Dr. Patrick Mweu Musimba

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for according me this opportunity to contribute. I have points about the Sessional Paper on taking a study about where we have come from with our education systems since Independence. We started with the 7-6-3 System, which acknowledged that there is failure when we do not have technical schools. We used to have technical colleges which are now being re-addressed through the re-introduction of technical training institutes. What is important in an education arena is to inculcate into our students and citizenship skills, knowledge and attitudes towards education. It is a life-long journey. It ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: When it comes to training facilities, and, indeed, this is well covered in the Sessional Paper, there are gaps which were ably noted. They are mainly ICT gaps. They are upcoming knowledge gaps in the 21st Century which need to be addressed. I worry about our competitiveness in the global realm. We have a mismatch between our system and what is being internationally used. The British still have the common entrance exams and the A Level system. When it comes to matching, especially when trying to internationalise our students when they go abroad, there is a very big mismatch in ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: What needs to come out in the Sessional Paper is that our top students have to be bench marked to carry out exams which are undertaken in other countries. For instance, if we have common entrance exams administered to 13 year old students, then we should have the same Cambridge exams being administered to a certain quartile of our nation to know that we have been benchmarked properly. At secondary level, the same has to happen, so that we know that we have tuition for people who are going to international universities to compete. The University of Nairobi is ranked ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 24 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to the Statement being sought by the Member for Mvita. We acknowledge… view
• 24 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I seek further clarification. National roads have always been part of public transport infrastructure. We have all along had the trucking business. Now that we have the SGR, many towns along the way are going to be affected. That includes somewhere in my constituency. What we seek to know is whether there is a policy for investing in bogies which can be placed along the SGR to supplement the incomes for the people who have invested in the tracking business. So, I would want that further clarification as well. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank you for your considered ruling on the issue. My concern is about public participation in light of a recent ruling which was given that considerations that we make during the Committee of the whole House are not subjected to public participation. In this case, more specifically when we are dealing with this Finance Bill, you find that as it emanates from the Executive, the Executive arm of the Government has already subjected the Bill to public participation during the budget-making exercise before being published, which informs the amendments they bring forth. However, at the ... view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: This is in light of that ruling which was given in the courts challenging the issues we brought to the Committee of the whole House, which were not subject to public participation. As such, they were not relevant in the material Bill which was assented to. That is the primary concern. Should we say that all Members bring all their proposed amendments after the Second Reading of the Bill and then we subject it to public participation instead of considering it in the Committee of the whole House, Hon. Speaker? view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to the Public Finance Management Bill. One, it is timely and, two, it is reflective of a changing landscape in terms of our devolution exercise in the nation and the passage of the 2010 Constitution. What is very important is the fact that the inculcation of Chapter 4 of our Bill of Rights has come under threat under this impasse that has been posed during this Division of Revenue Bill. As such, it caused a lot of anxiety around the country as to the measures we are taking in ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: When our traditional partners, the Bretton Woods Institutions, around the world are also facing the same economic pressures that we are in currently, then it means reaching out to that would require cushioning even our Kenya shillings in terms of imports coming into the country. How do you address this to our populace when strategic services and things like medicine such as antiretroviral drugs for people suffering from HIV and AIDS are missing in our hospitals? We have immunisation programmes which have been greatly affected because our traditional partners are not living up to the end of the deal. You ... view