Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I dealt with a similar Question. I was actually asked that question. I was asked how many people applied and how many were registered, but unfortunately, that was not the Question. So, I did not come prepared for it. So, I cannot give the percentages of those who applied, but I can tell you that anybody who applies for the registration of birth definitely gets registered. We actually urge them to. We actually campaign and I want to use the Floor of this House to campaign that every birth should be registered because we want to ... view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with regard to the registration of births, we have a unique problem and I want to share it with you so that you can help me. Originally, we had, like in Homa Bay County, which I am aware of, all of the births were registered in Homa Bay Hospital. Any birth that went to a clinic around the Homa Bay County went to Homa Bay District Registration Centre. That is where we have volumes of birth notifications. So, when you apply for the certificate, we have to go and check from those volumes and find out manually ... view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: has not given us. We have started with four centres, namely, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu and Nakuru. The queues we are seeing in Sheria House very soon will no longer be there. We will now be accessing that information from the computers. However, we are yet to go to as many centres as we would want because of the capital investment that is required. view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a year is not too long because budgets only happen once a year. If it does not happen in this year’s Budget, then we have to wait until it happens in another budget. Right now, we have made our proposals and we hope that they will be considered positively. Let me also mention something that we have tried to do to ease the pressure on hon. Members in each area. We are trying to appoint head teachers both in secondary and primary schools, as agents of the Registrar of Births so that the teachers can register the ... view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I could, of course, spread out the officers, one per district, but the officers have different ranks. A registrar is a person who has served in the Ministry for a long time with specific education and training. We cannot make everybody a registrar. So, it is in our interests that we only take to the districts competent officers who will do a good job for everybody. I think that is the constraint. There are officers of the calibre that can be taken to the districts that have been created. view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have already indicated that my PS has written to the PS, Ministry of Education. As I said earlier, I hope that he will take action. It is important that I say this here because wherever he is watching, he should know that we need to use the teachers because they seem to receive almost all the children, at least, in Standard One. If they can be registered from Standard One, we will not have these queues during the time for examinations much later in Standard Eight. We also involve the head teachers in secondary schools because ... view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not surrendering our responsibility of registration. We are saying that just as we are using assistant chiefs to give us information on who has given birth in the village is the same way we want to ask teachers to assist us in registering every child that joins Standard One or Form One. I think that is a responsibility for inter-governmental co-ordination, so that we can help each other to make sure that we do this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a matter of fact, it is us who requested the Ministry of Education to insist on ... view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me apologise for not having been here on time. I had something that held me and I thought my Assistant Minister was here but he was not. I am very sorry. view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Let me start by saying that I agree with the general sentiments that the issuance of identity cards should be something that is done at the grassroots and that it is a right. Let me start with the history about the issuance of identity cards. I remember that I received my first identity card, the one which used to look like a driving licence in 1974 when I was in class. It took me about ten or 15 minutes to get the identity card. I used it until the first generation identity card came. When we issued the second generation ... view
• 6 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Let me put it this way; this Motion is good. The only little thing that is a problem with it is the mechanism of doing things for the time being. When we go to the third generation IDs what will happen is this: We will capture your data where you are, your photograph, name and whatever else, and then your form will be put in computer. It will be transferred electronically to the headquarters. The ID will be produced simultaneously. In fact, just because of transporting it back to you it might take some time. However, between the time you ... view