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    "id": 112572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/112572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for your support. When Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005 was initiated, we looked at the amount of money that was transmitted in the form of capitation to all the schools in each province in the next five years. That was from 2005 to 2008. I have already tabled the details to the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. I will give you an example. Western Province received the highest amount of money in terms of capitation under the Free Primary Education Programme (FPE). It received Kshs1.65 billion and when we disaggregated the amount of money going to each district within that province, it was realized that Kakamega District received the highest amount of money amounting to Kshs328 million which represented 19.8 per cent of all the money that was disbursed to that province. Therefore, it was important for the Ministry to ensure that other districts within that province received the necessary amounts of money. This was not in the Budget. A total of Kshs1.12 billion went to Nyanza Province from 2005 to 2008. The amount of money that was disbursed to Kisii districts in the five years was Kshs188 million. The remaining Kshs1 billion was disbursed to the districts in Luo Nyanza. A similar process was observed in Rift Valley Province. When we looked at the policy, we found that when it was started, there were only 71 districts that had been earmarked to receive the funds for development. Since then, there have been many other districts. This money was not captured in the Budget. Fortunately, this was Phase III of the project. We had gone through Phases I, II and III which supported the original 71 districts. We made a windfall from the exchange rates when we got the pool funds from the partners. Whereas the exchange rate at the time the money was negotiated was Kshs76 to the dollar, when the money was disbursed to us, the exchange rate was slightly above Kshs80 to the dollar. We made a saving of Kshs359 million. Over and above that, we also took savings from the Ministry of Education of Kshs270 million and added to the Kshs359 million. That made a total of over Kshs600 million which we distributed to all the other districts as a first one-off tranche. Whereas the 71 districts continued getting their normal budgeted provisions, we made a one-off support to all the schools in the other districts which were not captured. We looked forward to once again, under Phase IV, recruit all the districts in Kenya to be at par with the districts that have enjoyed this facility in the last five years. That will address the issues of access, equity and quality. If you cannot address that aspect, it cannot be done. For some mischievous reasons, somebody decided to think that I poured money in Kisii. In fact, they should have said---"
}