Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1541 to 1550 of 1925.

• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: (b)The Ministry provides grants at the capitation of Kshs4,000 per child per year to low cost boarding primary schools to cater for non-teaching staff salaries and purchase of foodstuff. However, in the Financial Years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 the capitation was reduced to Kshs3,000 due to the increase in boarding schools and enrolments, despite the national budget remaining constant at Kshs375 million. Therefore, it means that due to inadequate funding, additional schools have not been considered in the Financial Year 2010/2011 half year disbursement (The list is also attached as Appendices 4 and 5). view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: The Ministry provides free primary education and free day secondary education grants to all public schools in Turkana District to cater for tuition and operation expenses. For the Financial Year 2010/2011, the Ministry has disbursed a total of Kshs839.7 million for all primary schools which included Kshs8.6 million for Turkana District in the Financial Years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011. The Ministry has also disbursed a total of Kshs15.8 billion to all the secondary schools which included Kshs28 million for 16 secondary schools in Turkana District (Appendix 6 is attached). view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Under the regular infrastructure Programme, the Ministry has disbursed a total of Kshs33.4 million to both primary and secondary schools in Turkana District in the Financial Year 2007/2008, as seen in Appendix 6. But in the Financial Years 2008/2009/2010, there was less funding for infrastructure due to withdrawal of the donors and as the Government funding was used for Recurrent Expenditure. In the Financial Year 2010/2011, the Ministry disbursed a total of Kshs230 million for primary schools and Kshs205 million for secondary schools by February 2011 in all districts, including Turkana. The schools are currently making applications to the District ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the Economic Stimulus Programme, four secondary schools have been identified and funded for the construction and upgrading of one of the centres of academic excellence in each of the three constituencies in Turkana District at a cost of Kshs30 million per school, as seen in Appendix 7. A total of Kshs7 million has been disbursed to two primary schools in each of the three constituencies in Turkana District for upgrading and equipping them with water harvesting and storage facilities. Under the regular School Feeding Programme, the food basket provided includes maize, 150 grams; pulses, 40 ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it has been my intention and continues to be a noble intention that all the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) including the greater Turkana, must be provided with low cost boarding primary schools because of the nature of the geographical terrain, the distances involved and the basic facilities which are lacking. To the extent that apart from the policy framework, which he has clearly enunciated, which we have set out as a Ministry, I have second additional measures. Those additional measures were to be able to specifically focus on ASAL areas. Consequently, we have been able ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to assure the hon. Member that it is a matter which I will not stand resting until it has been resolved in one way or the other because I believe, like everybody else, that those children are entitled to both the access, retention, quality, equity and equality that everything goes with the policy framework which we have enunciated as a Ministry. view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the School Feeding Programme is an important Programme for us; it is a partnership between our Ministry of Education, UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP). One of the things that we want to do is the homegrown approach system where we give funds to the communities, so that they can grow the food instead of accessing these foodstuffs through commercial ventures. They intend to be extremely expensive. There are storage problems that go along with it and the kind of vandalism that takes place and some of the foodstuff is stolen by some very uncaring ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second approach is to be able to increase the resources available. We have also realized that this is one way we are able to attract many of these children who are out there for us to be able to build education for all or to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for 2015, there is about 1.2 million or 1.5 million children out there who we believe are caught up in these areas of ASALS, pockets of poverty or in this hard-to-reach children. Therefore, one way of attracting them is to be able to have a ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a policy once developed, can never be a theory because it must have gone through several processes for it to be a policy framework and launched. As for the second question of the Executive Order, I gave you the two options. The fast-tracking is through the Presidential Executive Order because getting a Sessional Paper to come to this Parliament; creating an Act of Parliament to govern the nomadic education commission itself is a long drawn out process. Therefore, we are looking for a medium process where, in the interim, we can get an Executive Order. I ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, transport is a major problem in my Ministry. In the last Budget, along with the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, we requested the Treasury to provide us with Kshs1.2 billion to purchase vehicles, particularly for some of the most difficult areas. All that we got in the Budget was Kshs40 million. I have since then revisited the matter with the Treasury and we have had discussions. I have made presentations and written to the Treasury about the need for us to achieve the objective stated in our MDGs of education for all, particularly in ... view