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    "id": 1214541,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of the CBC has been there for a while. We have had discussions even when I was a Member of the National Assembly. The former Nominated Member of Parliament (MP) who was the Secretary General (SG) of the Kenya National Union of Teacher (KNUT), Hon. Sossion, was against CBC and it appears we did not listen as a country. Recently, Grade 7 pupils were admitted in our primary schools. It is like there are two schools within a primary school. We have junior secondary school and primary school. We do not even know the principals of junior secondary schools. Are they heads of primary schools? As the Chair of the Committee on Education has said, next time we will have Grade 8 and eventually Grade 9. By the time they will be in Grade 9, still we will have those in Grade 6. Still, there will be junior secondary schools beginning from Grades 7 up to 9. How will the schools be run? Such are issues we need to discuss. Last year the Government spent a lot of money to put up extra classrooms in all our secondary schools in preparation for junior secondary schools. However, because of the experts’ report that we domicile junior secondary schools in primary schools because of their age, those classes are already in our secondary schools, but there are no classrooms in primary schools. In the next budget or even in the supplementary budget that is being discussed by Members of the National Assembly, they should ensure that some resources are given to our primary schools to put up classes and laboratories. You cannot teach physics, chemistry or biology in junior secondary school in a primary school without a laboratory. These are issues we need to discuss with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Ministry of Education, so that they allocate resources. Finally, on the second Statement by Sen. Cherarkey regarding the drought across the country, there are many counties that are not classifies as Arid and Semi- Arid Lands (ASALs). Elgeyo-Marakwet County is not classified as an ASAL. We have had problems of insecurity along Kerio Valley and we have not accessed relief food."
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