Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1741 to 1750 of 1775.

• 8 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have listened and heard my Question. You have also heard the answer that has been given by the Assistant Minister. I think there are two things here. Either the Assistant Minister misunderstood my Question or he is deliberately misleading the House because my Question was very specific. I had asked him to confirm whether the Government had reviewed the terms of service for teachers in the last ten years. He has given us a story of 1997 and the 200 per cent salary increase, when he knows very well the circumstances under which that increment took ... view
• 8 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. You have just heard the Assistant Minister twist the Question to suit his own answer! We are not talking about other employers poaching teachers! The teachers are moving out because they are having difficulties in their profession! For example, a teacher in Job Group "P" in the teaching profession earns Kshs30,000, while a civil servant in the same job group in the Government earns Kshs100,000! I want the Assistant Minister to tell us what he is doing to make sure that we do not have teachers moving out of the profession so ... view
• 8 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to say that the answer given by the Assistant Minister is only cosmetic. It is very sad that the Assistant Minister is being coached by his boss in this Chamber on how to answer the Question. We all know the problem of shortage of teachers in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my own constituency, I have a shortage of teachers in primary schools. We even know it from their offices that we have a shortage of 60,000 teachers. Could the Assistant Minister assure this House that the Ministry is going to recruit teachers ... view
• 8 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to say that this shortage is caused by teachers moving out because of poor pay. So, he should not tell us that the shortage is caused by the introduction of free primary education. That is an additional issue which can be addressed later. Is the Assistant Minister in order to mislead the House? view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of IDPs is a matter which is of grave concern. As we know, there are some people who were settled in areas where they were just working on farms for others. There are others who had settled there, because they owned property there. Now, I would like to get assurance from the Assistant Minister on whether there is any action they are taking to ensure that those IDPs who had settled in places as workers on farms and were displaced because of the clashes which were there, who do not want to move back ... view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want an assurance that the Ministry will not force people to settle where they do not want to settle. Some of them, were just workers who did not own property where they were living before. view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Roads:- (a) whether he could confirm that Mbagathi Way in Nairobi was co-financed by the Government of Kenya and various cement manufacturing companies; and, (b) whether he could confirm the total cost to date, indicating the respective contribution of each of the parties. view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can see the kind of confusion that we go through. The figure of Kshs483 billion which the Assistant Minister has read to us is actually the Budget for the whole country. You can see the kind of answers the Government gives us in this House. That is why we are saying that the Leader of Government Business must take the lead in this matter. We said that this morning. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that not withstanding, I would like the Assistant Minister to tell us the purpose of that joint venture. Given the figures read ... view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. If the Assistant Minister is July 2, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1577 correcting what he just read to us, then he should apologise to this House and say that he is the one to be corrected. It is not me to be corrected. view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all the answers that the Assistant Minister has given are very miserable. This is a public road and its construction started more than three years ago. If a six-kilometre road can take more than three years to be constructed, how long shall we take to do all the roads in this country? view