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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "school. Where does the money go? Let every child in this country be counted, so that we itemise the budget here and say we are now giving capitation of one or two million children. We know this is the amount they are taking and this will support the education system. The other thing I need the Ministry to do now is to tell us we have teachers who have gone. Most of them are in arts subjects and humanities. How do we support these teachers to go back for a refresher course so that those who want to teach science can now go and teach it so that we get more science teachers? I understand we do not even have enough. If we do not even have and CBC is science, how are we moving on? While we celebrate, I want to thank everyone. Indeed, let us start at the right slate in the education system that we are going into. Let us not make the mistakes we have made. I have seen too many mistakes in the last system where you cannot understand a number of books. Parents today wake up and are supposed to do this and that. Also, why can we not look in our secondary schools? This is because, I can see many secondary schools claim that students lack fees and parents are crying, yet there is that standard of school fees that every child is able to pay. If a school is able to run with that amount, why is it that you will force a school to have school fees of Ksh25,000, yet you know very well most parents are paying Ksh16,000? Why can the Ministry not look at that and standardise where you know parents are able to pay so that schools do not have pending bills, yet they are able to move and operate. You even wonder whether it is viable. What is viable is what we need to use. This is something the Ministry should help us. Another thing that the Ministry should look at, for example, is in Nairobi I have 24 schools, but nearly how many students are there? Beyond 40,000 or 50,000. You cannot tell me because I have those, you will start giving me the capitation of building classrooms because of the number of schools I have. It is wrong. You should be looking at the number of students I have. This is one thing we should be pushing. I understand we have 6,500 schools with less than 100 students. Honestly, Hon. Members even us, we should question ourselves. We made a mistake to build more schools, yet we do not have enough teachers and students. We have spent money and now we are supposed to ensure these schools are sustainable. As I finalise, I want to really thank the Americans for voting for Trump to finish the culture of what our children have been crying for; a culture that is not our culture, and now America has awakened. Thank you."
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