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    "id": 1058300,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research regarding the provision of school desks to various learning institutions in the country under the Economic Stimulus Programme. In the recent past, the Government allocated Kshs1.9 billion for the purchase of about 625,000 locally assembled desks to both public primary and secondary schools. The allocations were under the Kshs53.7 billion eight-point economic stimulus package unveiled by His Excellency the President in May 2020 to alleviate the effects of the Corona pandemic on the economy and support local artisans who constitute the largest part of the jobless graduates in our country. In as far as I appreciate the efforts by the Government to support learning and school infrastructure in the country, it is our responsibility as legislators to ensure that those allocations are used prudently. It is against this background that I seek a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research on the following: (i) Could the Chairperson provide a list of all learning institutions that benefitted from the programme and the number of desks allocated to each constituency? (ii) Could the Chairperson provide a list of all artisans who delivered the 625,000 desks to various learning institutions in the country and their payment details? (iii) Could the Chairperson explain and cite whether the Kshs1.9 billion was factored in the budgetary allocation of 2019/2020 or the supplementary estimates that the House has approved?"
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