerns the counties for purposes of the Standing Orders. We are aware this is a Senate Bill, but we will debate and dispense with it. On public participation and stakeholder participation, the Early Childhood Education Bill (Senate Bill No.26 ... view