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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "to Grade Four and a secondary school up to Form Three and yet it is not registered. We have since given new guidelines, where we are speeding up the registration of schools. If AJK is a registered school, as you have requested, we will be able to work on it. If it is not registered, then we will ensure that it is registered. We will also look at the number of teachers that we have in this school. I am sure we will be able to do something. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was in Kilifi County and I am sure the Hon. Senator is aware. We went to St. Thomas Girls’ Secondary School. It is one of the top schools, not only in Kilifi County, but in the whole country. We are doing something. I also went to a number of other schools. I thank the Sen. Mandago because he is not from Kilifi County, but he brought to my notice a school in Kilifi County, which is very needy. During this financial year, that particular school is in the programme of being funded from the Infrastructure Funds. The money will be in the schoool’s account before Friday this week because we have received funds from the National Treasury. The last question was why we had to take the contaminated maize, rice and beans all the way from Kakamega County to Bamburi Cement Company. Initially, I was also asking the same question. I found out from our experts in the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and public health, that the only area that we have a facility for disposal and dispensing these foods was Bamburi Cement Company. The whole of western region and Nairobi City County does not have that kind of facility for disposing off. Bamburi Cement Company has a very good facility for disposal. Initially, I thought it was something easy. Out of the experience which we have had in Mukumu Girls’ High School, we are advising schools not to be buying maize, beans and rice that lasts the entire term. They had very big quantities that would have lasted the entire term. Mr. Speaker, Sir, also, the kind of preservatives being used is one other thing that brought many problems. We are also checking on that. Out of that experience, we are escalating to all the schools nationally, so that our county directors, public health workers and experts are able to check on this. We have had meetings with the county directors of education and we are really following up on this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it was out of the recommendation from experts. We were informed that Bamburi Cement Company was the only facility where we could have it destroyed. We did not want to have the kind of a situation, which we are hearing, that there was something contaminated somewhere, but it got into our market. We did not want the cereals stored somewhere and then after a few days, you find the same maize, rice and beans in the market. We wanted it disposed of as soon as possible and expeditiously so."
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