Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in passing my condolences to the family of hon. John Michuki. I have worked under hon. Michuki as his Assistant Minister. He was a very intelligent man. He was very courageous. He was a man who was extremely thorough in everything that he did. This country is going to miss him. I think I happen to be the last person to have been in an official function with him. We were in a meeting in Durban, South Africa, in December, 2011, preparing for the ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to join my colleagues in thanking the hon. Attorney-General for brining this Motion to this House which I support. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. You are right because you even saw me and yet I was standing at the corner. I do not think there is any obstruction. I just want to thank the Attorney-General for--- view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think these Members are bent on distracting me. I would like to support this Motion, because the issue of partnership has created a lot of acrimony among Kenyans. We have heard enmity arising out of how partnerships are formed. Sometimes people are taken advantage of. People have entered into partnerships only to discover that their liabilities have been generated without them knowing. I have seen cases personally, where members of a partnership are employees of the same partnership and there has not been a very clear way of trying to sort them out. ... view
• 9 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am sure hon. Members have seen in the Press that our institutions of higher learning called for a strike yesterday. As I mentioned yesterday, there is a problem with that kind of a strike because there was no room given for dialogue. But before I make any further comments, maybe, I should respond, first, to the questions that came in. view
• 9 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, hon. Langat asked whether universities must always go on strike to be heard. I would like to say “no.” But the nature of unions is such that they negotiate their terms and salaries. So, the process is a normal one. The issue is that it should never boil down to going for a strike. So, negotiation is part of the whole deal when you have a union. I mentioned yesterday that since 2003, universities have been allowed to have unions, both at the senior and low level. There is the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) for ... view
• 9 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Okay, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, hon. Wamalwa wanted to know what has been done by the Government. I said that on 13th October, we had the first meeting where the issue of the circular from Amb. Muthaura was questioned. We were able to agree that we were going to work on that. As I mentioned earlier, we were able to surmount that one. We even had another meeting on 19th and the process has been on up to yesterday when they did not go to Kisumu. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, hon. Mungatana asked why we lengthen ... view
• 9 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the first question from Mr. Koech on what the Government is doing to stop this strike. Discussions are going on right now. We are still trying to jump-start negotiations because it is the only way. Unless we come around a table and discuss, there is no other way we can jump-start this. I also want to say that we are discussing with the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE). According to FKE, this is an illegal strike because there was no stalemate in the negotiation itself. We actually believe that there was nothing. According to the ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. (a) The university management has not initiated a move to abolish the School of Environmental Studies in Moi University. The school has not been abolished. It has been relocated to Chepkoilel University College based on the implementation of the Moi University Strategic Plan, 2005- 2015 which was conceived when Chepkoilel University College was still a campus of Moi University. It is also indicated in the Strategic Plan 2009-2015. (b) It is not true that the staff and students have been forced to move to Chepkoilel University College. As stated above, the decision ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no problem with infrastructure. As a Ministry, we are trying to give capital development funds to all institutions. As you and hon. Members are aware, there are many campuses which have been converted into university colleges recently and we will continue to convert more. The responsibility of infrastructural development lies between the Ministry and the university councils. We will endeavor to make sure that each new university college has adequate facilities to perform the duties of producing students through the faculties and schools that have been allocated to the university colleges. So, that is ... view