Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill by Sen. Joyce Korir. May I begin by congratulating Sen. Joyce Korir for a well-articulated Bill whose time has come. This Bill is very important because our children have lost their reading culture to the extent that students go to university, but their language is completely discouraging. They do not seem to have the proper grammar that is required of them and the proper way of expressing things. A library will give them an opportunity to read books, which have been well articulated. That will ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: reading a storybook the way we read from books because of the distractions that come with using telephones like social media and all sorts of things that interrupt. Therefore, having a library is something very important. As I support this Bill, I want to make a few comments and additions that I wish the Senator can add as we congratulate her. One is that one of the objects of this Bill is to establish libraries in each county. There is a need to encourage libraries to be situated in every ward. I want to persuade her to re-word there so ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to refer Sen. Kinyua to Clause 3(d) which seeks to ensure preservation of cultural heritage of the counties for future generations. Yesterday we debated about having our museums at that level at the same time. Museums will gather information that already exists. Therefore, it is important to have the interlock. I liked the way Sen. Korir brought in the same issue of preservation of culture, not only in terms of preservation of what is there. That is why I proposed that we should move from the aspect of “preserve” to “develop” because a library ... view
• 12 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill. I congratulate Sen. Haji for coming up with a wonderful piece of legislation to take care of our forestation programmes. From the outset, I would like to mention that promotion of afforestation and reforestation in arid and semi-arid areas has been very low. This law is deliberate in bringing afforestation. I congratulate our colleague because 80 per cent of Kenya is Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL). It is only 20 per cent of the country that has enough moisture to plant crops. Unfortunately, we are losing ... view
• 12 Feb 2025 in Senate: call them, we need to have environmental and tree planting clubs in primary schools and secondary schools. Not to mention that with a Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) coming, it is very important that we also have a course on afforestation, conservation and climate change so that it becomes part of us and part of what we are doing. On tree planting, we need to go back to make ourselves very sensitive, make our children very sensitive to environmental behaviour. One other thing that used to be in those olden days was the Chiefs Act. The Chiefs Act was used to ... view
• 11 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I stand to support the list of Members that have been proposed for the SBC. These are Senators who are seasoned and have leadership qualities. We believe that the House will move very smoothly in the coming Session. I agree with Sen. Mungatana that a lot was done in the retreat. We need to pay attention to some of the decisions and strong suggestions that came up. The Auditor General, our wonderful lady, was present and gave us a lot of assurance that our CPISFC and CPAC are going ... view
• 11 Feb 2025 in Senate: dire. Our governors cannot be giving out bursaries because people are needy, while the ECDE programme is failing. The village polytechnics are dilapidated. I have used the two examples of the Motion from the Senator for Kiambu County and my own that required urgent attention. Therefore, I would encourage the next SBC to look at Bills and Motions as they come in and select those they think this House can have an impact on. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I strongly support this team of seven Members. Thank you. view
• 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