Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: On the issue of giving assistance to the affected people, we will look at the law and see whether it is actually the Government who should be giving the compensation or it is the owners of the quarries. We know that this is where the law has been broken. The quarry owners were supposed to have prevented dust from reaching homesteads. So, the damage has been done. So, we are doing a very comprehensive study on those queries, because it is very important for us to use this to serve as an example for other parts of the country. view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, actions are already in place. From the day we closed the first quarry, we started trying to get a list of actually who owned the quarries that were exhausted and eventually abandoned them because those persons were licensed. So, already, there are things which are going on. We are trying to establish who were doing the quarrying and how we can get them back to do the refilling work. One of the actions the hon. Member is interested in is the back-filling of the abandoned quarries. In order for us to demand for back-filling, we must know ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to promise that I will deliver it by Tuesday. The draft reply was in the Minister’s Office. He travelled only last night without signing it. We had a few Questions--- view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the Motion. I appreciate the exposition of public policy by the Head of State. The Speech, to me, was fair. It touched on a number of issues. In particular I was appreciative of the leaning towards the implementation of the Constitution, and the big Statement by the President that the Grand Coalition Government is now determined to systematically implement the new Constitution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Tenth Parliament is a very fortunate Parliament to have been involved in the promulgation of the new Constitution. ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue I want to touch on briefly is the issue of youth. I was very appreciative that the President talked about the youth policy and actually decided in his own Statement that he would like the Youth Empowerment and Protection law to be fast-tracked, even though in the blueprint of the Constitution, it does not fall within the five years. Our youth are suffering. This country has not grown industrially. We have a document called Vision 2030, but we have not really industrialized, to the extent that we are really lacking as far ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: If you look at the way our examinations are done, we have 72,000 students doing Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) whereas we only have 50,000 positions for them to join Form One and only 80,000 in the universities. We have a lot of backlog and God knows what is going to happen to our youth because the pyramid is extremely sharp and we have very few people realizing their dreams in various positions. We must restructure the way we do things. I am hoping that this Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will come up with a law very ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion of adjournment. I support the Motion because it is time we took a break to go and reflect and perform one other function which Parliament must do, namely, oversight. We have a lot of programmes which are going on. We have the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) programmes and the Economic Stimulus Programme projects, which we must all go and look at. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to also urge hon. Members that we use this break to reflect on the Constitution. From the day ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will respond on Thursday next week. view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to request for two weeks to bring this Statement because I have a Statement to make arising from a trip that I made to Juja which is related to this one. So, if you could give me two weeks, I will combine both Statements. view