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    "id": 151160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we could also diversify the sugar industry, particularly for coal generation, we would have a little more electricity for consumption in this country. We would bring more parts of this country under light. There would be cheaper electricity than we have today. We would also create more jobs if use these other sources of energy to produce electricity for this country. The report also says that in the last one year or so, the Ministry of Education experienced higher registration of students in primary and secondary schools. It is true that there was a big growth in registration of students. One the other hand, if you look at that report, there was a general decline in the number of teachers that we had in our schools. With time, the number of teachers was going down. So, we have fewer teachers today than we had in 2004. Yet, we have more students in our schools today than we had in 2004. That is according to the tables presented in this report. So, if we have fewer teachers and more students, it means that the quality of delivery of curriculum is compromised. That is actually what is happening. We do not have enough personnel to handle our schools. We also do not have enough personnel in the quality and standards control of curriculum delivery. This has surfaced here in Parliament on many occasion when MPs ask our Ministry about personnel. This is a challenge to the Government. But unfortunately, we are having the economic crunch that is affecting the rest of the world. On the road sector, we know very well that without good roads, the economy will not do well. Most of the contractors that have been given the jobs to do our roads are very poor in their work. However, we keep on hiring them. Sometimes back it was said that they were to be blacklisted. All the same, these same contractors are still being given job. They keep on doing poor work. This is an issue which the Ministry of Roads needs to address properly. There is the crops cess that is collected by the local authorities."
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