Owen Yaa Baya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Today, people with big chunks of land are subdividing it without giving 10 per cent for amenities. Physical planners and adjudicators go ahead and sub-divide land without looking at social amenities which include schools. After some time, you find that a place requires a school, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: but the physical plan did not set aside any land for the development of schools, shopping centres, social halls, mosques and churches. So, before we start looking at what the Ministry of Education should do, we need to engage the Ministry of Lands to understand issues about planning. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The other important aspect that we need to look at is what county governments who are in charge of communal land are doing in terms of reserving land for school development. Today, there is a lot of land subdivisions, adjudication and settlement schemes that are going on. The mandate of county governments is surveying and planning. We need to see how we can dovetail that such that school properties are made available during the subdivision and surveys. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We would also be interested to look at the cost and pricing of land in this country. Today, if my friend Hon. T. J. Kajwang’ wants to start a school in his constituency, he would pay billions of shillings to acquire probably five acres of land. Why? The cost of land in this country has gone through the roof top. We need to bring the Land Value Index Bill as soon as possible to the House so that it is passed to regulate the cost of land especially when it comes to acquiring land for institutions. Without doing that, in ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: New towns are coming up licensed and developed by county governments. But if you check the population against the number of public utilities being put up, they are not in congruency completely. They forget that you need a secondary school, primary school and a kindergarten. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: As we urge for the formulation of policies, we need to look at it from a larger perspective and picture such that the Ministry of Lands and the Ministry of Education should sit together and look at the whole aspect from a holistic perspective so that as the Government sets aside funds it knows how much land is required in the next 10 years for the development of schools. It should also know how much money should be factored in the budget so that we can have a holistic picture in the development of the policy. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker…. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I am looking at the “D1211” and “D1204” in the Order Paper where the chairman referred us to but I cannot find those vote heads. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I would like to see where his “D1204” and “D1211” are in the Order Paper he referred us to. view