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    "content": "with hon. Wetangula. Even when the Minister went there, he witnessed the deplorable condition in which Road C32 was. That road runs from Malakisi to Luakhakha. It was not allocated a penny in the last financial year. To-date, the road is in a very pathetic state. I have talked to the officers in the Ministry, who said that it has not received a penny from the last financial year. That road is in a terrible state, and we appeal to the Ministry of Finance to liaise with the Ministry of Roads. It was very unfortunate that the Minister for Roads told the public that it was the area Members of Parliament who were to blame, because they had not gone for the money or opened the accounts when it was the Ministry of Roads that had not provided for the funds. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, mine is just to say that as much as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance said that the spending of public finances should be very transparent and open to the public, I wish that his Ministry could always publish all the amounts allocated for such projects and amount of time it takes for the funds to reach the districts, so that leaders and members of the public can be able to trace when this money goes to the field, how it is spent and on what projects it has been put into use. Unless we do that, the agents of corruption will continue reigning in our society, and the public will not get value for money. We have a terrible situation. A lot of money has been voted for the Ministry of Education to support free tuition in secondary school, and free primary education. However, there is a mismatch between the data that officers have in schools, especially headmasters, and that is brought to the Ministry headquarters. Taking an example of my district, you will find that a school has 800 pupils. Whereas the officers on the ground keep on presenting the current figure as being 800, you find that the number of pupils who benefit from the school are only 400. However much they try presenting that data, there are people who are not willing to reflect the true figure on the ground, with the amount of money that is supposed to be disbursed to such schools. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is a lot of money that is being voted. I appeal that the Treasury liaises with the Ministry of Education to see to it that they have up-to-date data of the pupils or students that are in the various schools to avoid inconveniencing head teachers in schools. When it comes to the number of teachers, there is an acute shortage of teachers countrywide. I will not generalise this because I want to be very specific on my constituency, Amagoro. If I may mention St. Paula Amagoro High School in Teso District, which has the same number of streams and pupils with Kamusinga Boys High School in Bungoma, it has only 16 Teachers Service Commission (TSC) teachers. On the other hand, Kamusinga Boys High School has more than 60 TSC teachers. The two schools are expected to give similar results. Therefore, the Government must be having a deliberate move to deny some areas teachers, while favouring others. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would appeal that there should be rationalisation in this Budget, so that those areas that are acutely affected with shortage of teachers at both the primary and secondary levels, like in my area, can be given due consideration. Another area is that of disaster management. You find that some parts of this country have been provided with money to take care of unforeseen situations. Previously,"
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