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    "speaker_name": "Matayos, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Odanga",
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    "content": "Looking at the numbers of pupils and students that are provided by the Cabinet Secretary, this comes to over 200,000 learners countrywide. I am not satisfied that there are only 81 secondary school SNE institutions. If that is true, then I think Kenyans are being starved of SNE institutions in the country and something needs to be done to improve that. If you have over 200,000 pupils mainly in primary and only 81 secondary SNE schools, that means that pupils who complete primary in special needs education are disappearing somewhere. This needs to be addressed by the Cabinet Secretary. There are also issues in number two when you look at the ratio of pupils or students to teachers. For a mentally handicapped institution to have a ratio of 1:10, this is far below par and needs to be addressed. Those are mentally handicapped children having one teacher handling 10 of them, and then there is something totally wrong that needs to be addressed urgently. The ratio is far too low and this needs to be addressed. Many teachers who have transited from ordinary schools to special needs’ institutions, as the Cabinet Secretary has said, are paid some allowances which are not paid on time. I am even bothered why some aspects of the trainers are handled by the TSC while others are handled by the Ministry. Why can they not all go to the TSC, so that they are handled in one place? Issues like approving and moving them from ordinary schools to special needs and their budget is being handled at the Ministry. That needs to be addressed to make sure that those teachers are supported and given their allowances. You can imagine the children they are handling. They take them for sports, teach them throughout and then they are not given their allowances on time. Furthermore, even their pay is low. The teachers need aids and assistive devices."
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