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    "id": 1474801,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1474801/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorothy Muthoni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will start by saying that the success of any progressive nation lies in its education systems. I want to challenge the Minister and his team seated here. If there is a Ministry that is well-structured, where a Minister can sit down and at the click of a button access all the information that he likes, it is the Ministry of Education. The data that the Cabinet Secretary is purporting not to have is there. I have been a primary school teacher. The data on school enrolment is put in a system right from day one. As a teacher, I can tell the number of students in a school, even in class one. That is the case in every part of this country. The excuse of the data not being available is not acceptable. If they want to get the best testing tool for this funding model, they can get that information from our schools. Teachers know a child who sleeps hungry. They can tell you a child who has no father, a child who is a total orphan and a child who has well to do parents. So, the data can be accessed in schools. There is no need for exploring scientific ways of mining data for this funding model. This data can be accessed in schools. My Question is on the TVET institutions. I want to thank the Principal Secretary, State Department for Technical, Vocational Education and Training in the Ministry of Education because she is always available to answer questions when required to do so. We are now in the fourth quarter but to-date, the TVET institutions have not got a single cent. The number of students in those institutions is very low. If possible, there should be a mechanism for allowing principals to charge some little money for operations so that at the end of the day we do not have a replica of what happened yesterday at the Multimedia University, where there was no water and electricity. What is the Ministry doing to ensure that the capitation is released in our schools at the earliest opportunity so that teachers do not suffer?"
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