Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Under Clause 12, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also believe that we need some amendments. Clause 12 deals with remuneration of the Board members. Within our Constitution, it is clear that setting up of remuneration, allowances or anything like that will be the responsibility of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission. So, we need to put this into consideration. view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 13 deals with appointment of the Registrar. This Bill does not give the qualifications of the registrar. So, this is a very big omission. We would want this Bill to clearly specify the qualifications of a registrar, because he is going to be a very important person in the Board. So, we need to know that the registrar must have required qualifications. So, we will be proposing – after consultations with the stakeholders and the Ministry – what qualifications we need for this position. We also need to put in this Bill a provision ... view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Under Clause 14, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, which is about functions of the registrar, we would want the registrar to be an employee of the Board, and not of the Ministry, because once he becomes an employee of the Ministry, there would be quite a lot of conflict of interest. So, this is an area where we will also be proposing some amendments. view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Clause 18, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, is about the graduate engineer. This Bill is not very clear what it means by graduate engineer. According to this Bill, a graduate engineer cannot use the engineering prefix. So, we want to know how we will define a graduate engineer. This should be very clear in the Bill. view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other area which requires consideration by the Minister and all the stakeholders, is Clause 29 – that is the removal of persons from the register. These are engineers who would be removed after they have misbehaved, or they have had misconduct. Under what conditions will a person be removed from the register? We need this to be clearly specified, so that, that is clearly understood and is fair. view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Also, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 36 (2) deals with the issue of suspension or cancellation of the licence. This actually also requires that we clearly specify under what conditions an engineer can lose or have his license cancelled. This is also not very clear in the Bill. Under Clause 38 – Funds of the Board, it was the opinion of our Committee that a nominal fee from within the organization needs to be introduced to cater for the continuous training and make it compulsory. This is a proposal we are making but we will be having further discussions ... view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion. THAT, concerned that despite being one of the pioneers in space technology in Africa, Kenya has to date not developed its own capacity and capability to launch and use its own satellite unlike other countries in Africa; further concerned that Kenya has no Official Space Policy and Law to promote the development and use of space technology for sustainable development; this House resolves that the Government urgently formulates a National Space Science and Technology Policy and enacts the relevant laws that will spearhead the establishment and operationalization of ... view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, space science, and particularly astronomy, has been a subject of interest to mankind for many years. People have been very much intrigued when they look in space. They have always wondered what is in space. So, space science is a very important subject which has taken many years for mankind to study. view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: The first launch of satellite in space in 1957 marked the beginning of space race. The first satellite was put in space in 1957. That is when space race started. In 1962, the UN Charter on Peaceful Use of Outer Space was enacted. In 1972, we had the first satellite in space used to monitor what was going on, on planet Earth. view
• 12 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not go into further details about space science. What I want to concentrate on is why space science and technology is important to mankind, and particularly to this country. Allow me to define what “satellite” means in common man’s language. The word “satellite” is derived from the ancient Latin word view