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    "id": 1240193,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1240193/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "With regard to infrastructure funds, Members, you are aware that the amount you have given us for the primary section this financial year is Ksh140 million for all our primary schools. You can imagine the number of primary schools we have in the country. They are about 24,000. We said, as much as possible, the criteria we follow is that we must consider equity and a little bit of affirmative action. This is because there are areas in this country that you go to and wonder what happened. When others have done very well with the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) in putting up classrooms, there are areas where there are no classrooms. There is a school somewhere in Kilifi where a Member came to us and we are giving money. I cannot remember the name of the school. It is in a pathetic situation. We consider equity and make sure that every constituency gets an equal share of this money, even if it is Ksh1,000,000 each. That is what we do. Going forward, we will be involving you more in allocating this money. You can see that it is a small amount of money. Even the one given to secondary schools is about Ksh900,000,000. In total, it is Ksh900,000,000 plus Ksh140,000,000. You can see that the amount is very little considering the number of primary and secondary schools in the entire country."
}