Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I support the report because we do not want to give our governors any excuses. Our governors have been giving us excuses that they do not have money and that is why they have not paid this or that. However, we know that the process of development in a county is such that you must have an annual plan. If governors truly have annual plans, they should only plan for the money that they have. We should not be having a lot of pending bills. Pending bills have been ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: we did that, we may not need new money. All we need to do is to shrink the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development accordingly. There are personnel who have not been devolved even when agriculture was devolved. The same thing with the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health was devolved dominantly, but the personnel we have in Afya House are still intact. We need to ask ourselves, what we devolved and then follow it with the money. If we did that, we may not even require new money. It may just require us to relocate the money to ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: The other one that I want to mention is the issue of a university called Moi University. Moi University is the second university in this country. The problems and the challenges of Moi University are not being analysed properly. Moi University gave birth to 12 universities. In giving birth to 12 universities it spent its own internal resources. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it will surprise you that the mother university called the University of Nairobi refused to mother small universities. They had one or two universities. Perhaps, Kenya Science and Technical University only because they knew of the financial implications. ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: A point of information from my student of Moi University, I will take. view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you. I just want to mention that the information is a little bit confusing for my students. It is confusing because it is true that there are governance issues, not just in Moi University, but in all universities in Kenya as we are talking. view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: It is okay they can inform me. view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: My students are even confusing it further, but I am going to help them, because I am in the Senate Standing Committee on Education. We want to make things clear, because there are things that are governance issues, which exist in any university, and we cannot deny. Once upon a time, I was a Minister in the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology. During my time, President Kibaki started 15 universities. Of the 15 universities, the one that was started is Jaramogi Odinga, the vice-chancellor was from the village. The one that was started in Kitui, where my other ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: So, let us not see the tribe because, if somebody says I oversaw tribal installations, it actually happened at that time that people who went back home for interviews, for instance when you talk of Masinde Muliro University, the people who went home for interviews are actually from the neighbourhood. We did not mind, as long as the Chairman of the Council was from outside. These universities came to prominence. However, I love my students because they love their university. They would not be talking if they did not love Moi University. So, for that, I really appreciate their comments. ... view
• 17 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I have one question for Hon. Mutuse, on the witness by the name Peterson Njomo Muchira, who swore an affidavit that touches on Olive Garden Hotel. He offered himself to appear and be cross-examined on the content of his affidavit. Was he invited? view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to support the Motion on the report from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP). As has been mentioned by our Chair and able leader of the delegation the Hon. Sen. Mungatana, MGH, I am a Member of this delegation. I really appreciate the work that goes on in the PAP. It is out of the coming together of the African nations that we can realise the real development of the continent. As it was mentioned by Sen. Mumma, it is surprising that the boundaries that we have today have disadvantaged the continent more ... view