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    "id": 804252,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "It is good to make it clear because the Chair in charge of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security is here. What we did was to raise money from various sources. This is just one of them. It was not just for recruitment of teachers because a meagre Kshs30 million cannot recruit a good number of teachers. We have raised about Kshs6 billion to go to TVET, just in line with what the Leader of the Majority Party has said – to be able to recruit 2,000 teachers. We have already built so many teachers training institutes across the country in our constituencies, investing even part of our NG-CDF money of Kshs3 million shillings that we have put in. We are doing an additional 15 TTIs in the next financial year. So, we have also allocated money for that. All this money we have raised will recruit 2,000 teachers while Kshs2.5 billion will go towards school capitation of the TTIs. What the Leader of the Majority Party was saying is that a child or a student who is joining TVET can do so without necessarily having to pay anything. We are lifting the capitation from Kshs19,000 per student to Kshs30,000. It is true. I can tell you that in my constituency, when our TTI was ready, we could only raise seven students when we advertised for them to join. That was even after offering to give them a bursary of up to Kshs10,000. It was because of the cost. We were only able to get about 23 students in about three weeks. Therefore, what the Ministry is doing is to intervene to make sure that there is capitation to attract more students. I agree with Hon. Wanga that, indeed, the way to go to change this country is through TVETs and TTIs. The other point is that we are not removing all the money that had been allocated for police housing. It is just a small pinch from that department. We have also pinched from our universities and other departments. You will be able to clearly see those as we proceed. Therefore, this is just raising the Kshs6 billion that we needed for TVETs."
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