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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. 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. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the shortage of classrooms is a known fact. I want to thank hon. Members because they are helping us through the CDF to build more classrooms. Under the budget of infrastructure programme, we can only do so much. We cannot do more than what we are allocated in the Budget. Therefore, the supplement that we get from the CDF through hon. Members has enabled us to build enough classrooms for us to absorb more students in secondary schools. The only comfort is that the transition rate from primary school to secondary school has risen from 46.4 per cent to between 68.4 per cent and 70 per cent. With regard to Mr. Koech’s question, he knows that we have discussed this matter in the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology which he chairs. It is my anticipation that it will feature prominently in the Report before the House. This is because we must address the question of shortage of teachers not in the manner in which we are trying to approach it. As a Ministry, we have made a request to the Treasury that what would satisfy us is the employment of a minimum of 10,000 permanent and pensionable teachers every year. In the last Budget, we quoted 10,000 teachers. We expected to hire 6,000 teachers, but they never made any allocation. So, this is a matter I will seek the support of this House so that we can move forward."
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