Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 541 to 550 of 1925.

• 22 May 2020 in Senate: Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki, do not compare the academia with political games. These are two different worlds all together. If I were you, I would not listen to the kind of heavy messages of being told to move on. This is because after this debate, I dare say that you will be on your own. That is the time you will know those who are pushing you will be miles and miles away. My only simple advice is that accept the challenge that has been put before you gracefully and take the opportunity at some stage to meet the Party boss ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me also stand to congratulate you for a very good ruling on how we should move forward in this situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let me remind this House that when we had the HIV/AIDS pandemic, I was then the Minister for Health. One of the things we needed to do was to get a decision of Parliament. However, it happens that, at that time, the President was not in the country. He had gone to another country for peace talks. He was to stop in Mombasa for three hours when he came back. ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I appreciate that during this pandemic of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), the Government considered additional employment of the various medical cadres in various counties to alleviate the acute shortage of workers in these counties. I hope that this will be a permanent feature because the acute shortage of these workers in various counties leaves a lot to be desired. Services may not necessarily be rendered to the people with finality. Secondly, while employing these people, there must be a level of transparency and accountability. I have heard stories from several counties that may not be ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to complement the Chairperson of the Committee on Health for the very timely Statement. One of the most worrying things is when you see a very prolific presentation of various versions of COVID-19 in the social media or even in some of the scientific papers; whether they are scientific fictions or papers per se . What worries me right now is the interpretation of what a pandemic is and what it can cause to the society. There is no doubt that the Coronavirus has ravaged quite a number of nations starting with China, ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: WHO has a plethora of scientists who can look through the problem before they declare it a worldwide pandemic. With those few clarifications, I think this nation should be well off on the road to combat the COVID-19 the way we are doing it at the moment. view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I do not know where to start and where to end. There are several issues that need to be redefined. As the Cabinet Minister for Education, I engaged the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in developing the digital content. Indeed, they developed digital content for Standard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. By the time I left, they were developing digital content for Standard 7 and 8. Equally so, they had also developed digital content for Form 1 and 2 and were waiting to develop the same for Form 3 and 4. We ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: However, the first level is the gadgets which were supposed to come. Initially, we had digital centers in every school and now they brought in the so-called tablets. I saw yesterday on the television a teacher somewhere in the Arid and Semi-Arid Region who has invested in his own tablet, but has not been approved by the Ministry of Education, which indicates the level of confusion there is in learning. My submission this morning - I thank Sen. Kwamboka for raising this matter - is that the Cabinet Secretary for Education, with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), must ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to speak with nostalgia. I was the Medical Officer of Health in Wajir County in 1967 to 1968. It is with horror that at time we had a simple generator that only supplied power to the District Commissioner’s (DC), the police commandant and the Medical officer’s houses. Even when I used to do the operations in the hospital, I used the foot pump to be able to do the kind of operations I needed. If one travels the length and width of Wajir County, it is very expansive. From Wajir itself to Griftu, Burma, Gural ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: It is important and we owe it to the people of Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Turkana and these other areas that they now need to seriously look at generating, not only the solar, but also the wind energy which is so much in plenty in some of those regions. view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: I commend my medical student at that time, Sen. (Dr.) Ali for bringing this question before us. view