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    "speaker_name": "Mr Julius Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": " Yes, Hon. Mbui. I am sorry. I need to go back and study this a little bit more. We are going to bring the safety standards manual here in order to anchor it in law and therefore have the force of law, so that those who are making mistakes or not complying are penalised. With respect to Grade 9 preparedness, we have started the construction of 16,000 classrooms for Grade 9 that have been assessed as required for both the laboratories and classrooms. We are already at various stages of completion. We have classrooms that are at 3 per cent and others at 95 per cent. We are calculating that we will finish 11,000 classrooms probably by mid-November, and thereafter deal with the remainder 3,000 or 4,000. Hon. Speaker, there is an amount that was supposed to come through the NG-CDF. We were supposed to work with you to do some classrooms. We are trying to work with the National Treasury to ensure that money is released to you so that we can construct the 3,400 classrooms that were supposed to be done by the NG-CDF. We are, therefore, working towards achieving and ensuring that by the time we are landing in January, we have all the 16,000 classrooms ready for Grade 9 students who are coming in. I think I have answered the Question by Hon. Taitumu regarding the public schools’ courses costing more than private schools. Sometimes private schools are running a tight ship and have staff that are a little bit more reduced as opposed to public universities. That is why sometimes the cost differs. Hon. Dekow… The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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