Silas Muriuki Ruteere

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Yesterday, I heard that the Treasury is so adamant that it cannot give the money, yet if a crisis arises, they will come here to look for money! Is this crisis not enough for the Minister for Finance to come and look for that money from this Parliament? What other crisis are we waiting for when all the children are at home? Let us not be cheated that secondary schools are running. They are not! Teachers in schools are in the staffrooms and nobody can ask them anything. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: What might happen tomorrow or the day after is that you will see students chasing away the teachers, because they are not being taught. Again, if all the primary schools are not running, are those children not our concern? Are we not supposed to be concerned about the situation where I took a Standard I kid to school and three weeks later he or she is back home, and does not understand what is happening? She is playing and she does not know whether school runs for three weeks and then people go home! view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I feel that this Government should look for a way of paying the teachers, if not in one phase, then in, at least, two phases. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the teachers should be involved in negotiations. The conciliator should not be there when the TSC is taking the case to court. These two measures do not go together! If there is a conciliator, he is the one supposed to handle matters, and not a court and a conciliator at the same time. The Trade Disputes Act does not provide for that. So, let there be negotiations with the KNUT, so that our children can go back to school. I would like to ask Dr. Khalwale to second this Motion. view
• 17 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion for Adjournment. From the outset, I wish to say that I support the Motion. As has been said by many of my colleagues, we are here to look back with pride that we have overcome all the challenges that have been on our way. We have done much of the work that Kenyans sent us here to do. If we audited ourselves, without being very proud, we would say that we have measured up to the tasks that were bestowed upon us by the ... view
• 17 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to second the Motion for the adoption of the Report as has been moved very ably by the Chairman. From the outset, I would like to say that the Report is very comprehensive; it touches on all the issues that affect our students in our schools or institutions, what causes unrest and what might cause future unrest. If this situation is arrested on time, we may not witness the kind of unrest that we witnessed earlier this year. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Report is very comprehensive. It touches on all the issues that affect students in our schools and institutions, what causes unrest and what might cause future unrest. If arrested on time, we may not witness the kind of unrest that we witnessed during the second term of this year. The wave was so much in the entire country. It was so destructive and to date, some of the schools have not recovered from that destruction. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the analysis of the problems and what caused them, has been very fairly given. The Committee did a wonderful work. They criss-crossed the country, spoke to various stakeholders in various provinces, parents and students. They came up with the recommendations that have been presented to you. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: As a former headteacher, I want to say that the issues that have been raised concerning conflicting statements and reports emanating from the Ministry of Education, for example, some saying that there will be an increase in school fees. Others say there will be no increase in school fees. When the reality dawns on the principals and Boards, increases are made. The students have view