Prof. Prof. Olweny

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 471 to 480 of 1845.

• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the answer has been given to Parliament. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are 174 trained and 48 untrained Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers in Marsabit County, while Isiolo has 286 trained and 111 untrained ECD teachers. Those hired in the ECD centres attached to the public primary schools are paid by the parents and the local community, while those in privately- owned centres are paid by their employers. I also have a list of the staffing positions which is attached to the answer which has been given to Parliament and also to the Member of Parliament. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministerial Statement will be delivered next week on Wednesday afternoon. As regards the teacher who has sent away his students, give me the name of that school and then we shall do the needful. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I simply asked for the name of the school, so that I can handle the matter. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will look into it and give a way forward to those schools. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I, first, apologize for coming late. However, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry has allocated a total of Kshs2,490,600 for development through the School Infrastructure Improvement Programme; Kshs1,501,236 for Free Primary Education and Kshs184,260 for support to most vulnerable children and early childhood development to Mweiga Primary School. (b) The school did not have a clear development plan and the specific projects earmarked for the implementation. The infrastructure funds were, therefore, used arbitrarily and without following the laid down procedures and guidelines. The details and status of all projects undertaken by the school ... view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue is very challenging to the Ministry since the head teacher who was running the school has since retired. But we are following up the issues with the officers who cleared them at retirement while they had not accounted for the Government money properly. We shall look into ways of having the money recovered. The Ministry is following up the issue as I have indicated there. It is a fairly challenging task, but something will be done. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the case programme of the Ministry of Education some districts were selected for the regular infrastructure funding. The district in which this school is one of those earmarked districts to benefit from this kitty. Some committee members were trained on how to come up with development plans and also how to use infrastructure funds if they received them. They were well trained, but unfortunately, when they gave the Ministry their requisition, they received the money, but the money was not used as such. This school fell in those districts which had been selected by ... view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has not stopped disbursement of the infrastructure funds programme for schools. However, we give the infrastructure money when funds are availed to us. In the last financial year, the money which was supposed to be used for infrastructure funds was passed in this Parliament through Supplementary Budget for alleviation of famine and drought in other parts of the county that were affected. So, we did not have money to give out to schools for infrastructure support. view