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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. After Sen. Kajwang’ congratulated us, I thought he was going to retain that congratulation, but he congratulated us and took it away immediately. However, we are not completely clueless. We are quite informed on KPSEA, and as I earlier indicated, there is in existence Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019 on the policy framework for reforming education and framing for sustainable development. There is also another policy that deals with curriculum policies, basic education policy, basic assessment policy and they are a number. We are coalescing all these ones into one policy so that we have everything in one system so that it is easier to be clear about what we are doing. Therefore, we are not completely clueless and I hope he retains those congratulations. To Sen. Cheptumo, we are going to try and raise this issue of infrastructure in the supplementary budget. This is because there were issues and challenges with the Finance Bill which has brought in more challenges in that space. However, when we do the next supplementary in the coming month, we will bring this to the attention of Parliament so that we can get a budget in order to undertake these exercises. The Kshs10 million that was promised has already been disbursed. I have just been informed that and that is a good thing. Then I could not agree more with Sen. Mumma on her question regarding laptops and getting all those funds. We are going to do as directed and we are going to try and get all these funds together and then submit a list of how many funds and bursaries are in the Ministry that deals with education, then we can submit that to ensure that we are clear and then have that conversation together. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is the question of Bomet University. We had allocated funds in the budget for Bomet University but when the budget was rationalized this year again because of the Finance Bill of 2024/2025, it was rationalized to zero. We shall, therefore, try again and work backwards and see how much can be allocated for us to be able to complete that. There are many, instances where this has happened. We are going to continue working. We have a number of ongoing capital projects across 38 universities that amount to 62 and we are therefore working to ensure that that figure is included in the supplementary budget. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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