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    "id": 144421,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "The concern that we have today is that the state of our public primary and secondary schools is wanting in terms of development. Most schools are poorly constructed. Some of the buildings are made of mud and yet as a country, we keep talking about realizing the Vision 2030. We cannot talk of realizing Vision 2030 if at that time, we shall still be having some of our schools made of mud. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, most of our public primary schools are seriously under-staffed. These are the schools where the children of the poor go to. It is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently by us as leaders. As a result of the introduction of free primary education we have serious overcrowding in the primary schools. We should not rest, sit back and watch and assume that all is well when in one class we have over 80 pupils being assisted by one single teacher. Most of the academies are boarding schools. So, the distance between the boarding section and the classrooms is very small. As a country, we have not addressed the need to keep construction in many public primary schools in order to ensure access. We still have so many children in today’s Kenya who walk for five kilometres to the nearest school. These are issues that need to be addressed if we really want to bring out the leaders of this country from among all the population. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, most of the academies also have an attachment of a nursery section but the public primary schools do not have the nursery section. This is something that needs to be addressed because the foundation of education begins from the nursery school. Therefore, many Kenyans are disadvantaged especially when they started school in Standard One before going through nursery school. As leaders, we must inject more money into these schools if we really mean well for the majority of Kenyans today. The offer of free primary and secondary education is not enough. The introduction of free primary and secondary education has seen this country’s budget on education go up. We should not just be spending money every year and not looking at the output from these schools. We ought to ensure that what we invest,"
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