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    "id": 1092460,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Mohamud",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohamud Sheikh Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I will be short and swift on this point as it has been quite widely discussed by my colleagues. It is very important that we raise the transition of students from primary to secondary school to 100 per cent. It is one of the best things that can happen to the newer generation. I feel that that is important. Unfortunately, the infrastructure has not been in place. We expect our children to transition to another level of education without sufficient facilities available wherever they are transitioning to. Those facilities are not there. I will give you one example. In Wajir South Constituency, there are 11 secondary schools. I decided to add about four more. The unfortunate thing about those 11 secondary schools is that they are widely dispersed. Since Wajir South is the second-largest constituency in the country at 23,000 square kilometres, it becomes quite terrible that we are unable to provide school facilities for our children at every corner of the constituency. One other thing that I want to mention is that the Ministry should improve capitation. Capitation is not enough. We are only being told about capitation that should be supporting schools. Those capitations are meagre. They are not enough to even support and facilitate laboratories that can equip our children to become future scientists who can compete with the rest of the world. You can work towards 100 per cent transition, but do you have the next level where those children can move forward to? In addition to that, when the 100 per cent transition level reaches Form Four or the O- Level, as they used to call it during our time, colleges and universities are not available. That is where our challenges are. Provide transition at 100 per cent. Provide facilities in secondary schools, universities and colleges. If that is not done, this country will be failing future generations. Therefore, future generations are looking forward to seeing legislators in this House legislate on processes where, not only is the budget increased but also the NG-CDF which has done tremendous work in every corner of this country. The amount of the NG-CDF being provided is not sufficient to support schools. I urge that a particular percentage is purposely added for the transition issue. Therefore, I will end by saying that this proposal is quite important. I support it. Thank you very much. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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