Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 201 to 210 of 1925.

• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: I can inform you if you allow me. view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: The Bill clearly stipulates that the level of entry will be at the craftsman. I think we have a benchmark through which we can do the necessary appraisal in terms of support, financing and budget provision. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to compliment Sen. Kasanga Mulwa for this very timely Statement on the status of mental health. Mental health, although dubbed an illness, is a normal process in the status--- view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe that Kasanga Mulwa is the father of Sen. Sylvia Kasanga. That should settle the matter. I do not think that it was meant in a bad way. If anything, it was according the highest respect from an elder like me, to a daughter. On a serious note, many people have dubbed mental illness as a disease that you must be confined to solitary confinement. This has been a misnomer of the type of disease that we are dealing with. About 80 per cent of Kenyans are mentally ill because they have a problem that is ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the things that has been a big problem for this nation is people being duped that they are psychologically affected and, therefore, need to be confined and restrained in some of the mental hospitals like Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital. Let me assure this House that every one of us, including the Senators, have gone through a crisis and a mental depression in one form or the other. This is the everyday exercise that we find ourselves in. We should treat this as a normal occurrence that happens like a cold or any other ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: That is why one of the major recommendations that must always happen is that this must be an integrated service within the normal health service provision in the country. You cannot start segregating what is mental and what is not mental because technically, all of us are mentally ill in one form or the other. Even when you have a disease, you go through depression, anxiety and some level of self-interrogation wondering what happened to you in life. I believe that we will have an urgent policy where all cases that have some level of mental illness will be able ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: We need to strengthen mental health systems both at the national and county level. In the counties, those who were aspiring to be governors such as Sen. Cherargei and Sen.(Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko, it is important we take note that mental ill-health is within the society in which we live. You must make provisions in your budget to take care of basic mental illnesses that are treatable and preventable and cause no more headache to anybody. It is just like a cough or flu. We have seen the societal pressures that if we remove the poverty among our people such that access ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I have tremendous pleasure in seconding this Bill. I was the first Minister for Technical Training and Applied Technology in 1988. One of the things that was meant for me to establish was the fact that there were so many Juakali operators who did not have any level of certification. They could not be recognized whether in the motor industry, agriculture or anything else. They were left completely at the mercy of the big industrialists who could manipulate them in one way or the other. This was because they did not have any The electronic ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: qualifications framework that one could think of for them to be able access either employment or for their products to access markets. If they did so, they were considered sub-standard and suffered immense loss and could not participate in the economy of this land. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: My first task was to create a qualification framework for those school leavers at the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) level and secondary level. view