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    "id": 1498493,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498493/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "provides for seven lessons per day, resulting in 35 lessons per week, with four breaks, including a daybreak. For junior school (grades seven to nine), the timetable features eight lessons each day, with each lesson lasting 40 minutes. Students complete 41 lessons per week, including pastoral times, and have four breaks each day. Hon. Speaker, I wish to confirm that the official timetable does not accommodate any programs or weekend lessons. Learners are expected to rest on Saturdays, Sundays and on public holidays. Therefore, any instances requiring students to attend school on weekends would be considered irregular. The Ministry will take appropriate corrective action once such cases are reported. In the response, I have provided a table that stipulates what I have just indicated. Due to time constraints, I will not go through it in detail, but it clearly shows that there are 25 lessons per week for pre-primary, 31 lessons for grades one to three, 35 lessons for grades four to six and 41 lessons for junior school. On the question of the book, “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, the mentioned book is not part of the books that have been approved by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) for use in our schools. The regulation on books circulating in Kenya is within the purview of the Ministry of Information, Communication and Digital Economy within the legal framework of the Books and Newspapers Act Cap. 111. We have raised this matter with the Ministry for appropriate action and we will follow up to ensure that the book is deregistered for use in Kenyan schools."
}