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    "id": 1553895,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "On the issue of certificates that Hon. (Dr) Nyikal has raised, I said that the period that we gave the headteachers to release the certificates will expire next week. After that expiry, our officers on the ground will collect data on the principals and headteachers who have refused to release the certificates to the students. We will then deal with them. That is why we said we would act after that, because we gave them 14 days to respond and comply. If they do not, we will take the data and act. Let the parents who will come to you confirm to the sub-county directors of education (SCDs) that they have gone to primary school “A” or secondary school “B” and they have been denied their certificate, and we will have that record. Sub-county and county officers will be going around the country to collect that data. I know some counties that have fully complied, and I also know others who have said they are not going to comply. We are waiting for those who will not comply, and we will deal with them. I know they have been thinking that we would not act, but we are going to act. It is unconstitutional and illegal. Kenya is a country of laws. We are going to deal with them. As I had indicated earlier, we have not received any infrastructural funds for the last two years with respect to the schools that have been submerged. Perhaps, this is the reason why we have not been able to rebuild the schools that were submerged in Turkana. We are trying to work with other Government institutions like the Ministry of Interior and National Administration and the Military, to assist us in those emergency situations to rebuild those schools. We will put those schools in that programme even though we do not have funds at the moment to see that they are done, so that the students can go back to school. On the school feeding programme, if those schools were in the..."
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