Dr. Valerian Kilemi Mwiria

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 401 to 410 of 862.

• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is no new district in this country where recruitment exercise was carried out. The reason is that the infrastructure is not in place. The District Education Officers and Quality Assurance Officers are not in place. This applies to the all the new districts in the country. Kianjai which the hon. Member referred to happens to be in my constituency. The understaffing in Kianjai is 22 teachers. That is not the problem. When we recruit, it is clearly stated that teachers would be sent to areas like Lare Division where he needs more teachers. Kianjai will get ... view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said here last week and the week before that we have found out that even politicians can be more tribal than those leading political parties when it comes to their specific needs. It is very surprising that Mr. Maore and I come from the same district; Tiganias and Igembes. We basically speak the same language. It is the same problem like that of the Somalis where they have clans fighting. If this happens in Igembe and Tigania what can we expect in the wider country where we have huge tribes, if we have to be fighting ... view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was saying that the only way to get out of this problem is for us to centralise recruitment, so that we do not insist that we have to recruit teachers from our September 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3967 own villages. If as a Member of Parliament I want to recruit teachers from my village, I should pay them personally from my own salary. If we want teachers to be recruited by the Government of Kenya, we must not expect them to come from our villages. view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not have to assist my colleague. The guidelines are very clear that when we recruit, more teachers will go to his division. view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it depends on how you define equity. If equity is in terms of ensuring that specific districts recruit more teachers, it is quite different from whether or not, you will be equitable in terms of how you treat candidates irrespective of where they come from in this country. When you say you have to recruit from your village and discriminate against young people from anywhere in Kenya who have the qualifications, I think we cannot pretend to want to be Members of a National Assembly and still want to be local when it comes to employment. To ... view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am speaking as the Assistant Minister and not as the MP for Tigania, which, of course, I am proud to be because without Tigania I would not be a Member of Parliament. First of all, it is not true that 90 per cent of the slots will go to Tigania. That is very unfair of the hon. Member to--- view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member knows we have a chance of going back to Tigania and Maua over the weekend. So, we can pick it up from there. However, the best way to be fair to Lare Division and other areas in this country where understaffing is such a serious problem, is to ensure that when we recruit, we give them a proportionate number of teachers depending on need. That is exactly what we will do in the case of Mr. Maore. We will require all the teachers that 3968 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 18, 2007 are recruited and deployed ... view
• 13 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The Ministry of Education has no immediate plans to upgrade Kirinyaga Technical Institute to university status. The current policy of the Ministry is to upgrade institutes to national polytechnics before they can attain university status. Polytechnics are the ones which offer diploma and Higher National Diploma courses. view
• 13 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Karaba knows that there are many institutions which are collaborating with universities that are not constituent colleges of universities. I answered a Question here on this matter before. The point is that universities can collaborate with institutions, but it is up to the Ministry, and the Government to gazette institutions as constituent colleges of universities before they can gain university status. So, collaboration with a university is not a guarantee that the institution will gain university status. A university cannot decide that an institution becomes its constituent college just because there is collaboration between the ... view
• 13 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, universities are not mushrooming in every village. Where institutions have been upgraded, it was after consultation and recommendations of the Universities Inspection Board. Secondly, I agree with the hon. Member that--- view