Robinson Njeru Githae

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• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we just look at paper qualifications, we are going to have drunkards who will be chiefs. You cannot have chiefs who are drunkards. We are now having even chiefs who are graduates, but are they development conscious? If we just look at paper qualifications, we will have a highly educated person who is a drunkard and does not even have a family or maintain one. So, we need to be realistic. There is no point of having qualifications which are not suitable for the job. view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: My appeal to the Minister is that for special categories of staff, let us have special view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: 4862 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES February 11, 2009 view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: qualifications. Do not just look at paper qualifications. Why do we require typists to have 80 words per minute? If you can type even with one finger, you are qualified to be a chief's typist. How many letters are written at the chief's office in a day? They are probably one or two. When you insist on 140 words per minute, where will you get them? Leave those requirements to Nairobi. In Nairobi if you ask for even 200 words per minute, you will get them. Likewise, if you insist on computer literacy somewhere in Mandera, Wajir, Lokichoggio, it is ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I remember an incident in 2007, when we were with the President in Wajir. After the President opened Wajir Airport, we had lunch. Then, a mwanachi there asked: "When are you going to Kenya?" I was surprised to realise that to the people of Mandera, Wajir and other areas, when you are coming to Nairobi, you are coming to Kenya. They do not feel that they are part of Kenya. We must make sure that they feel part of Kenya. We must take drastic action to have affirmative action. If we do this, we will ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to say that the only places where there were no post-election chaos, were in ASALs. Even where there was cosmopolitan population, like Isiolo and other places, there were no post-election chaos. No house was burnt in ASALs. No person was killed in ASALs. We should go there and find out why that did not happen. That is the biggest lesson we can learn. If we can ask them how they managed when we had these chaos, we can achieve what even the Waki Report cannot achieve. view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: As I said, to me, these qualifications are too high. In fact, I will request even the Minister for Education to copy what the colonialists were doing. We used to have examinations at Class Four. We must introduce those examinations. I think they were referred to as "common entrance." Most of the top civil servants and industrialists reached Standard Four and went on to become very successful. Let us re-introduce those examinations. view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, then, we used to have KAPE at Standard Seven or Eight. That one is still there. But there was another exam at Form Two. We must re-introduce that exam at Form Two. If we did this, then it would be very easy to reduce the qualification for drivers in ASALs. I am not asking for economists to be Standard Four leavers. I am just talking of, basically, manual jobs, including chiefs, assistant chiefs, drivers and clerks. view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: These qualifications, in my view are already too high. Let us reduce them and take cognisance of the particular circumstances of the area, so that this country can be united, become one and move together. If we do that, we will not have sections saying that these people are being favoured or there is more development in this and that area. It is important that we all move together. That is when we get a country. But if we have few sections of the population who feel that they are not part and parcel of the country, then you have ... view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: So, because I want to give other hon. Members an opportunity to discuss this very important Motion, I would like to say that I fully support it. In fact, it should be implemented. It does not require money to be implemented. It does not even require an Act of Parliament for it to be enacted. All it requires is a pen from the Minister, and I am sure he has one. I have seen him with an expensive one. The Minister should just indicate that "these regulations will not apply in ASALs." view