Prof. Prof. Olweny

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 721 to 730 of 1845.

• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will make a few comments to support the Bill. Since Independence, one can say that to some extent the best elections that we have had in this country have only been two; at Independence in 1963 and the elections that we had in 2002. The others have been terrible. Some of them were supervised by Provincial Commissioners (PCs), District Commissioners (DCs), District Officers (Dos) and the entire Provincial Administration group during Kenyatta’s time and Moi’s time. There was a lot of rigging and very poorly managed elections where people lost their lives. You can remember ... view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: We are going to use this Bill to create an independent IEBC which will help in managing our elections. If you think of the way the elections were managed in 2007, it leaves a lot to be desired. It was probably one of the most poorly managed elections in this country and maybe in Africa. Even the person who was leading the Commission could not say who won. When he was asked who won, he said: “I do not know.” What was that person, his Commissioners and secretariat doing if he could not even tell Kenyans who won the election? view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kenyans want a good system for managing its elections so that we can have peace and confidence among ourselves; that we can manage our affairs and politics. If you fail to manage elections, you fail to manage your politics. Look at what happened in Cote d’ivoire the other day. They failed to manage elections and ended up with chaos and the former President and his wife were smoked out of their building simply because they mismanaged their politics. view
• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: We need a system that is independent of the executive and cannot be manipulated even by Parliament or anybody that thinks he or she has power in this country. That is the only way we can have confidence in the way we manage our politics. We do not want a system where, like the last elections, the agreements that had been done during the Inter- Party Parliamentary Group (IPPG) were trashed and referred to as a gentlemanly agreement yet it is what led us into having a good general election in 2002. At that time the people who were in ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry provides a subsidy to all students in public day and boarding secondary schools, under the Free Day Secondary Education (FDSE) programme at annual capitation of Kshs10,625 per student, out of which, Kshs3,600 is for tuition and Kshs6,665 for operational expenses. On the other hand, the allocation of Free Primary Education (FPE) funds are based on annual capitation of Kshs1,020 per pupil, out of which Kshs650 is for tuition and Kshs370 is for recurrent expenses. Parents of students in secondary boarding schools are required to pay Kshs18,625 per annum to cater ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will not give the date, but I know these have been the guidelines for quite sometime in the Ministry. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the standardized rate is Kshs18,625. However, there are variations depending on what each school considers for maintaining the students within the schools. For a school to vary the fees, it must be allowed by the District Education Board (DEB). Usually, it is the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) and Boards of Governors (BOGs) that comes with additional levies. The PTA usually meets and decides on what additional money should be levied, so as to take care of the cost of running that school. Once they agree on it, they cannot levy until that information is discussed in the ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the schools not to go overboard in levying excessive fees on parents, the DEB is there to ensure that that does not happen. Indeed, I have been in meetings, where we have turned down requests of certain schools when they came up with unacceptable levies. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is the responsibility of parents to provide clothing for their child, whether that child is in school or not. School uniform is clothing. The Government meets the cost of tuition and gives support in form of infrastructure funding, laboratory, et cetera . Does it mean that Kenyans cannot provide clothing for their children? Uniforms are part of clothing, which is a parents’ responsibility. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view