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    "id": 112539,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/112539/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Mr. Namwamba wanted to know whether we have made any proposals to Treasury as they prepare Supplementary Budget. Yes, in the current budgetary proposals, we have made very firm proposals. We have no intention of perpetuating this crisis beyond what we can bear. I think the limitation has been on the ceilings that we are given on the budgets. I took the earliest opportunity when we met the Executive Board of World Bank last week and I told them that one of the impediments for us to reach teacher-pupil ratio in our institutions has been the ceiling normally placed on us by the so called Bretton Woods institutions. Therefore, we are not even able to fill those positions. Therefore, this is giving us difficulties in trying to fill positions, at least over a period of time. Indeed, the Budget cannot absorb all of it. Currently, the Ministry of Education, in terms of Teachers Service Commission (TSC) on salaries alone, takes Kshs93 billion to pay teachers. The total budget is about Kshs137 billion, and when you take the other services required by the Ministry of Education, it becomes very difficult to be able to employ even more teachers. But we are working out a formula, with the concurrence of the Treasury and this House. We hope that we will, at least, address this problem once and for all."
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