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    "id": 1092421,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support this Petition by Hon. Alfred Keter, Member for Nandi Hills. What we demand is transparency, especially on the Ministry’s Budget for supporting school’s infrastructure. Many Members do not even understand how much has been released to which school within their constituency. They do not know whether every school in the Republic of Kenya is supported and whether that money is distributed fairly. It will be important that the Chair makes sure that the Ministry gives us a table of how much it has been awarded for school infrastructure development, say, in Endebess or in any other constituency. It will be of interest to Members to see a tabulation indicating which school got what amount of money. Hon. Speaker, I also support the sentiments by Hon. Jared Okelo. The Chair of the Constituency Development Fund Committee, who happens to be my neighbour and the leader for FORD-K, should have tabled the estimates showing how much money each constituency has been allocated in this Financial Year so that we work on our proposals and make sure that the proposals are submitted. That is what our Fund Managers are waiting for. So, Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, please, with your Committee, table those estimates so that we can act on them. Lastly, the biggest challenge is the issue of registration of schools. Registration of new secondary or primary schools should not be a favour. The Ministry should stop freezing registration of new schools. It is forcing Members to seek registration of new schools as if it is favour. It is not a favour to us. We feel that there are areas where a need has arisen for registration of new schools. In my constituency, I have built three new primary schools and three new secondary schools, but, as we speak, some of those schools do not have teachers from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) yet there are pupils who are learning there. We have pupils at Chepkilot, Lutaso, Chepchoina, Kietkei and many other schools within those areas. How do we expect those pupils to compete effectively with pupils who are at Alliance High School or Starehe Boys Centre or any other national school? So, it is important that these matters are taken very seriously. As we have 100 per cent transition of pupils from primary to secondary school, we should develop adequate infrastructure at the secondary school level to accommodate more pupils. Since we have created that infrastructure in the form of new secondary schools, the Ministry of Education should register those schools so that pupils can learn properly and have the necessary teachers to guide them. I thank you."
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