Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1841 to 1850 of 1925.

• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if, today, I am told by Treasury that I pay this money within a year, I will do so. However, I do not hold the purse. I may wish to do so, but if the will to bring that money on the table is lacking - and the money is not there - my wish will simply be a wish! view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: With regard to Mr. Abdirahman's question on the KUPPET issue, there is total misunderstanding about that union and I want to put it to rest. KUPPET is a registered union representing post-primary school teachers, basically graduate teachers. They have been in existence for ten years. They have an agreement with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and, therefore, the members' dues are subtracted from their salaries by the TSC and remitted to KUPPET. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: However, they were not members of the Teachers Salary Review Commission (TSRC) because the law tells me that they must have a statutory simple majority of 51 per cent membership for them to be part of the TSRC. They made a petition to me as the Minister in September or October last year. I looked at it. That time, their membership was 11,000 teachers. I called the TSC because they made an allegation that there were 20,000 applications in the TSC which had not been processed. When I looked at the whole process and since it involved the Collective Bargaining ... view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Indeed, both KUPPET and the TSC went before the Ministry of Labour in October and November 2008. They were advised that the TSC, who is the employer, can only receive individual membership and not corporate membership. One of the things that KUPPET did is that during the whole of November, 2008, they went on recruiting individuals and today, they have the required 51 per cent. As if that was not enough because they were going to derail the TSRC negotiations, the TSC went to court to bar them from being members of TSC and, therefore, bar them from any strike ... view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the court ruling, which I am prepared to lay on the Table, states that KUPPET is a bona fide union member. They have existed for ten years and, therefore, the employer, the TSC, must comply with the normal labour laws. Therefore, the signing of the CBA by the TSC is a product of the court ruling. The only remedy to a product of a court ruling is an appeal. view
• 9 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I want to concur with hon. Imanyara that, indeed, what is being sought here is already fully covered in Section 2, which we shall shortly be coming to. It would be dangerous to assign a Temporary Deputy Speaker a prerogative which may have far reaching consequences and where a Temporary Deputy Speaker may not have had the benefit of a well researched decision while making that ruling. Therefore, if you insert a clause here that the Speaker's ruling shall be final, we would be inundated with rulings that may be ultra vires of what we are trying ... view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I was involved in the climate change negotiations. The convention that created the framework for the Convention on Climate Change was done when I was Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). I also rise to support this Motion because I was deeply involved - I became the President of the Multilateral Fund for the Ozone Layer. What we are seeing today are the after-effects of environmental degradation. What we are seeing now is the tail-end of the problem and it requires a deep and concerted ... view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I have some difficulty with the just proposed amendment to the amendment. By that action, Mr. Bett has indicated the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) as being a member of the evangelical group. They are not! Therefore, it will be a fatal mistake to make an amendment on an amendment including a faith which is not an express member of the evangelical group. That is where the fatality of this amendment comes in. view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me, first of all, from the outset, thank the hon. Members for making very positive contributions towards both the Recurrent and Development Vote of the Ministry of Education. We have studiously taken note of the concerns of hon. Members. All my officers are here in this House from the Permanent Secretary to the sectoral directors of various institutions. I think they can feel the tempo and vibrations of this House. Therefore, I want to thank you for standing with us in running a very difficult and challenging Ministry. We are never short of problems. ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: There are issues that have been raised by hon. Members. Whereas I may not be able to touch all of them, some of them were covered in my budget presentation. Others will be covered as we subsequently debate many other issues in this House. Hon. Bifwoli who has been here - he was the last speaker - talked about teachers not signing performance contracts. He has been a teacher for 30 years. We are simply saying that performance contracting is a measure of an individual to deliver the tasks that have been set before him or her. We are not ... view