Justus Kizito Mugali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 81 to 90 of 120.

• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Report. I would like to take the first opportunity to commend the Committee for having come up with a very good Report. I want to observe that this is not a negative Report. This is a very positive Report. For those who have gone through it, they will find that is not negative. It is very positive towards helping Kenyan universities. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should look at the reflection of the universities. Universities are a proper reflection of this nation. When we talk about ethnicity and tribalism, it is what goes on everywhere in the Government sector. So, universities will not be blamed only for that but let them go by merit. Let the people who manage offices do so by merit. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when it comes to Kenyatta University, I want to declare that I have been a former student in that university. That is where I did my masters degree in education administration and management. I want to say that on the management front, it will be very wrong to judge Kenyatta University and say that let them send autonomy to each and every school in that particular institution. This will be a recipe for chaos in that particular institution. We would like the Vice-Chancellor to decentralize the administration so that each and every department can have ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: As a woman Vice-Chancellor, I would like to tell this House that there is no other vice-chancellor who has driven that university to where it is now. I have been there for a long time and I know this. It has been restructured. It has increased in terms of courses. She has done very well and it is good for us to commend her for the good things that she has done. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to say that the students are young people in hot pursuit for knowledge. They are people with critical minds. These students come from our community, Kenya . They stay in this country and they see what happens here. They see a Minister exchanging words with the Prime Minister or disobeying the President. They see a Member of Parliament arguing with the Prime Minister and all these. They see councillors abusing one another and all those chaos happening in this country. What do you expect of them? Do you expect them to be ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, I would like to urge that if we can only encourage the vice-chancellors, not only of Kenyatta University, it will be very good. We are talking of Kenyatta University because this unrest has happened there but what about other universities? There are so many problems in other universities in this country. There is a lot of nepotism in them. I can quickly point out and say that there is a university in this country that has the vice-chancellor from one area. The deputy vice- chancellor is a cousin. All the administration from top to ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: So, the Ministry of Education should come up with a way of recognizing needy students and giving them bursaries or loans in good time so that we do not have these kind of situation recurring. The cause of the strike would have been the little things that pricked the whole balloon that was already red. I think there were other issues that might have triggered this but narrowing on only this, then we would be leaving other things outside. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thirdly, I would like to ask the politicians to keep off university students’ affairs. Let us go to the universities to advise students and help them learn. I can tell you that there was an election for KUSA and one Minister from Western Province gave Kshs150, 000 to a student and told him to make sure that he votes for leaders from our community. Therefore, it begins with us. So, we cannot go and pin down one individual. Politicians should leave students to practise their young democracy. We should not be the ones imposing what ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what could also have been the role of lecturers in this? I want to inform the Ministry of Education that they are underpaid. That is their major problem. Recently, I looked at the pay slip of my former lecturer who is a professor at Kenyatta University and he was earning less than Kshs100, 000. Now, a student from Shinyalu Constituency who did mechanical engineering and got a job recently earns Kshs169, 000 per month and yet it is the first degree. Then we are talking about a lecturer who is hungry and cannot meet his ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to point out that there are some disciplines in the university which are very controversial like philosophy and political science. They are critical subjects. They might be construed by students to mean that they are being incited. So, if we can find a way of enumerating lecturers well, then this country will move forward well. view