Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1371 to 1380 of 1925.

• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: The recruitment exercise was an enormous task involving over 300,000 applicants who, painstakingly, were shortlisted to 12,000 candidates. Having survived the screening process, any action to terminate their services will generate negative repercussions, which will dent the image of the Government. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Finally, as I stated on 11th August, 2010, I want to assure the House that in future, the Ministry will decentralise the recruitment exercise by implementing the Ministry of Public Service Circular on district-based recruitment policy to address the challenges raised by the hon. Member. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you for your attention. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will start with the clarification sought by ho. Ekwe Ethuro. I would like to assure him that I have no intention whatsoever of taking any position of the Turkana people who are employed in the Ministry. The Minister does not take part in the employment exercise. Let him take comfort in that assurance. If you followed my argument in the Ministerial Statement carefully--- view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Ethuro did not listen to my answer. Out of the Ministerial Statement that I issued, he should have had an answer. I said that those candidates whose appointments are not questionable, numbering 1,793 plus another group, together totalling to 2,093, whose recruitment was processed correctly, and who were employed but have not received their personal numbers, will receive their personal numbers within this week. It took a meeting between my Ministry and the Ministry of State for Public Service, and the two Permanent Secretaries, to resolve the issue of those who were recruited but have ... view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Pesa, it would be in your interest to let me handle the problem of the 837. The bottom line is how we eventually deal with them. If you so push I will table it, but I do not think it will be in the interests of those candidates at the stage where we are now to do so, because we are making an appeal to the Public Service Commission. If we table the names now, we will be creating another problem all together. That is the indulgence I am asking from the hon. Member because I think we are ... view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think Mr. Ethuro knows that we do not have those characteristics of impunity. It could be that as he is talking now, some of those candidates in Turkana have received their letters. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: I will not allow him now because I know why. The 339 were those who had not appeared and I believe Turkana was one of those groups that we had made a decision that they will collect their letters, and their personal numbers will be included. This decision was made on Monday afternoon. I suspect by now those numbers must have been generated. The hon. Member could check and find out what is happening then give us a feedback. If it has not happened, we will be glad to steamroll. view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have clearly stated that it is not the intention of the Ministry to be able to subject somebody who, at any rate has been in the job for the last six months and beyond, to further problems and difficulties. That is why it was necessary that the two Ministries had to meet because the lower cadre staff is actually a function of the Ministry of Public Service and the Public Service Commission. We were only called in to co-ordinate that exercise as the Ministry of Education. I think we are pushing it to the logical ... view
• 2 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a fairly straightforward Bill. Article 163(3) of our Constitution establishes the Supreme Court of Kenya. We have not had an opportunity to have a supreme court of Kenya. There have been so many disparities in our various levels of jurisdiction that the public felt disenchanted whenever they had to go for appeals. They felt short-changed. Therefore, the establishment of the Supreme Court offers an opportunity for all Kenyans who are aggrieved in one way or the other, to be able to ventilate their feelings through the Supreme Court. More so, of immediate interest to ... view