Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Kenyan MPs query status of bills

Written By:KBC parliament team , Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2010

The Attorney General has seven days to issue a report on the status of six bills forwarded to President Mwai Kibaki for accent following parliament's endorsement in the third reading.

In a communication Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim expressed concern that the 21 day period set out in law for the Attorney general to give a response on whether the President accented to the bills or written a memorandum to parliament to reconsider certain clauses had lapsed.

The bills are namely the counter trafficking in Person's Bill, animal technician's bill, indemnity bill, price control bill, alcohol control bill, and commissions of inquiry bill.

Expressing concern nominated MP Mohammed affey who sponsored the indemnity repeal bill said some of them were passed five months ago yet the president had not acted.

The bill seeks to have armed forces who participated in the Shifta war between 1963 to 1967 face prosecution as well as allow those afflicted seek legal redress.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education will spend a huge chunk of its budget on paying teachers salaries.

Education

Minister for Education Sam Ongeri seeking parliament's backing to spend part of its 94 billion shillings budget in the financial year 2010/2011, said 3 billion shillings will go towards paying the newly recruited 18,000 intern teachers on a 3 year contract as well as completing the government's promise to increase teacher's salaries in phases.

At the same time, he pointed out the budgetary allocation of 131 billion for recurrent expenditure and 9.5 billion for development was below their requirement to meet the teacher student ration.

He said the enrollment levels of pupils into the free primary education has hit the 8.4million mark while for secondary has hit 1.5 million. At the same time he pointed out the government

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