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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "I rise to support this Motion. I appreciate and congratulate Hon. Ruku. There are times when we put aside politics and look at the welfare of the nation. This is one such time. Hon. Ruku is asking us to develop policy guidelines and implementation framework for a project where pupils are already in class. How far can you go by putting the cart before the horse? It is even shameful that we are talking about this when children are already in class. If we are still talking about policy guidelines and implementation framework, do we even have an implementation timeline on how those children will move from one class to another? Members have been proposing how the children should move, but those are things that should have been done before the programme was started. This is about planning and making things work. It is not about impressing people. There is a difference. If you were looking for votes, yes it would work. However, if we want to educate our children, we must take the direction that Hon. Ruku is proposing. This should have happened earlier. Do we know the infrastructure needs in schools? Classrooms were built in secondary schools and yet, JSS students are now in primary schools. I know there is transition, but that is an issue I will talk to later. What about the human resource? It is being said that some retired teachers were re-hired. It does not matter that they are trained, but do we know their needs? What about the financial needs? How were schools picked to house JSS? In my constituency, a large number of primary schools, nearly half, do not have JSS. How were the number of pupils in the identified schools used for planning financial needs? When I asked that I was told that the Ministry looked at the number of children who were in Standard Six; but when you The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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