Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to ask Question 432 of 2021 to the Cabinet Secretary for Education: (i) What was the rationale for the issuance of an advisory by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to all Bachelor of Education students in universities to study all subjects as opposed to specialisation as has been the case in the past? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide statistical data of all the special education teacher requirements per county, the number of all qualified special education teachers, and the number of special education teachers employed by TSC from the 2017/2018 Financial Year to ... view
• 7 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I totally agree with Hon. Otiende Amollo on the holiday for prayer, but we have seen in other countries like the US. They have a national thanksgiving day which is essentially a prayer day. I believe that in this country, every religious group has set aside days for prayer and these are special days. They are in the Christian calendar. We have Christmas Day, Easter and others. The Hindus have Diwali and Muslims have Eid. Those holidays are there and normally they are declared national holidays on those particular days. So, I believe that we should ... view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I ask Question 392 of 2021 to the Cabinet Secretary for Education: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide details of all agreements, contracts or memoranda entered into with book publishers for the distribution and supply of textbooks to secondary and primary schools as well as schedules of payments so far made to each publisher with respect to the Financial Year 2019/2020 and the current financial year? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the criteria informing the frequency of supply of textbooks to a particular secondary or primary school? (iii) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the ... view
• 29 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. This is a Petition that has been brought by a victim of electoral violence. Electoral violence normally happens when elections are bungled, when people mismanage elections, rigging and all manner of things. This creates a lot of emotional imbalance and people start fighting, property is destroyed and lives are lost. It is high time we managed our affairs properly especially those managing our election. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) must now be preparing itself well so that they do not mismanage the election and people end up fighting again. We believe that the ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I wanted to speak to the earlier amendments. view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I declare that I am a Member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. This matter is coming before the Committee tomorrow for our deliberation. Maybe we will bring the report back to the House for debate. As usual, the IEBC is becoming mischievous by trying to set Parliament up. They allege that Parliament refused to approve these Regulations when they know very well that they have not followed the right procedure. They are rushing and know that time is not on their side. I believe that this matter will be well-processed by the Committee and ... view
• 6 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I support. I wanted to speak on the earlier one, but I support the proposed amendment as proposed by the Chairperson. view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to say from the outset that I support the BBI Bill. One of the tenets of this Bill is when the two statesmen, President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, came together and shook hands in 2018 that changed the political landscape of this country. They came up with nine points that had to define the way forward from that day. One of the issues that were addressed was the divisive elections that were held after the new Constitution; in 2013 and 2017 that ended in dispute and in court. We ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Our Constitution is 10 years old and is ripe for audit. We have seen that the constitution is a living document, it only works for us, and it is made for us and not us for the Constitution. We have seen the weaknesses in the Constitution that we need to address. One of the things that made the 2010 Constitution to be passed by Kenyans was the introduction of devolution. We have seen through the BBI that we are even addressing the issue of devolution, trying to strengthen them and giving more revenue to the counties, ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Civil Service being weakened so much that it is even undermining the performance of the Government. When you look previously under the regime of President Kenyatta and President Moi, the Civil Service was very vibrant and it was the reason we never had these divisive politics. In many countries even when an election is going on, the running of government is not disrupted because we have a civil service that is intact, strong and one that can manage the running of government even without the political arm of the government. However, in this country we have seen even when we ... view