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    "id": 1472625,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1472625/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
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    "content": "In addition to the infrastructure of the classrooms, there are no adequate teachers. The teachers in the Junior Secondary Schools are employed by the Board of Management (BoM). Parents are struggling to get that little money to pay those teachers who are teaching there. Now we hear that there is free education. We cannot have free education when teachers are being paid by parents because TSC has not sent teachers to some places. We do not have enough laboratories for CBC practicals. We do not have them because we have no money. The NG-CDF money has not been disbursed adequately to cater for infrastructure. They are not there. The only problem our children have been exposed to is that the tribunals which have been formed to look at the models of education have been based in urban areas. The elites have never included anybody from rural areas so that, at least, they can come up with an idea of what afflicts rural areas. What they come up with is only practicable in urban areas. When it comes to rural areas, it is not very much effective. You find that life is very easy for those living in towns, but for those living in rural areas, it is a challenge. It is not possible for CBC to be implemented as smoothly as it is supposed to be. It is somehow very difficult and challenging to the students in rural constituencies compared to those in urban areas. But here we are, faced with a serious challenge of infrastructure. In the secondary schools which have been existing, the previous government set up funds to put up two extra classes for CBC. Other than those two classes, there are empty classes which have been left by Form 1 students because we will not have Form 1 next year. So there are three empty classes in secondary schools. What do we do about them so that they can be occupied by Grade 9? By having direct transition to secondary schools, we are going to solve a big problem which exists. Money which put up those classes is ours. Students are ours. It is the same in Kenya. Why can we not address it in that form, where the Executive and Parliament put their heads together to have a very good solution for the problem facing us?"
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