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    "id": 1456632,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": " I could have donated one minute. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for according me the opportunity to contribute to these Supplementary Estimates. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I laud the Budget and Appropriation Committee for going back to the drawing board and managing to come up with a lean budget. From academia, I am happy that, at least, the education budget was retained at Ksh650 billion. That is very important because of the implementation of the competence-based curriculum. It is at its very critical stage and if it is not well resourced, the effects will be felt in future. So, I am very happy that we have money for education. We also have intern teachers who have been on the streets protesting. I am happy that, not only a few of them, but all of them are going to be employed. We will have all the 46,000 intern teachers employed on permanent and pensionable terms. I want to encourage the Teachers Service Commission to regularise the internship procedures so that the courts do not declare them illegal. They should look at their policies very well so that the intern teachers are acceptable just like any other intern in other ministries. Internship is a very good learning process. It enables those who have just come out of colleges to have hands-on skills that will help them to fit in the job market. I also support these Supplementary Estimates because of the School Feeding Programme. Initially, there were fears that that Programme was going to be scrapped. I am happy that it has been retained. Most of the students who were beneficiaries of that Programme come from very vulnerable regions. So, it will go a long way to ensure that the children are retained in school and there is good enrolment of learners. As you know, education is an equaliser. I am sure that most people are where they are in life today because they made a choice to go to school. Education is the reason for who they are today. What I would encourage in future in the Supplementary Estimates is that we relook at the School Feeding Programme and include every other child in Kenya. It should be spread widely. At the moment, it is just for the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). There are other regions in urban areas where we still have people who are living in very difficult conditions. Their children should be included in the School Feeding Programme. I am also happy that there will be capacity building for farmers. We have..."
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