Hon. Richard Nyagaka Tongi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: As I wind up, there are teachers who have retired after having served the country well. They have not been paid their pension money. It is a pain to somebody who has sacrificed and given much to the country, yet when they get to their retirement age, they are taken round and round for a simple reason of not having their paperwork in order. We must have a law compelling the Pension Department to ensure that within two years of your retirement, you are paid your money. view
• 1 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: With that, I support. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and my colleague and friend, the Chairman of Departmental Committee on Education and Research, I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this debate. view
• 26 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: From the outset, I am supporting the Sessional Paper because it addresses concerns which have been affecting Kenyans. Exams are extremely important, but they must be managed in a way that it does not disadvantage people who are gifted differently. Chemistry, for example, is a good course to do, but what has chemistry got to do with a student who is a musician? Some of the subjects we study in school are sometimes very important, but we should not make them benchmarks for defining what your life is going to be like. There are people who have succeeded tremendously in ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: Report of the Committee on the Capstone Course on National Security and Strategy conducted by the National Defence College and Center for Parliamentary Studies and Training in the National Defence College, Karen, Nairobi on 26th to 30th August 2019. Thank you. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Bill which addresses humanity. All of us are a function of our mothers and the care they gave us. That foundation given to us by our parents has either made us good or bad people we are in society. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Experience teaches that when parents bond with children at a formative age the impact is permanent. Even the good Bible says that train a child in good way and they will never depart from that good way even as they grow old. Sometimes they might drift and miss the rail, but finally they get back to the rail because of the foundation they were given at theirformative stage. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I appreciate Hon. Martha and the thinking behind this Bill because it is a clear testimony of the kind of a personshe is: a person who cares, a person who loves, a person who cares for the neighbour and the wellbeing of every other person in society. We cannot keep on whining and complaining by saying that the society has failed and that the morals of society have decayed completely yet we do not do anything about it. Hon. Martha Wangari has decided to take it upon herself, in a small way, to make the world a better place to ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: In developed economies, one of the biggest contribution or assent they have over us is that their morals and values are different and sometimes are of higher quality like simple things like saying, excuse me or simple things like queueing to give somebody a chance to go ahead of you to be served. It is the same way we were raised and instructed that if we saw a pregnant lady and she asked of anything from us, we had a duty to go out of our way and provide what she had asked for. Our parents had a way of ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Lately, the internet and social media have replaced the role of the parents. It is unfortunate that sometimes when you go home you get both parents and children glued to their phones catching up with their friends at the expense of what should be time to lay the foundation of a family by educating and sharing experiences of the day. Instead children are lonely and learnfrom the unknown or from strangers. How did we allow ourselves to get to this point? In a small way, I appreciate that this Bill will somewhat help us to get back to the rail ... view