Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1601 to 1610 of 1925.

• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Vote 49 - Ministry Public Health and Sanitation view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution. view
• 17 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support and second this Motion. Under normal procedures, Standing Order No.20 allows sittings to be done on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning and afternoon, and Thursday afternoon. There is no provision in the Standing Orders that these sittings be held on Thursday morning. In view of the anticipation and excitement among Kenyans, and in view of the heavy load of business before the august House, it is prudent that we add more sittings in order to dispose of certain Bills and budgetary provisions by line Ministries in order to be ready for the wonderful inaugural ... view
• 17 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to second. view
• 12 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg your indulgence. My Assistant Minister has just walked in. With your permission, he can be allowed to take the podium and deal with the Ministerial Statement accordingly. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to support this Report for many reasons. I was Kenya’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) for five years and some of the issues which were finding their way into debate within the ACP-EU Joint Committee meetings at that time were at the rudimentary level and most of the conventions that were deliberated at that time, the issue that we were grappling with was the question of the legal framework and other measures which may be required to mitigate against certain other issues. Of particular interest was the ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The Ministry has developed policy frameworks and implemented the following intervention measures under the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP) at the provincial and district levels towards addressing access, equity, transition, relevance and quality of education. The Ministry has also convened annual education stakeholders fora on improving access, equity and quality of education and provision of infrastructure. Another forum will be held between 12th and 16th of July, 2010 and all the stakeholders, including hon. Members, have been invited. We have disbursed a total of Kshs322 million to over 200 primary schools ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Further, we have disbursed a total of Kshs61,400,837 since 2007 to ECD centres under the Community Support Grants Programme (CSGP). We have disbursed grants worth Kshs506,387,000 between 2003 and 2010 for public secondary schools. We have implemented child friendly schools CFC programmes in collaboration with the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF). The programme is aimed at improving physical infrastructure, teaching and learning and community linkages among others. We have introduced mobile schools for improving nomadic education, and a total of Kshs21,847,064 to support mobile schools was disbursed between 2006 and 2010. We have established seven special schools and disbursed ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is known that we have lower cost boarding schools. Under the Economic Stimulus Package, centres of excellence have been established in collaboration with the Ministry of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands and, through the Constituency development fund, we are doing infrastructure programme. We are providing food to schools under the school feeding programme. We have posted quality assurance officers to the programme. We have organized building workshops and training programmes. We have strengthened mathematics and science under the SMASSE Programme. We have implemented the delocalisation policy to improve academic progress. Finally, we have disbursed ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Yes, indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other parts of Kenya did not get a special grant of Kshs280 million which North Eastern Province got for the purposes of infrastructure. view