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    "id": 1095938,
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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": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a very frustrating issue. Therefore, the Question asked by the Member is very relevant. There is a problem with the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Education. He is trying to relate the number of teachers in schools viz-à-viz the number of schools that should be available. He seems to be moderating the number of schools in the country with the number of teachers who are employed by the TSC. The truth of the matter is that majority of the schools have teachers employed by their Boards of Management (BoMs) and the parents themselves. Therefore, the Cabinet Secretary should completely stop relating the number of teachers employed by the TSC with the number of schools in the country. The Cabinet Secretary must go to the ground to appreciate the situation. He was personally pushed through the issue of 100 per cent transition from primary school to secondary school. Many students are now transiting from Class Eight to Form One. Therefore, both primary and secondary schools need to be expanded because education is now free and compulsory. Hon. Members have built schools. When the COVID-19 struck, the President, in his address, together with the Cabinet Secretary, said that the NG-CDF should help in improving and expanding school infrastructure. The so-called “infrastructure” are the schools that are now not being registered by the Ministry of Education. Hon. Members are really suffering because of this suspension. Furthermore, the Cabinet Secretary is reducing even the number of examination centres amid COVID-19, meaning that he wants students to be squeezed even more as they take examinations. The Cabinet Secretary for Education must be called to order. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research and my Chairperson is not here, but indeed, the Cabinet Secretary has to be called to order to understand that with 100 per cent transition, schools must be registered as they come up. Indeed, he has to be called to order to understand that with the 100 per cent transition, schools must be registered as they come. There is no relationship between governability of the TSC teachers and the schools that crop up because there are over 300,000 trained teachers in the field who can serve. Thank you."
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