Richard Onyonka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The hon. Member wanted to know whether currently we do have Education Attachés serving in our missions abroad and the answer to that is no. Currently, the Kenya Government and especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have any Education Attachés serving in the missions abroad. view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: (b) Since we do not have Education Attachés anymore part “b” becomes not useful. view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: (c) Since parts “a” and “b” do not exist, I cannot answer part “c”. view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in 1990 the public sector reforms were recommended throughout the Government. It begun in earnest in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007 when an inter-ministerial task force was established to conduct an audit of the Ministry’s structures and operations. As a result of that, recommendations were made by this task force and they proposed that staffing needed to be done within the missions in a rationalized manner. The issue that was raised was that the officers who were going to work in embassies abroad would become multi-skilled and multi-tasked to ensure that this exercise would be ... view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the question that the hon. Member has asked is good. There have been issues which have been raised as pertaining to whether the embassies are serving the public well because of the rationalization which was done. Our budget was not able to accommodate us hiring more Education Attachés. As a result of that we are actually stuck in that position. For example, the Committee on Education, Research and Technology can make a recommendation and give proposals so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can change that policy. If this House would give the necessary funding, the Ministry ... view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the report does exist and we shall present it to the House as soon as possible. view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware that the Committee has been making recommendations and it means well. Our position is that if the Committee can come and we sit down together, we will come up with an amicable position on this matter. It is very important because many Kenyan students are now going out of the country and they need attention but I believe that we can look for a middle ground to make sure that this issue is solved amicably. view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the truth is that the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology Education has the responsibility of hiring and policy formulation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I am going to repeat myself; I think the House Committee should come up with proposals which would be acceptable to both parties and all the inter-ministerial committees that would sit and deliberate on this matter so that we can agree to amicably sort out these issues. The truth is that when these Education Attachés go out of Kenya and to our embassies they are harboured ... view
• 6 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Lastly, the hon. Member had sought to have the answer. I have it here and I will present it to him. view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Motion be amended by inserting the following words after the figure 2012, “subject to insertion of the following recommendation on page 12 of the Corrigendum, in respect of Kitutu Chache South Constituency – Kisii County”. That the IEBC creates a new ward to be named Daraja Mbili Ward, comprising of Nubia, Daraja Mbili, Kiamwasi and Nyabururu sub-locations in view of their vastness and population of 50,363 therein; view