Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: really belongs to that Ministry. The reason for this is that matters of housing are handled by the Ministry of Housing. We have established that these houses were constructed with funds from the Russian Government for use by senior staff at the New Nyanza General Hospital. The intention was to have them housed in a nearby area where they could be reached at short notice. Since the management of all Government of Kenya houses falls within the docket of the Ministry of Housing, we have requested the PS to take up this matter and let the Ministry answer the Question ... view
• 12 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Unfortunately, Mr. Olago Aluoch, Member of Parliament for Kisumu West is not in charge of ordering Government business. He should politely accept the answer from the Minister for Medical Services. view
• 12 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is history which informs events of the moment. I could not divorce history from the action to be taken now which shall be taken by the Ministry of Housing. view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion very strongly. But I would like to comment briefly on Mr. Githae's contribution. First, it would be counter-productive to our education system to introduce more exams into the system. Exams should be as few as possible in any education system in this day and view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: 4864 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES February 11, 2009 view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: age. For example, by proposing that we introduce an exam in Standard IV--- I sat that exam in 1957 when I was about 10 years old. In those days, you could sit an exam with people who had beards and were shaving them. If those people graduated in Standard IV, they could go and drive vehicles. Today, the pupils in Standard IV are nine or ten years old. I do not understand how a nine or ten year old child could graduate from primary schools so that they could go and drive vehicles. So, exams in Standard IV at this ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: At the same time, if you were to introduce another exam in Form II today, we have a very hybrid system of education. Some are in the local system while others are in the British or American system. That is complicated enough. Let us not complicate our education system further by introducing more exams, thinking that we are going to graduate pupils to become drivers. I think Mr. Githae should go back to school and learn a little bit about human resources development. What we need to do is to invest heavily into our human resources development wherever anybody is ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we go into e-learning and introduce televisions and radios in those areas, people will learn because Kenyans are basically very intelligent people. Anybody who is educated in Kenya and goes abroad to work does a very good job. That is why all those countries are poaching our nurses and doctors because Kenyans have proved to be very intelligent and very good workers. If we introduce e-learning in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), so that we do not need physical structures like rooms and so on, you will be surprised how quickly those girls and ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what has happened in our country is: If you go to a place like Turkana and you are expected to deliver the same kind of services that you deliver in Kisumu Rural, you cannot because Kisumu Rural is different. Kisumu Rural has a lot of water and people live together. If you built a dispensary there, it will serve a big population. If you go to Turkana South where my friend, Mr. Nanok comes from, people live very far away from each other. It is a dry area. So, we should establish institutions and processes ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: In those areas, what is most important is communication. Communication is so poor in ASALs that it makes life very difficult. We always think of communication in terms of roads. In this day and age, in such areas, railway transportation will be much better. It will be cheaper to construct, much more responsive to the weather and it will carry the kind of commodities available in those areas. view