Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

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• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: have many institutions in this country dealing with malaria issues. However, their activities are not co-ordinated. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, I believe that we need to get all the key stakeholders in one way or the other in a forum to strengthen this Bill. Therefore, I would like to appeal to Mr. Kaino to consider this proposal. As this Bill goes to the Departmental Committee dealing with health, I believe that other key stakeholders should be involved, so that we can come up with a Bill that will be very comprehensive, given the nature of malaria in this ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: I am supporting it, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing – (a) whether he is aware that most of the retired members of the Railway Co- operative Society have not been paid their share contributions to the society; and, (b) when the members, particularly those from Emuhaya Constituency, will be paid their money? view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Assistant Minister for finally coming to this House to answer this Question which has been pending for the last three to four weeks. Having said that, could she clarify her answer? The answer she has given is not adequate. The clarification I want is this; the answer says that the arrears owned by the members of the Railway SACCO Society is Kshs500 million. The Ministry entered into an agreement with the SACCO to pay Kshs100 million as deposit and Kshs13 million to be paid per month for 30 months. One of the ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, given that the Members of the Railway SACCO Society have been denied access to their money for a long time and they are still going to wait for the next two or three years, is the Assistant Minister going to work out interest on this money? view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is interest being considered because this money should have been paid earlier on? Why is interest not being considered? view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to take this opportunity, first, to thank the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology for the contribution that they gave towards the writing of this report. I also want to take this opportunity to thank the Kenyatta University management for the co-operation that they gave us while the Committee was compiling this report. I also wish to thank all the key stakeholders who we summoned to come and give us information regarding investigation on this matter. I want to say that we received very useful information from various key stakeholders. ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I second this Motion, I would like to say that the key problem that led to the strike at Kenyatta University was the issue of registration deadline. This was one of the key precursors to the starting of the strike. Another issue that also contributed to the strike, as the Chairman has said, was the poor relationship between the students and the university administration. The students made every effort to meet the university administration but along the line, it was not possible and the dialogue broke down. One of the other issues that led ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: The issue of co-ordination of security at the university was also noted as one of the key problems. There was a problem between the university regular security officials and the hired security firm. It appeared that the security firm that was hired seemed to have more power than the regular security staff of the university. Again, that had a major contribution to the strike. I also want to note that there were other issues that were raised. One of the major issues that was raised was the form of administration at the university. From all the submissions that we received, ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other area that we found was lacking and caused many problems was lack of communication among the university stakeholders, particularly communication between university management, the lecturers and the students. There was a breakdown. As I said earlier, it appeared to us that everything had to emanate from the Vice-Chancellor’s office. This, we noted, caused many problems. In our recommendations, we have made it very clear that there should be decentralization of management; giving various faculties or schools autonomy to be able to run their schools or faculties with, of course, guiding principles as spelt ... view