Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1311 to 1320 of 1925.

• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Act refers to religious instruction in public schools. The Act does not refer to the dressing in public schools. view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know really what I am responding to. This is a non-issue. The hon. Members who have had such problems have been to my office. We have resolved this problem together in the respective schools. So, I do not see it as an issue at this stage. view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the avoidance of doubt, when I say it is a non-issue, it is because from a case to case, we have been able to resolve the issue of view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have always granted them that right. So, I have no specific complainants. view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the worship is from sunrise to sunset, and not necessarily up to the time the hon. Member has specified. The Seventh Day Adventist Church members need not worry, just like the Muslims and Christians need not worry. Any other persons observing any legal religious worship, they are not barred from observing their day of worship. Rest assured that anybody who goes outside this Act is in breach of the Act. If it is Maseno High, which the hon. Member mentioned, I will bring it to the attention of the principal that he is in breach of ... view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am referring to the Education Act of 1968. Mr. Chanzu is fully aware that I have appointed a taskforce and they are due to bring in their reports on aligning the Ministry of Education with the new Constitution vis-a-vis the Education Act of 1968, the Kenya National Examination Act and the Kenya view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it has been my assumption that the schools are observing the Act itself and more so, Article 32 of the new Constitution. Anybody who is operating outside this parameter is obviously out of date. If need be, I will remind them again in a fresh circular through my Permanent Secretary that this is the requirement and they need to conform to it. view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry has not paid 689 personnel including invigilators due to technical challenges faced by the Airtel Mobile Subscriber in wiring the money to the personnel. Some personnel did not provide their registered mobile phone numbers. Some invigilators provided mobile phone numbers which were not their own. Some personnel provided incomplete numbers while others failed to provide mobile numbers. view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) employed 67,448 personnel for the supervision and invigilation of the 2010 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) Examinations as follows:- There were 20,198 supervisors and 47,250 invigilators who were all teachers. Out of that number, 66,799 have been paid as follows:- Out of the 20,198 supervisors who had applied, 20,079 were paid. Out of 47,250 invigilators, 46,702 were paid. The method of payment was through the mobile phone system. You will appreciate that almost 99 per cent have been paid through an efficient system. They have received the money and ... view
• 11 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was made very clear to them that they would be paid through the normal means and one of such quick means is through the mobile telephone. To tell you how this was arrived at, if I may jog your memory; there was a time when they wanted to down their tools that they do not want to mark the scripts until they had been paid. One of the quick ways that we could have paid them was not through the banks, but through the mobile phone system. Indeed, if only 649 out of 67,000 have ... view