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    "id": 1462321,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "when they are recess, on the allocation of scholarships and bursaries by county governments. I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT AWARE THAT, the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution distributes functions and powers between the National and County Governments with paragraph 16 of Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule providing that the national Government shall be responsible for university and tertiary education institutions, other institutions of research and higher learning and primary schools, secondary schools and special education institutions; FURTHER AWARE THAT, paragraph 9 of Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution confers to county governments the responsibility to provide pre-primary education and other facilities such as village polytechnics, homecraft centres and childcare facilities; CONCERNED THAT notwithstanding the provisions of the aforementioned Schedule of the Constitution, the quality of pre-primary education remains low as a result of poor infrastructure with majority of the counties paying teachers in such facilities below the gazetted minimum wage; FURTHER CONCERNED THAT, the Report by the Office of the Controller of Budget on County Governments Budget Implementation Review for the first six months of Financial Year 2023/2024 indicate that allocation to the Education Sector in all the 47 counties range between 0.7 per cent to 10.3 per cent of their total budgets, and that a majority of the county governments spend a great percentage of the education sector budgets on provision of scholarships and bursaries to students in secondary and tertiary institutions, with some counties allocating up to 84 per cent of their education budgets for such scholarships at the expense of the core mandate of providing quality preprimary education and improving infrastructure in the village polytechnics and homecraft centres; NOW THEREFORE, THE SENATE RESOLVES THAT – (1) the County Governments stop funding national Government functions such as providing scholarships to students in secondary and tertiary institutions, and increase funding to pre-primary education, village polytechnics and homecraft centres for improvement of infrastructure and payment of better wages to teachers in such facilities; (2) the Controller of Budget (CoB) ensures compliance and not approve monies to county governments for carrying out functions of the national Government; and, (3) the Auditor-General reports on compliance status on funding of national Government functions by the county governments in the annual reports. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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