Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 11 to 20 of 3022.

• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: when they are recess, on the allocation of scholarships and bursaries by county governments. I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT AWARE THAT, the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution distributes functions and powers between the National and County Governments with paragraph 16 of Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule providing that the national Government shall be responsible for university and tertiary education institutions, other institutions of research and higher learning and primary schools, secondary schools and special education institutions; FURTHER AWARE THAT, paragraph 9 of Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution confers to county ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to move the following Motion- THAT the Senate notes the report of the 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference held in Accra, Ghana from the 30th September to 6th October, 2023 laid on the Table of the Senate on Wednesday 14th February 2024. The 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference took place from the 30th September to the 6th October, 2023 in Accra, Ghana, under the theme of the view
• 23 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First, may I start by congratulating our colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, for coming up with a very beautiful piece of legislation. For those of us who have travelled to Rwanda, we see this as a very important step in the right direction. In Rwanda, you do not see more than one passenger on a boda boda. In fact, they are so organised that when we were there for sports, we kept asking ourselves, what happened to us? How do we introduce motorbikes and confuse the roads ... view
• 23 Jul 2024 in Senate: very important that we consider this because it is the mode of transport that is most commonly used. It reaches every corner of our country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also join colleagues who have raised an issue with Clause 13(2)(b) which introduces PwDs to be exempted from the requirements of sitting astride. I persuade our Senator that it should include PwDs and women. When this law takes effect and we have only one passenger on a boda boda, it will be possible to sit facing one direction. I persuade that it should come from him so that we reduce ... view
• 23 Jul 2024 in Senate: ambulances, we will make it so easy for governors to ignore very rural areas in two ways, provision of the ambulances and provision of roads. The reason our people are using boda bodas as ambulances is because there are no roads. They are using very narrow paths to take people to hospital. We know that in some areas you even have to carry people literally using a sack and four men to get them to the main road. We should ask governors to take responsibility of our health. Health is a right in our Constitution that should cover everybody. We ... view
• 11 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you, for the opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. I thank you and the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders for allowing us time to ventilate on what is going on in our country. I was in South Africa with Sen. Mungatana, but we could not rest without watching you in this Senate. We kept going back to the records in the evening to make sure that we are with you. I thank Senators because I felt extremely proud to be a Senator The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. ... view
• 11 Jul 2024 in Senate: in this time because of the contributions they made. I really felt happy that, at least, we are holding the bull by the horns as they call it. This Senate has made all of us proud by the contributions that they have made. I will not, therefore, repeat some of the things that have been said; I will just capture a few areas. I am a Member of the Standing Committee on Education. Therefore, I will touch on education and the issues that were highlighted by our youth. Before I say that, I condole with the families that lost their ... view
• 11 Jul 2024 in Senate: bursary through which they are trying to bring free education. Our youth are telling us that even that bursary is released in a very discriminative manner. Not everybody who is needy is given that money. During our days, bursaries belonged to people who were not able and anybody able was not given. Today, nobody knows who gives the bursaries. More still, especially when it comes to this House, the bursaries have moved from being a national agenda to the counties. How did the governors decide to give bursaries? Today, in the Education Committee, we went through the analysis from the ... view
• 11 Jul 2024 in Senate: inequity in development and resources. The Members of Parliamen at that time, which I was not at that time, but in a committee that was discussing development, were fed up with moving from one Ministry to the other. You would go beg for one hospital in one place, then to another Ministry to beg for one road, then beg the Minister for Water for money to dig a borehole. All those are supposed to be things of the past with the new Constitution. It was very clear that we were doing two things; devolving power and devolving resources. Have we ... view
• 11 Jul 2024 in Senate: I do not want to take more time because many things have been raised by our colleagues. I would like to end by saying, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support you, and I am very proud of this Senate. view