Nimrod Mbithuka Mbai

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution to this Bill. It is this House which makes laws. Our Constitution provides for the two-thirds gender rule. The only place that the people of Kenya can get justice on the two-thirds gender rule is through the amendment of the Constitution. We have an opportunity to amend that Constitution. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Putting all the conditions on the table for us to attain the two-thirds gender rule in this House, we have several options. One of the options is what we are debating—having several extra nominated sisters, mothers and women in this House. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The other option is to reduce the number of men in the House so that the number of women can be balanced with a smaller number of men. I know most of us would not want to go by that option of reducing the number of men. That would mean reducing the number of nominated men, including the disabled and youth. This is not an option. The other option would be putting in some special constituencies only for women. For example, we can say Kitui East where I represent will only have a woman elected. This will not be constitutional. ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: number of men in this House is to bring extra women. That will be in agreement with what our Lord showed us in the book of Genesis when he made man. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Just the other day we were discussing about the medical cover for us and for our families. I was shocked to see a Member who was suggesting to have several wives put under his medical cover. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the red button. Given an option, if in the membership of this House there were alternates, let us say if I was not in I would be given an opportunity to get another Kenyan to sit in for me, all the men in this House would opt for a woman to sit in for them. If I were given an opportunity on the day that I would not be in Parliament for somebody in my constituency to come and represent me, a majority of the Members would choose women. That means having more ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Motion by Hon. Jaguar on introducing apprentice testing and certification in technical training centres in constituencies. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Our education system, since the colonial period, has been informed by our colonial masters where paper work and what you have crammed and have been tested on paper is what earns you a certificate. It is high time we moved from that and be homegrown in appreciating what we are doing. Technical institutions like the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA), TVET and the Kenya National Examinations Council should introduce formal examinations for practical technology. We have professors in universities, like the one of medicine, who cannot The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: make an aspirin and yet they know the theory. They have the papers with very rich curriculum vitae but, technically, they cannot solve a problem. Guys who solve the problems have no certificates. So, they end up being misused in the labour market especially in rural areas, suburbs and informal settlements in urban areas where the poor live. Most young men who have not gone to school have not attained formal education because of their poor backgrounds. They did not have school fees. They performed poorly in primary school and could not move to secondary school because they never attended ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: It is high time technical training centres are brought on board for tests. Even Members of Parliament do not look for a plumber to explain theory on water and pressure, but rather look for somebody who can do plumbing. Most of the people who can join pipes to move water from one corner to another in a house have no papers. Most masons in our country have no papers because they never managed to go past primary education. view