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    "id": 1194275,
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    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Abdul Haro",
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    "content": "order to employ untrained teachers to cover the curriculum. The idea that many Kenyans, especially the NGOs, have promoted education to equate to the NG-CDF managed by MPs is a fallacy. The NG-CDF is resources and money that is decentralised and used in the 290 constituencies. It is used to help beneficiaries who are our constituents, communities, schools, police posts, and police lines. I think the lacuna we have in the disbursement of the NG-CDF has really caused a lot of suffering. For example in Mandera South Constituency where I come from, I receive calls every day. Students are reporting to have been sent home because of lack of school fees. Students have been reporting they are missing their exams because they have been told they cannot do exams because they have many fee balances. For example, I know one student in a Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) who has been forced to defer courses because of inability to report for the semester because of lack of school fees. Some students have decided to drop out of school completely. They are unable to pay school fees. I know of schools with only two toilets and 1,000 students in my constituency. When you go there in the morning, you see girls and boys lining up to use that facility. Those needs are increasing every day. We have schools where students are sitting on floors, without desks and seats. I can only imagine what will happen come January when they will be having double intake. We have sixth graders graduating to junior secondary and the class eights going to form one. It can only be chaotic. Since these needs are increasing, teachers, parents and students are worried. We need the NG-CDF as we wait for this legislative proposal process of amending the Constitution to go through. We ask the CS of the National Treasury to release the NG-CDF funds immediately so that we continue meeting the needs of our constituents. These needs are increasing by the day. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the time."
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