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    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nabii Nabwera",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, I associate myself with the remarks by one CNN, that the World Order by the act of the Americans is poised to change. I am excited that the war in the Middle East will end. I am excited that the children in Russia and Ukraine will go to school. I am excited that our Armed Forces in Haiti will come back home. Let me move on to support the Motion by saying that our Constitution 2010 recognises education as a right. If you read the Constitution properly, you will agree with me that it goes further to give a status of education in the Constitution. That it is not only a social right, but one that also enables economic rights in the Constitution. Therefore, it is an enabler of attaining other rights as provided for in our Constitution. I have listened to the debate since yesterday, and I just want to take it further. Maybe we need to be talking about making education really free, from Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) to university. Allow me to share with you figures which I have tried to work out. In our current budget, we have an allocation of about Ksh608 billion for education. The areas of shortfall are: One, having enough capitation that will allow our children to learn free. Two, having enough money to employ enough teachers. Three, having enough money for university funding to make it free. As I go into my figures, I remind my colleagues and the country that with its 467 million students, education in China is almost free. It is funded by the State up to 92.67 per cent. We just have a fraction of that. What do we need to do if we were to make education free from ECDE to university? We will need an extra Ksh46 billion for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). That will be enough to employ the teachers that we are looking for; for JSS, primary schools and secondary schools. We will need another Ksh8.2 billion as a conditional grant to the counties to go to ECDE so that we can employ ECDE teachers properly. You will need another Ksh76.8 billion to go to the university funding. The animal in this House is on management of infrastructure in schools. The Cabinet Secretary for Education has really underperformed. The Ministry has discriminated some areas. If we were to organise the infrastructure in schools, and I speak this from a point of knowledge, you will need another Ksh34 billion to be given as conditional grant to NG-CDF. You will have all the classrooms you need in this country; proper classrooms. You will also have all the resource centres you need. You will need another Ksh9 billion towards resourcing the laboratories and libraries in Junior Secondary Schools and in secondary schools. In a nutshell, you need to grow our budget from Ksh680 to Ksh936 billion, and this is affordable. With that, you will provide free education. In my view, we will not be asking too much from a budget of Ksh4 trillion, to give an enabler and an equaliser sector that amount of money. If I can recall, this country has money for bursary that is currently in excess of Ksh12 billion being managed by the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation. But if I ask Members in this House if they know the number of children in their villages who are benefiting from that, I am sure 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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