Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to apologize several times; first because I was away when I was supposed to answer this Question. Secondly, I came into the House before the sanction was removed. Now I am glad to report that I can respond after the Chair lifted the burden from my shoulders. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that my Ministry has not established a births and deaths registration office in Emuhaya District, and the application forms are issued free of charge. (b) The average number of days for processing births and death registration certificates should be about three days. However, a recent upsurge in the volume of applicants occasioned by a mandatory requirement for birth certificates for national examinations has led to some intermittent delays. (c) The Ministry shall establish a birth and deaths registration office in Emuhaya when we get authority to hire additional ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I am shocked that these forms are being sold. They are supposed to be free. I may just share with you the fees for registration, so that we can guide our people accordingly. If you are registering a birth without any amendment to names, it is only Kshs50. If you are registering a death with some amendments, then it is Kshs130. But if you are registering a late registration, which means applying for registration after the first six months, you pay Kshs150. I hear that in some places, it is a little more expensive than ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the answer was meant for birth certificates. We replace them for the same fees. For ID cards, we are just about to publish – I think I have signed the publication for the Kenya Gazette – a notice for replacement of an ID. In order that people do not lose their IDs too often - we want people to be more protective of their IDs - it will be very expensive to replace them. We have said that to replace an ID card now, you will need to pay Kshs300. This is just to discourage people ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, immediately we roll out to all schools so that the schools become the centers for registration, we will have solved a big problem. The head teacher will register all students. We will give the head teacher the forms and our job will merely to check that he has done them properly. The Assistant Chief will have to confirm the parents of the child who has been registered. The headmaster will also have to confirm that the pupil belongs to that school. Our officers will then collect the forms and produce IDs. The only limitation we will ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the registrars will still remain as registrars. However, the chiefs, the principals and the head teachers will be agents. When you are an agent, then it is the principal who is responsible for what you do. So, the registrars will still remain registrars. However, we will appoint the head teachers with the help of the Ministry of Education. We will also seek the help of the Provincial Administration so that we can appoint the assistant chiefs to be our agents. The assistant chiefs have been helping us, anyway. They are our primary source of our information. ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree that that is a grey area. We are trying to sort it out. In fact, I might need a lot of assistance from our Members. The grey area is this: If they are appointed as registrars, then my officers will have no job to do. The headmaster will be the registrar or even the assistant chief. However, if we appoint them to help the Registrar, then the registrar will be primarily responsible and I will supervise him. So, we need a chain in which my office can discipline and supervise the registrar. However, the ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to plead and direct my officers that they have no business fixing ages for children. The person who knows when a child was born is the assistant chief and the teacher, mostly because they communicate with their mothers. But to just put an arbitrary age can cause a problem because, eventually, when they grow up, they will want to take travel documents. I have such problems in my office. Those people have a problem with the age that was placed on them arbitrary. Therefore, I would like to urge my officers that the primary ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very expensive right. It costs Kshs1,000 to produce one identity card. The third generation identity cards will cost Kshs3,000 to produce one. It is a very precious document and we want you to keep your identity card very safely. However, if you lose it, and we ask you to pay only a fraction of what it is worth to discourage you from losing it, I do not think that is arbitrary. This is not about poverty. It is about taking care of your documents. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: As a matter of fact, I have already said that the forms will be distributed to the Emuhaya Office. If you do not have an officer there, we will ask the DC to have the forms. We want the forms to be as widespread as possible so that there is no need of selling them. The only problem we have is the budgetary allocation for forms per year. That is why we cannot produce too many. I will urge my officers to produce more forms so that they do not become a currency. That is because they are becoming a ... view