Wesley Kipchumba Korir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 171 to 180 of 312.

• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion, which should be implemented as soon as possible. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I take this opportunity to thank the Mover for thinking about a very special thing that has been neglected for a long time. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: When we talk about education in this country, we are not talking about privilege, but a right. This is a right that is envisioned in the Constitution that every child should access education. However, in the recent past, education has become a privilege of a few individuals who can afford to pay and take their children to school. This is a very serious issue. As a country, if we do not take care of this issue, it will take us to a point where we will have two classes of people in this country. We will have the class of ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: This is a small part of the big puzzle of the big problem that needs to be solved. In this country, we have the problem of increasing school fees. Right now, we are taking care of a small piece, namely the examination fees part of it. What about the rest? What about the Kshs30,000, Kshs40,000, Kshs50,000 or the Kshs100,000 that parents have to part with every time they take their children to school? As we move forward, we need to seriously look at the issue of education in this country. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I would like to differ with hon. Wakhungu that we need to look at this from a private and a public perspective. If you are talking about the Kenya National Examinations Council, it should be equal for everybody. We are talking about examinations. There are no examinations for private schools and public schools. We are talking about national examinations for all schools. So, let us make education affordable for every child in Kenya. There is no special child. There are no children of the rich and children of the poor. We are all children of Kenya. We belong to Kenya. ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Another issue that I want this House to look deeply into is the system of our education. We have a system that is failing us. It is failing us because we have an exam-oriented system of education. We need to move from an exam oriented system of education to a practical system of education. When our children sit for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) or the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (KCSE) and do not pass, they are looked at as failures. However, there are people who are not book smart, but if you give them a ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I support this Bill, but we need to look deep into the issue of our education system and school fees and make sure that every child in this country gets a chance to get what is their right and not a privilege. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to oppose this amendment. As my friend Chris has said, I am opposing this amendment alluding to the fact that from the previous amendment, we have just added the youth and people living with disability as members of the Board. We are again saying five years of experience and I think we are really contradicting ourselves because by the time youths graduate from the university---A youth is somebody under 35 years. So, if you are saying that somebody graduates from the university and should have five years experience then we are locking ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to record my thanks upon the President’s speech. Before I go on, I would like to quote the Constitution Chapter 254, which talks about Reporting by Commissions and Independent offices. “At any time, the President, the National Assembly or the Senate may require a Commission or holder of an Independent Office to submit a Report on a particular issue”. There is an issue here. We are putting something that is very serious in this country. Corruption is a cancer and you cannot treat cancer with malaria. We are talking about ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: We should discuss it independently, but not with the President’s Speech. This Report is watering down the good Speech that the President gave. It is also watering down the issue of corruption that is serious in this country. When I look at this Report, it is nonsense! It is nothing because it is talking about “analyzing and preliminary investigations.” That is nothing. The EACC should stop. Once your name goes to the public that you are corrupt, that is public opinion court and you are done as a Member of Parliament. Before they bring this Report, they need to know ... view