Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1431 to 1440 of 1925.

• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry has prepared a Cabinet memo seeking Executive Order for the establishment of the National Commission for Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK) and several programmes in ASAL areas are currently being implemented under the Nomadic Education Policy. (b) The request for funding for the two schools has been approved by the Mandera East District Education Board. The Ministry will provide funds to the schools when Treasury provides additional funds in the next Financial Year, 2011/12. The Ministry has requested for Kshs658 million for funding the current 393 schools and ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I fully appreciate the predicament our children in drought stricken areas are under. If you will remember correctly, during the Supplementary Estimates that were read here, we had to forego the infrastructure funds in favour of school-feeding programme. If that is not enough, we will be quite prepared on a case to case basis to do something. Where they have not been receiving food, we will be too happy and willing to liaise with the World Food Programme and the Ministry of State for Special Programmes in order to provide food for these children. view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am quite happy to answer that. First and foremost, the date quoted by Mr. Affey is wrong. I launched this Nomadic Education Policy in December last year. Secondly--- view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this policy was meant to be launched in July last year. But the actual date which the hon. Member is fully aware of because he participated in the launching was in December last year. First of all, we did a preliminary discussion with those coming from the ASAL regions in the Serena Hotel, just to refresh his memory. The official launching was actually done on December, 2010. That is the correct information. As regards the allegation, obviously, I did indicate to the hon. Members at that time that if we took the route of forming ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, by no means will I ever mislead this House. Mr. Ethuro knows very well that the Executive Order stays to be an Executive Order by somebody else other than me. All I can do is to do the preparatory work which I have done. In fact, that preparatory work was ready three months later after we visited Garissa and we launched the policy. I have it here on record. However, because we have not been able to process through the necessary channels, it would be improper on my part to tell you that it has ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I mentioned earlier on that there are about 393 schools under the current programme on low-cost boarding schools. We will be asking, and, indeed, we have put in our proposals to the Treasury, an additional 205 low-cost boarding schools to be catered for. We have, in fact, a list of the areas that we intend to go to, as a minimum package in order to deal with the problem of low-cost boarding primary schools. view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one other area that the hon. Member should appreciate is that, apart from the direct Government support for low-cost boarding schools, there are other organizations which are supporting them directly through a non-joint Government operations. This is the minimum that the Government has been able to do. I am now assuring this House that we have, indeed, factored in additional number of schools that will benefit from that support once the Treasury gives us the list. Those who may wish to come, I will be too ready to go through the list of every school ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you appreciate that, that is a different question. We do not have a policy of teacher employment for nomadic communities versus the rest of the country. We have a policy of teacher deployments in the Republic of Kenya. As regards the teacher deployment in the Republic of Kenya, everybody is fully aware in this House that we employed contract teachers in each constituency in order to overcome the deficit of teachers in some of the constituencies. Those in ASAL regions will appreciate that when we apply that affirmative action--- view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, that policy was launched in December. It is too quick to even think that people have died between December and now and, therefore, there must be a drastic change of policy. Secondly, we can deal with natural attrition by replacing those who have retired due to natural calamities from the schools where they left. That way, we will have the element of equity rather than advertising nationally. You run into difficulties of not getting the suitable teachers for areas that were affected by natural attrition. Now, if the attrition rates are in the order ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had expected hon. Ethuro to say thank you for the affirmative action that I have taken in several areas. One, affirmative action is the admission to national schools. Two, there was affirmative action in the deployment of contract teachers. They were really satisfied that, for the first time, they were able to, at least, employ teachers. Thirdly, I intend, in line with the question that he has asked, to take further affirmative action when I have enough resources in the next budget. view