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    "id": 1498733,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498733/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Allow me first to inform the Cabinet Secretary that Members of Parliament do not construct classes. I have heard that, but we do not want it to go on record. It is NG-CDF that does that, but not Members of Parliament. Numbers do not lie. The Cabinet Secretary has clearly indicated that a total of about 16,000 classrooms will be built for purposes of JSS. The Government's policy is that every primary school is supposed to transition to JSS. Therefore, they must have a Grade Nine class by January next year. At the same time, some of the schools do not have a single stream. They have either double or triple streams. There are over 32,000 primary schools in Kenya. If he has talked about 16,000 classrooms, that does not reach half of the schools. More than half of the schools in the Republic will not have a class ready in January. The Cabinet Secretary should tell us what the principals or heads of the institutions are supposed to do. Secondly, it is also important to note that the number of teachers he has enumerated here is not enough to teach in all those schools. JSS starts from Grade Seven and Grade Eight, and it will be up to Grade Nine next year. We do not have enough teachers. What advice is he giving the principals and the heads of the institutions to figure out what to do when the children report in January? Thirdly..."
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