Dr. Valerian Kilemi Mwiria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the difficulties of awarding loans to all post-graduate students has to do with how much money is available even for the undergraduate students. Assume 1,000 students wanted to pursue post-graduate studies. The total cost would be Kshs300,000 per annum per student for four years, which would be about Kshs300 million for those students. So, in terms of equity, we would be denying many other undergraduate students an opportunity, and yet if you already have a first degree, you have a better chance of finding something to do compared to someone who has not already enroled in university. ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am glad that we have continued to recover money from students, but I must also say that this is only a fraction. There are many students whom we cannot reach to recover these amounts of money. When this money is recovered, it goes back to the pool for undergraduate students. So, we are able to support a minimal number of students. I would like you to remember that we have now even opened the programme to students in the so-called "Parallel Degree Programmes". So, we have many more thousands of students to cater for than before. ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: 2580 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 8, 2008 PLIGHT OF VIHIGA TEACHERS SACCO MEMBERS view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute. Like those who have spoken before me, I would like to congratulate the Minister for Education and his staff for doing a very good job under very difficult circumstances. This is a Ministry that I think takes care of more employees than most ministries put together in this country. There have been major crises. I think it has been tough but they have handled them very professionally. I would also want to commend the Minister for being very fair in the way business is done at ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Motion on our liberation and the people who did so much to get us free to even be able to be speaking, as we are in Parliament today. It is good that we recognise that this goes beyond the Kikuyu, Meru and Embu people, to include the Nandi, as the last speaker has said, as well as the Pokots. In fact, there was a big massacre of the Pokot people by the British in 1950, where more than 500 Pokots were massacred October 8, ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: , but we rarely remember those kind of people. I do not remember any of the freedom fighters who has been honoured by any of the former Presidents. They did much more than some of the people who get these honours. We should go back, get them listed and support them. We should also have national days in which we remember them. Why should we have Kenyatta Day? Is Kenyatta the only one who fought for Independence? I would propose we call that day Heroes Day so that we can remember all the heroes. I really hope Parliament will support ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also like to suggest that we consider having one day for all former Heads of State. It can be called Heads of State Day if we have to remember all of them. But this business of being sycophantic and every time coming up with an excuse to say, "we have to give you a day because you have done so much", even when you have blundered so much, is unfortunate. It is high time, we reserved that order only for those who fought for this country. With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The criteria used to award commonwealth scholarships is the following:- (i) First, of course, the candidate has to apply before he or she is shorlisted for the interview. 2352 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE August 6, 2008 (ii) You must meet certain qualfiications. The first one being that if you have a first degree you must have a first class honours or an upper second class honours for the masters degree. For the Phd, you need to have a proposal and do well in the interview. (iii) With regard to age, for the masters ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the fact that no candidate from Samburu has not got that scholarship for the last ten years is not necessarily an indication of discrimination. If you consider that there are about ten to 12 shcolarships that are awarded every year in 152 districts, that is a total of 100 scholarships, at least 40 districts in this country in the last ten years would not have got that scholarship. So, the first issue has got to do with the numbers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also realise the disadvantages Samburu and other marginalised communities have got to ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, he knows that he is one of the very few from that region who have got that far. view