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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "per cent transition because it is good. However, the 100 per cent transition must be followed by funding. Unfortunately, something that Hon. Members have accepted, and one Member seems to allude to it, is that we now accept fully that it is the NG-CDF that is supposed to build infrastructure in schools. We are not putting pressure on the national Government to actually do the infrastructural development in our schools. We are just taking that burden continuously without complaining. Actually, the NG-CDF’s contribution to infrastructure development in schools should be very small. In fact, the opposite of what I see happening should be happening. The NG- CDF should be supplementing the national Government’s efforts in school infrastructure development. The situation is worsening. Hon. Speaker, as Hon. Keter said about the situation now, in the next two years, there will be a bombshell coming. That is when the children who are in the so-called “Grade 5” will be transiting to Junior Secondary School, that is, in two years’ time, just at the brim of 2023. The pupils who are now in Standing Six will have done their Standard Eight examination and will be transiting to Form One. We shall have a double intake of Form Ones in the next two years. If we do not develop adequate infrastructure in schools using serious budgeting by this particular House, there will be a disaster when that time comes because there will be no places to accommodate these pupils. In fact, there is nobody, including the Cabinet Secretary, who is ready and who can explain to Kenyans how the two classes will be accommodated in our schools. Some people are thinking that some primary schools will become secondary schools. Others are not even aware of what will happen. So, this is a very serious issue; the early we intervene, the better."
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