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    "id": 1275158,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": "by KISE indicated a figure of 11 per cent. That is why I said that we are doing a survey this particular year which will give us the very accurate figures. We seem to have the figures, but we just need to come up with real and accurate figures. That is why we have tasked the county director and the deputy county directors of education to undertake the same. I hope with the little resources given to us this year, the Kshs14 million, we should be able to undertake that particular assignment. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I must admit that we have not been very effective in home- based care. That is an area we want to move into, moving forward because we have done well in those institutional-based care. However, we are supposed to go further than that. As the policy says, we need to cater for those home-based. That is why we are carrying out that survey. On allocation of funding, you know out of capitation that we give if it is in junior secondary, the Kshs15,040 is for a normal child, but we give more for the disabled. For senior secondary, we give the normal student Kshs22,240 while the disabled are given between Kshs35,000 to Kshs37,000 because of their special needs. Right now, we do not have specific figures for Tana River County. However, for the rest of the country, I undertake that we will take necessary measures. This is because one other area that is properly captured in the Presidential Working Party Report is on children with special needs. The Government has said it will put a lot of emphasis on and allocate more resources going forward."
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