Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 831 to 840 of 973.

• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (a)Yes, it is true that the number of street children has increased within market centres in Kenya at an alarming rate. The Ministry has, therefore, formed the Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund, to address this phenomenon. The Fund is chaired and largely composed of members of the private sector. The Trust Fund, in collaboration with the local authorities, is addressing the issue of the street children through re-integrative and rehabilitative processes in line with the Government policy. To start with, the Ministry has opened centres in Nairobi, Mombasa and Nyeri and other local authorities have been directed to initiate the ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: (b) The Ministry has initiated drop-in centres, which you may call rehabilitation centres in various local authorities as a stop-gap measure. Those centres provide essential services to street children such as counseling, screening, detoxification, temporary shelter, medical attention, feeding programs and access to education within primary schools under the local authorities. Key to success is access to free or compulsory primary education for school-age street children. That is being undertaken in Nairobi where over 500 children are accessing education at Morrison Primary School at the Bahati Area. The main attraction is the sustainable feeding program, provision of school uniforms, learning ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, more drop-in centres have been opened under the Municipal Council of Mombasa in collaboration with UNICEF. Other centres are in the process of being set up in Malindi, Kisumu, Eldoret and Garissa under the same initiatives. More local authorities are taking up the responsibility of ensuring that street view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have said, we have actually communicated to all local authorities to take up those initiatives. It is a new initiative and the towns that have started are not the only ones that will be considered. We do hope that Meru will take it up as a Municipal Council. I will definitely raise this issue with the Street Families Rehabilitation Fund so that they can discuss with the Meru Municipal Council and look into ways of supporting it in establishing a drop-in centre. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have to start somewhere. That requires a very comprehensive answer. But I would like say that if we can start by educating those street children and, indeed, even giving them skills so that they can fend for themselves, it is a more sustainable way, in the long run, to enable them to live a decent life. Ultimately, the problem of street children is also a matter of high levels of poverty in the country. So, it has to be a multi-faceted approach to providing a long term solution to the street children. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is very unfortunate. If there are some unscrupulous NGOs who are actually using the children as a commercial venture, if they can be identified, I believe we can collaborate and make sure that such organizations are reported to the National NGO Council for deregistration. That is one way that such institutions, where we have evidence, can be dealt with. But, at the moment, I want to state that, on the part of our Ministry, this year, we have been allocated Kshs19 million by the Treasury for that Fund. That money will be used to ... view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we had a Cabinet Session today. I do not know why some Ministers have not arrived here because personally I have arrived. Definitely, I take into account the fact that there is a serious breach here. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will endeavour to ensure that in future Cabinet meetings, and when Parliament is in Session, the meetings end much earlier. This request will be put across to the Chairman of the Cabinet so that the Cabinet meetings can end much earlier to allow Ministers to be available in the House on time to answer Questions. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Trans Mara County Council was unable to conduct its business for one year because of the numerous court injunctions. However, I assure this House that the courts have canvassed the issues in dispute and have cleared the Council to transact business. It should be noted that elections of office bearers in all civic authorities have been set for the period between 30th June, 2009 and 15th August, 2009. This will present a window to this Council to put in place office office-bearers who will transact business for the remaining period. With regard ... view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I stated, the agreement was between the Mara Conservancy and the Trans Mara County Council. They signed the contract. We have told the county council that if they feel there is a breach by the Mara Conservancy of the agreement that they signed – the Ministry was not party to that agreement – they have provisions within their agreement, which they can use, so that they terminate that agreement. That is the position we have advised Trans Mara County Council to adopt. view