Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 321 to 330 of 3022.

• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to join you and all Senators in mourning the death of our third President, H.E. Emilio Mwai Kibaki. On behalf of the people of Uasin Gishu County and my family and myself, let me take this opportunity to pass my most sincere condolences to the family of the departed former President. My prayers are with them that they be comforted of the living God at this very difficult time. I am one person who was honoured to work as a Minister under President Mwai Kibaki. Mr. ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will always remember him for his patience, guidance and a calm way of instructing you. He never came out loud but he was also extremely focused. Every time we went to see him, he was very clear on where we were meant to go and he would tell us to do it. The late President Mwai Kibaki was known for saying that once he gave you a job, he expected you to do it and you were only required to update him. view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: One amazing thing that the late President Kibaki did is that he refused to be a Chancellor of any university. He only took Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. As we prepared this, I would go back and ask him if we could give him more universities as their Chancellor but he would refuse saying there were many Kenyans who could be Chancellors. He said he only wanted to be a Chancellor of only one university where he could attend and preside over its graduation. This was a humbling comment from a Head of State. He remained a Chancellor ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was amazed at the late President Kibaki’s reaction when we were preparing the Charters for naming universities. To get a Charter, there were two things that we had to do. We had to name the university and its Chancellor. One day, I went to see him and told him that we had named several universities. I did not show him the name of Karatina University because we wanted to change the name. The late President Mwai Kibaki asked me what name we wanted to give that University. I replied that we wanted to call it Mwai ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: I told him that he was going to release 15 Universities and we must have at least one or two in his name. The late President Kibaki looked at me and replied that he was going to tell me what he had never told many people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to say this because we are talking about him at his exit point. He said that his family decided some time back that his name should not be put anywhere, including buildings or universities. I was so humbled. He told me not to be shocked because it was true. ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: What lesson do we derive from that? Your achievements are not marked by your name being labelled on them but they should be seen. This is how I would describe the late President Mwai Kibaki. He had many achievements that he did not have to label them in his name yet we could see them. There were 15 universities in a row covering the whole country. Every time I went to brief him about the universities that had qualified, he would ask how many were being given to Kisii, Meru and the Coast region. We had to spread them out. ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: The late President Kibaki was a humble and quiet achiever. Most people imagined that Ministers were performing yet he was the one who was performing through them. This is by doing what he did through me; getting all those Universities, a law for higher education, science and technology and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). That was amazing as it was within one year and four months. However, at the end, we were unable to issue all the Charters to all the Universities and we had to do “mass marriage”. We had to give Charters to seven Universities from ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the late President Mwai Kibaki was a man of a clear vision and a roadmap. He had different roadmaps for each sector; roads, education, natural resources and afforestation. All of them would converge at one point. I was an Assistant Minister for Environment during the days of Hon. Michuki, before I became a Minister. It was very clear on what he thought about climate change. I remember before I became an Assistant Minister, we had a caucus in Parliament on climate change where we invited African Parliamentarians to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He made an ... view
• 15 Feb 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to be like the Governor of Embu County who had two speeches to deliver and ended up reading a wrong speech for the second event. view
• 15 Feb 2022 in Senate: I thank Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve for this Special Needs Education Bill (Senate Bills No. 44 of 2021). Madam Temporary Speaker I second this Bill knowing very well that education is a right to every child in this country. This Bill is an Act of Parliament that is supposed to provide for education of learners with special education needs for the conduct of the education institutions as regards to special needs learners and for connected purposes. This is a very important Bill because according to the Constitution of Kenya, every child has a right to education. I am a member of ... view