Eng Mohammed Maalim Mahamud

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me, first of all, congratulate the Minister and his team for a job well done. They are doing a commendable job despite many difficulties. Let me particularly commend the Minister for taking off and going to North Eastern Province for a whole week to see for himself what the situation is like in that province. I am told he is the only Minister after Taita Towett, who has visited that province since our Independence. Congratulations! view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, education is key to the future of our nation. Education should be adequately funded. We cannot say it is expensive because if you think it is expensive, let us try ignorance to see how expensive it is. Access to education for our children is important. However, access without proper infrastructure and quality of education, is also meaningless. After 2003, when the Free Primary Education was started, the level of enrolment has increased in many parts of the country, especially in North Eastern Province. But if we have no teachers or infrastructure, then we cannot see ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must take recruitment of teachers very seriously because without them, children alone cannot learn and classrooms alone cannot teach them. We thank the Ministry for the initiative to recruit more teachers. But I would like to pose the question that we need to be planning as we have these teachers on contracts. We must plan what to do after the period of three years. We may have pupils that we cannot absorp. The way it looks now, we may be told we are looking for low cost teachers. Because we cannot afford them, so ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, staffing of education officers is a serious matter. Many education offices are not properly staffed. Maybe, the District Education Officer (DEO) is alone. He has no deputy. We do not have people from the inspectorate or other departments of the Ministry. You cannot supervise teaching in schools if you are not properly staffed. So, it is important that as we look at staffing in classrooms, we look at the staffing levels at the DEOs office. We have accepted the statistics that we need one teacher for 45 students as the norm. I think, in some ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister talked about upgrading national schools. These schools are not all over the country. Now that we are going to a devolved system when we implement the new Constitution, we need to strengthen these schools in various regions of this country. Let us pick one in every region, so that we can make it a national school. These schools were there at Independence. It is important that other parts of the country also benefit from those schools. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: The stimulus package that you have put in is also a very good idea. I think it must be something continuous because it should not be a one time thing. If you have made a school a centre of excellence now, we need to continue that. I think whereas you have requested from the Treasury to complete those projects, we need those projects to be continuous. Bursary allocation to the secondary schools is a nightmare. We are not getting that money. There is something wrong in the way we fund our secondary schools. I think the subsidy for tuition is ... view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to again thank the Minister for the attention they are giving to ASAL areas and also for his recent visit to the North Eastern Province, and also for the launch of the policy on nomadic education. We would like them to hurry that up and put the Commission in place so that it can address all the serious issues that are facing North Eastern Province. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: The Question refers to two companies namely Kenya Power and Generation Company and the Geothermal Development Company. I beg to inform the House that there is no company known as Kenya Power and Generation Company. We have the Kenya Electricity Generation Company and the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) which is referred to in the Question. view