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"speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you all know, this Question was answered some time back, but because of supplementary questions that came up on the Floor, additional information was needed as follows:- (a) List of low cost boarding schools established. (b) The list of schools that have benefitted from various funds like the infrastructure funds, the bursaries given to the girls, the total amounts and the total number of girls who have benefitted. (c) Teachers’ situation, establishment, teachers on duty and the shortage. (d) People from the counties who have been trained as teachers and the number that has been hired and the number of the early childhood development (ECD) teachers and who pays them. I will answer as follows:- (i) With regard to the number of low cost boarding schools, we have 60 of them, namely, 30 in Isiolo and 30 in Marsabit. (ii) The schools that have benefited from the various funds are as follows:- With regard to infrastructure funding, there are 22 primary schools in Marsabit County that are on the regular infrastructure programme while in Isiolo County, there are six schools which are benefitting from one of the disbursement programmes, which list I will table here. We have 28 local boarding schools in Marsabit County, and nine in Isiolo County, which are funded under this programme and are also in this list. With regard to the Free Primary Education Programme, (FPEP) public primary schools have benefitted from FPEP since its inception. For instance, 103 primary schools in Marsabit County have received both Account I and Account II of the last tranche of 2010/2011 FPE in May and in Isiolo, 84 primary schools have received their money. (iii) With regard to the Government of Kenya and OPEC funding, 11 schools in Marsabit County have received a total of Kshs32,870,000 up to 2010/2011 while five schools in Isiolo have received Kshs14,000,380. This is also in the list which I will table. (iv) With regard to the modern primary school funding, eight primary schools in Marsabit County and four schools in Isiolo County have received Kshs3.5 million each under this programme. (v) Under the tree planting programme, 56 schools in Marsabit County and 40 schools in Isiolo County received Kshs60,000 each for tree planting projects. This is also in the list. (vi) With regard to secondary schools under the infrastructure funding, Marsabit County has received a total of Kshs3.734 million for three schools under this project, while in Isiolo County, six schools have been funded with the same amount. Under the laboratory equipment funds, seven schools in Marsabit County obtained laboratory equipment funds to the tune of Kshs148,460 each in the Financial Year 2010/2011 while five schools in Isiolo County benefited from the same amount as per the attached list. Under the ASAL grants, in the Financial Year 2010/2011, four schools in Marsabit County received Kshs133, 300 each while three schools in Isiolo County got the same amount. Under the Free Day Secondary Education Programme, secondary schools in Marsabit and Isiolo counties have been receiving these funds since the inception of the programme in 2008. For instance, Marsabit County received a total of Kshs33,925, 069 while Isiolo received a total of Kshs18,038,622 in the Financial Year 2010/2011. Under the Centres of Excellence Programme, each of the constituencies in the counties received Kshs30 million. The Marsabit County’s four constituencies got a total of Kshs120 million which funded four secondary schools while Isiolo’s two constituencies received Kshs60 million, which funded two secondary schools. The constituency bursaries given to the girls in the two counties in the financial years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 were as shown in the list which I think the Member has. I really do not need to read it."
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