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    "content": "loved to have this included in the Supplementary Estimates. I am saying so because I have received several requests from hon. Members to this effect. Unfortunately, this is one such feature that we did not anticipate. We thought we were praying for rains but we did not realise the rains were coming in such a manner to blow off roofs and, therefore, provide emergency funds to take care of this expenditure. Unfortunately, it is such an expenditure that is not catered for even in the Printed Estimates of my Ministry. I do not know how we shall be treating this. I realised it is only two months to the next Budget. I only pray that we will be able to somehow keep our children learning until such a time that the Budget is prepared. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to take the earliest opportunity to appeal to hon. Members that, through the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), they have an emergency window to put in the support for this programme. Another area which has given us a lot of headache is the post-election violence and the number of schools that were razed down. The Government, through its normal provisions and support from the bilateral donors, has been able to build some of these schools. However, they are not complete. We shall continue building them. Obviously, the costs have been phenomenal. There has been an escalation of costs. I think one of the biggest problems that Mr. Wetangula mentioned in this House is the process of procurement for material for putting up buildings. It has been going back and forth, coming up with bills of quantities (BQs) and assessing the prices. Therefore, to start off a programme which may have started in a very humble way, that we wanted the classrooms to be completed within three or four months, has now taken almost a year. I will be launching some of those schools that were razed down in the Rift Valley and other areas next week or the other, so that we can bring the children back to normal classrooms so that they can participate fully in the normal learning on the other aspect of life."
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