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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Many head teachers and teachers in general take their time in educating our children. As I remember, the Government must contribute a big percentage even as parents also subsidize school payments. We have often seen monies allocated to our school in the budgets of the Ministry of Education. All we are saying is that these monies must be disbursed in time if we want success and our students to learn in time. The schools can only be efficient and effective if some of these funds are disbursed to them in time. We all know that schools have a calendar. They have a calendar that must be followed, even their term dates. All the activities that happen in school happen because of certain resources that are given to the schools. Schools use part of this money to pay certain teachers where there are shortages. Some of this funding is also used to build some of the infrastructure in schools. The laboratories where the children learn must be funded. We cannot expect success if the Government does not invest in these schools. Lastly, I want to support the statement by the Senator of Machakos regarding the acute shortage of blood in the country. Look at the number of accidents reported on our roads every other day. These are unplanned occurrences. The Government must plan well in advance. We should have blood bank centres across the regions in this country. There must be not only adequate blood, but blood that hospitals and members of the public can reach at any time and speed. The need for blood is not only limited to the accident victims that we have. We also have sick people who need blood to be sustained. We have often heard of people who lost their lives because blood was not available. This must be discussed by the Committee when you finally give your direction, and we should never see a situation where there is a lack of blood in this country. Lastly, I support the Statement by the Senator of Kisumu. This one regards the adequacy of administrative units in Kisumu County and their capacity to serve the growing population effectively. We have often said that we must bring services closer to our people. These administrative units provide structures that bring these services closer to the people. We have talked about decentralization and devolution of services. This must not be limited to Kisumu County. In the sub-county where I come from, Ndhiwa, our people are crying for more administrative units. Through the effort of leadership and some delegations that met with His Excellency, the President of this country, we divided the Ndhiwa sub-county into two sub-counties. However, if you look at the length and population of that sub-county, we need that sub-county to get further subdivisions, and we propose to have three sub- counties out of the single sub-county that we have in Ndhiwa today. This is an effort to get services closer to the people. This is why all of us applaud devolution: We wanted services to come from Nairobi and to be devolved up to the county headquarters. Those services must not be limited to the county headquarters. They must go down past the sub-county headquarters, up to the wards, and even up to the villages. I support this Statement in the spirit of efficiency, availability and equity of services to our people. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity."
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