Robert Pukose

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2601 to 2610 of 2869.

• 13 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: for a commodity that we could have gotten at a much lower price? Are we getting value for money? Is the investment that the Government undertakes worth the cash used? These are areas we need to look at. The PAC, the Office of the Auditor-General and other people involved in accounting for public expenditure need to up their game. They need to move faster, so that we can be discussing current issues. If we debate a report in this House, we should be able to interrogate matters more effectively and link the various issues that will come up with the ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this very important Bill. I stand here to support this Bill. Many Kenyans have gone through education in various places. Where I come from, I neighbour Uganda and we have had cases whereby a child who scores a C (minus) and decides to go to Form Five and Six and scores three principals proceeds to university. When the student comes back after completing university, where he was also supported by the Higher Education Loans Board and wants to be a teacher, he is told he does not qualify. This is ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: We also have the universities and vocational training colleges. When you look at the membership in this case, it is from the University Council and vocational training colleges, the Federation of Kenya Employers, Central Organizations of Trade Unions (COTU) and others. At the end of the day, we need to look for a framework that can make it appropriate for somebody with certain qualifications to be absorbed in the job market. In this county at times, when you read the newspapers, you will find that some institutions are admitting students with C (minus) after a few weeks of taking them ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: We also need to look at how we can reduce the counties from the current 47 counties to, at least, a manageable size, where we are not balkanizing our country. Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo talked about the issue of governors being in charge of police and Administration Police. I was just wondering, if you have the governor of Kericho in charge of his police and the governor of Kisumu being in charge of his police, if there is something happening between the two counties, each of them will call their police and we will have another internal war within the country. ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Look at the commissions, they are bloated. We are talking of nine commissions, with each running its budget and yet, some of those commissions could be working on similar issues. That supports the issue of creating a qualifications framework and authority. Are we creating an authority that is going to do the work that is being done by other organizations? We need to freeze some of these areas. How do we bring up issues which are being tackled by the Kenya National Examinations Council? Things that are being tackled by the universities, how do we bring them here so that, ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this very important Bill, which has come from the Senate. I want to thank the Senate for having come up with this Bill which, to me, is trying to address the areas that we think had a disconnect between the national Government and the county government. This is in provision of services. As we know, resources have been devolved through our Constitution, and this is what Kenyans were asking for. Therefore, it is upon us, as leaders of this nation, to harmonize the various development projects within our counties. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I ask our brothers, the governors, not to look at the County Development Board as an impediment to their delivery of services, but see it as enrichment to their service deliveryways. The only issue I have is at the constituency level, where I do not think it is necessary to have a Constituency Development Board. I think the CDF can cater for the constituency. What we are trying to do is to harmonize the various areas we have within our constituencies. This is to enable us to put together all the resources that we have in various counties. We have ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: We all know that Kenyans asked for devolution because they felt that services had not reached certain areas. Going back to our own constituencies---In my old constituency of Kwanza, my area of Endebess was marginalized in terms of development. There is no tarmac road, no electricity and no good schools. All those are the challenges that made Kenyans vote for the new Constitution. Therefore, we are saying that we want all the areas to receive equal opportunities in terms of development. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the outset, I want to support it and hope that amendments will be brought to the House on the title “The National Flag, Emblems The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we have seen that there has been confusion in the current devolved government. For example, in our constituencies, through the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA), a road could be awarded to a certain contractor and in the process of working on the road you get a graderfrom the county government coming to do the same road. How do you account for the double funding that will have taken place? Definitely, one person will claim that he did that road while he did very minimal work on it. We need to harmonize this, so that if this road is ... view