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    "id": 1380629,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "compliant, properly serviced and meets the required standards before the children are taken out. We have strict timelines on when they should start and end the journey because we do not allow them to travel at night. We are also working with the police on the incident that happened in Murang’a and I am sure once we compare our notes, we are going to get answers on whether the driver diverted and did other things. There is an element of criminality in this because it might not only be a disciplinary action, but someone will have to be taken to court, as we cannot allow this. For the affected families, unfortunately, as a Ministry, we do not have funds to assist them when they lose their loved ones. Sometimes, I fundraise amongst my officers to help those families. In most cases, you will hear my contribution, which is not money from the Ministry. We assist them with the transportation of the bodies and buy coffins to ease the burden for the affected families. We cannot use money that has not been allocated to us by Parliament to deal with this because that vote is not given to us. Every holiday, we train a number of teachers, particularly our principals and administrators, at the Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) and the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA). We train them in some of those issues we are talking about here so that they know and are well-equipped to manage our institutions better. We continuously monitor them even after the training. We have either physical or virtual meetings weekly. We have divided the country into eight regions. You will see me moving around with the regional directors in every area. We aim to cover critical issues with our officers, who then enforce them because they represent us in all parts of the country. With that, I submit."
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