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    "id": 1092458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": "The other challenge we have is teaching. There are certain regulations that the Ministry of Education is trying to bring on board without considering the challenges that we have in terms of teacher-student ratio. The Teachers Service Commission has scrapped Primary Teacher 1 (P1) cadre. We no longer have P1 teachers. That means those children who were able to attend P1 courses because of their poor grades in KCSE can no longer go for P1 teaching courses. They have to qualify for diploma courses and above. These new policies being implemented by the Ministry of Education have negated our chances of getting adequate teachers in our areas. Insecurity has also affected us such that we are not able to attract teachers from other parts of the country to teach in our schools. This has been a big challenge to us as Members of Parliament in trying to use the NG-CDF. The NG-CDF money has not been coming in regularly. As we take an audit of disbursements of NG-CDF monies, at the closure of the last financial year, we had about Kshs26 million or Kshs30 million which up to now has not been disbursed by NG-CDF secretariat. We have crossed to a new financial year with a backlog of undisbursed sum of Kshs30 million. We urge the Committee and the Chair of the NG-CDF Board to make sure that there is frequent disbursement so that we meet our obligation as Members of Parliament. That way, we will be able to support learners through disbursement of bursaries and construction of schools. Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity."
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