Prof. Prof. Olweny

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 41 to 50 of 1845.

• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the recruitment of teachers, which is now to be done by the TSC, the TSC will recruit teachers as funds become available to it. I hope that the Government will give additional funds to the TSC to recruit more teachers. The special needs schools will be given the right teachers they need to take care of special needs education. view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg the indulgence of the House to allow me up to Tuesday, next week to bring a comprehensive answer to this Question. Right now, I do not have an appropriate answer to this Question. view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to support the Bill. We have only 15 days left to register Kenyans as voters yet so many Kenyans are still being left out because of the Government’s failure to issue them with IDs. The Government is not giving ID cards to people who have been registered. People have been registered as Kenyans yet they have not received their IDs, which should be used to identify them as Kenyans. For that reason, let us allow Kenyans with provisional IDs, which are famously known as “waiting cards” to use them to register as voters and ... view
• 4 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as regards party members, I want to give an example. In my constituency of Muhoroni, we distributed 10,000 cards in June last year and in the middle of this year but when the returns came from the Registrar of Political Parties; only 2,000 people were shown to have been registered as members in the whole of Kisumu County. So, where did all the other names go to? That is another failure by the Government, which should not be used to bar Kenyans from voting. With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 28 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. It is the policy of the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) that any candidate registering for the KCSE examination should provide details of their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) so as to prove the identity of the person registering for KCSE and as such confirm the candidate registering to sit for the KCSE examination. This measure is in place to deter cases of impersonation. During the registration to sit for 2011 KCSE examination, Bumini Secondary School registered Mr. Hassan Otulwa, No.617311050 using incorrect year, 2007 KCPE examination index number 608368015 ... view
• 28 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I read out the answer, you saw where the problem lies. The problem was with the candidate and the school. If the candidate would have provided us with the necessary details, which he did not, the results would have been released. So, that was their mistake. So, he got his results once the mistake was corrected. We did not withhold the results unnecessarily. We had a good reason for doing that. view
• 28 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not have the actual date now. However, the important thing is that they have the information with regard to the availability of the results. The school had the information regarding this much earlier. view
• 27 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a)Under free primary education, each pupil is entitled to Kshs1,020 annually or Kshs1,050 which is disbursed through account one referred to as samba, is for tuition purposes, whereas Kshs470 disbursed through account two which is called the general purpose account is for recurrent expenses. The vote head for the two accounts are shown in the table which has been given to the hon. Member unless the House wants me to read it. (b)According to the Constitution of Kenya 2010, Article 237(2) (b), the mandate for employing teachers lies squarely with the ... view
• 27 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of teacher shortage is a national problem and also a problem to the Ministry. The hon. Member has said that there are eight teachers in some of his schools but in some places across the country, it is worse. This House assisted my Ministry to get more money from Treasury to hire view
• 27 Nov 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, education actually involves cost-sharing between the communities and the Government. Communities get money from the other pocket to subsidize the efforts of the Government to employ teachers. As a matter of fact, account two which is general purpose account, has some money meant for employment of support staff but some schools use it to employ teachers. view