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    "id": 1249139,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "Ksh2,542,000,000. A number of those classrooms are complete. A few are not complete, and we hope that before the end of the financial year, they will be complete. For Bonchari Constituency, the status is as given in the table. Botoro Secondary is 80 per cent complete; Ekerubo is about 90 per cent complete; St. Andrew’s Mogumo, one classroom is complete and the other one is 75 per cent complete; St. Ann’s Nyangoge, two classrooms are complete; St. Charles Lwanga Gesero, one classroom is complete; St. Francis Nyasagati is complete; St Peter’s Suneka is complete and St. Vincent Omwari is complete. On the second part of the Question, we are expecting that the schools will be completed before 30th June. The Ministry is supposed to pay a total of Ksh12,611,521 for the secondary schools that have been completed. As you are aware, the total cost of constructing a classroom is Kshs788,221. We are yet to pay the contractors not only in Bonchari, but also in other constituencies. We are expecting that the national Treasury will give us Ksh2.5 billion to make payments before the end of the financial year so that we do not carry it over as a pending bill. On the third part of the Question, there are 56 Junior Secondary Schools in Bonchari Constituency with a total of 3,899 learners. Generally, each of the schools has one classroom for grade 7 learners. We have a shortage of 22 classrooms. I request that we partner with the Members of Parliament. We are making an engagement with the World Bank. Hopefully, we will get funds and do integrated resource centres and sanitation facilities in some of the schools. Again, as you access your NG-CDF – the shortage in your constituency is only 22 classrooms – we can partner so that you do part of the classrooms and once we access our funds, we also do a few. Thank you."
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