Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1631 to 1640 of 1925.

• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I think Dr. Nuh, Member for Bura and many others have more or less asked similar question. You remember one of the issues that concern the hon. Members of this august House is the question of examination cheating. Therefore, we needed a correct method of identifying who are the possible impersonators involved in cheating in the examination. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Some of the candidates who appeared for the other candidates impersonated the identity of those candidates. It was not feasible to be able to discern between those who registered genuinely for the examination and those who appeared genuinely for that examination. Therefore, it became necessary to incorporate the birth certificates, so that, that will then be able to tell us how long--- view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I think hon. C. Kilonzo knows very well that one of the biggest problems we have, particularly some of our terms are the impersonation of these examinations and the origin of some of these people. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: In fact, it was at the request and at the behest of this honourable House that we must look for a credible method of registering these candidates for both Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). That we should be able to find a method of identifying date, bona fide, genuine candidates who have sat for these examinations. It is in pursuit of this request from this honourable House that we thought the simplest and basic method that would be used is to identify these children through their birth certificates. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Secondly, I think we are entering into mainstreaming the Early Childhood Education (ECD) programme into primary sector. In this year you will have noticed there is a little budget that is making an attempt to mainstream the ECD into the primary circle programme, so that we have a continuous education programme right through from early childhood to the primary sector and eventually through the secondary which is a total of 12 years programme in school. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: In order to be able to trace some of these children from early childhood and in terms of the identification, this then becomes a useful tool in knowing where these candidates are and what they are doing. It also helps the teachers to be able to mark their progress. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: As for the question of hon. Mungatana, yes, indeed, there was a meeting between the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons and the Minister for Education and the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs under whose docket Immigration falls before this exercise was started. We looked at ways and means of energising this exercise because from the immigration point of view people were not coming for registration. Therefore, they were not able to give correct identity or correct number of registration of people who are there. By choosing this other method for our own purposes, it is ... view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think in order to allay the fears of the hon. Member, these are children who are--- view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, that is the way forward. If you have read the circular that we issued today, you will find that the headmasters of schools who know these children will register them. It will speed up the process if they became agents. Therefore, there is need for collaboration between the principals, District Education Officers, Assistant Education Officers and the Registrar of Persons within a given district. That way, the process will go on harmoniously and without any hiccups. I think that is the way forward. The Minister in charge of immigration, Mr. Kajwang and I have met ... view