Owen Yaa Baya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: The education sector in the country suffers from a myriad of issues. The problems we are experiencing now of students burning schools and cases of indiscipline are a microcosm of the real problems in the sector. The education sector, as it is right now, needs fundamental changes. We have posted principals to manage boarding schools and they have never been in boarding schools and have never been trained to understand how boarding schools are managed. Therefore, when you put such a principal in such a school, it becomes a bigger problem because he is not able to manage such a ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: We have turned our boarding schools into small prisons where we want wall fences and high gates. We do not want anybody to visit the children. Even when a child has issues that he must talk to a parent, he has to wait for a parents’ day or an open day that comes after one month. When such a child experiences this, he slides into indiscipline as an expression of the frustration that he goes through while he is in school. The schools think that the best way is to guard the school and confine the kids more and make ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: term. It frustrates the child and, therefore, the child finds a way of expressing himself by doing something everybody will notice. view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: So, colleagues, we need to ask the Ministry of Education to sit down and look at the whole sector. We should not only reform the curriculum, but we should also reform the way schools are managed. We should also have a training programme for every principal who is going to manage a secondary school. They must have a certificate that allows them to manage not only a secondary school, but also a boarding school. That way, we will cut off these problems. Many countries have gone through this phase of life we are experiencing as a country. We have boarding ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: So, I support the Motion, but call for an urgent national conference to discuss the management of secondary schools, especially boarding schools in the county. Thank you. view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, aware that agriculture is the main stay of the Kenyan economy, contributing to food security and employment of rural households; further aware that cashew nuts are mainly grown in the Coast region of Kenya, producing about 10,000 metric tonnes of the nuts valued at Kshs264.9 million; recognising that Kenya has a potential to produce more than 63,000 metric tonnes valued at over Kshs1 billion; noting that the sub-sector has the potential to create many employment opportunities through value addition and fetch the Exchequer millions of shillings ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: take their kids to school without asking for bursary or anything. They could afford services without asking anybody for a cent. They built very many secondary and primary schools because cashew nuts earned them money and this led to the development of the region. Today, the people of Kilifi have been made to beg for everything. For someone to take his children to school in that county, he must be given a bursary or something. This is the case and yet he has a 12-acre farm that can support him if he grew cashew nuts. Today, a person in Kilifi ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: middlemen. Our cashew nut crops are also being attacked by diseases but the Ministry of Agriculture has been very complacent. This is because it has not taken interest to come up with measures to eliminate the diseases. On lack of farming inputs, today, some counties have come together with a programme of selling one seedling of cashew nut at Kshs50. The poor farmers of Kilifi and Coast region cannot afford Kshs50 to buy one seedling. The Government has potential, just like it does for coffee, tea and other crops in this country, to ensure that there are resources to purchase ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to, with hesitance, oppose this Motion. Recruitment of members into the disciplined forces is not balanced. If you look at what the NYS and her membership is today, unless the Mover really gives us statistics that show proper regional balancing where each region is well represented in the NYS, we would not want to adopt that kind of method. As it were, it is skewed negatively towards certain regions. Because of that, you will realise that this Motion can be used as a way to corrupt the disciplined forces through the NYS. ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: What the NYS needs to do is to restructure. We have a very successful NYS in Tanzania called Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa (JKT), which has a lot of transitions within it. Those people continue to be within that discipline force equivalent to our NYS up to retirement. The NYS needs to be restructured and changed so that the purpose for which those people are recruited is not just for them to be trained and they leave, but to be trained and employed within NYS until retirement. I urge the Mover of this Motion to look at the NYS Act and ... view