Silas Muriuki Ruteere

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: 4094 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 11, 2008 read and seen on television that there would be no increase of school fees, yet it comes. The obvious reaction, especially from the very poor, is that they are being denied the opportunity for education because they do not have the fees. So, to prove their point, they go on strike. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, burning of houses and property after the post-election violence sent very bad signals to our children; that they can only vent their anger by burning and destroying property. So when the students got annoyed by the action of the school administration, the obvious thing was that they had to burn the houses. That is when they could be listened to. That is when mediation would come. That is when reconciliation could come. That is when the principal could listen to them. Therefore, the way we, as society, behave has a big impact, negative or positive, ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The students in secondary schools are at their adolescence age. Generally, it is accepted that when people are at that age, they feed a lot. They are very active and need a lot of food. That is when they are in schools which ration food and may not be giving enough. When they ask for permission to go out because they may be having money to buy bread, they are denied the permission. This causes a lot of problems in school. We should know how to handle these adolescents. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the school administration should be properly prepared. When I was appointed a headteacher, I underwent a lot of courses. These included in-service course, a programme for education management and administration, a programme for accounting. Although I did not become an accountant, I know a bit of basic book-keeping. When the school bursar brought to me what he had done, I was able to know what it was. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, drug and substance abuse in our schools need to be addressed properly. The officials of NACADA should be brought in, in every school. They should address all the students and where there is a problem, they should get experts to go and do counselling. There are schools that are prone to that vice, because the drug barons are targetting the youth. They have realized that their market is the youth. For that reason, they want the market to be there all the time. It is time the Ministry of Education took positive steps to assist ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have local brews and bars that are licenced around our institutions. It is time that those bars were banned and removed from around the school compounds! It is time to ensure that there are no local brews around our school compounds! It is time the Provincial Administration took an active role in seeing that the local brews within the schools are eliminated. Therefore, we should all put concerted efforts to see to it that liquor, which is a substance that is abused, is done away with from around the school compounds. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we come to the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), the story is very pathetic. That is because it sends disgruntled people to mark the examinations. Some may mark them fairly and others may not mark them fairly! We have already seen what is happening today - some markers have threatened to go out of their marking centres, especially the centres where this year's Kiswahili paper is being marked. What will happen to the students when they see that they have not got positive results in the Kiswahili papers that they did? Whether that is ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Otherwise, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, because I do not want to repeat next time, I second the adoption of this Report. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to ask the Minister for Agriculture the following Question by Private Notice. (a) What modalities will the Minister use to effect the recent directive to sell the 2- kilogramme maize flour packet at Kshs52 and Kshs72 for poor and other Kenyans, respectively? 3968 (b) Are there plans for similar arrangements with regard to other essential commodities? view