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    "id": 197324,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Bura",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "However, because we had teachers then who were able to provide their services under those very trees, we were able to perform, if not excellent, but better than poor. I think the biggest problem that lies with our education system currently is about staffing. I currently have a shortage of around 242 teachers in my constituency. You would get to a school with classes from one to eight with three teachers. How do you expect those students to perform? At any one given lesson, if the teachers work like devils, five or six classrooms will have to stay with students playing in there. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) has done much of infrastructural development. I have so many classrooms down there in Bura Constituency with so many students in them, but no teachers. I think even the CDF Act as it is, is not empowered to provide for the shortfalls of the education system. It is not that we lack teachers around, but it is lack of employing those teachers that is really bringing the staffing problem in schools. So, the CDF Act needs to be amended to cater for the remuneration of teachers if the Government cannot employ more teachers. What is the need of building so many classrooms - some look like mansions - with students playing in there for good hours without a teacher? I do not think we will move in the right direction. There is a certain clause that captured my attention about regulating private schools. When people here talk of \"regulation\" some chills are sent down because this means gagging and so many other issues. The private schools will be self-regulatory if we provide the best systems in our public 292 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 19, 2008 schools. However, that is lacking. That now gives an avenue for private schools to crop up and then take advantage of students and parents. Something great should be done about staffing. If that issue is dealt with, maybe later on some students from Bura Constituency might become presidents of Kenya. About slum upgrading and markets, I do not doubt the capacity of the Government to upgrade slums and build some markets to defuse or to take hawkers off the streets. However, when these slums are built or upgraded, my worry is who ends up there. Will the rightful people, those who are in the slums and who the upgrading system was meant be the ones to benefit or it is the kith of wealthier people that will end up there? Even the same applies for the markets, so to say. We will end up building markets saying that we want hawkers off the streets. If we do not ensure that those who are benefitting from those markets are the same hawkers, they will be still be on those streets and the markets we built will be full. You will wonder where they came from. About the HIV/AIDS scourge, the President's Speech contained a part that says: \"We should give support to about 30,000 orphans who are orphaned by HIV parents\". I wanted to capture the aspect of control and maybe prevention. We cannot keep on supporting HIV orphans without talking so much about prevention. If we want to bring the problems to an end, we have to cut the source. We will continue providing support to orphans. People will still contract the AIDS/HIV virus we talk about. For how long are we going to support those orphans? So, something has to be done and we have to concentrate our efforts more on control or prevention of HIV/ AIDS spread rather than support systems. I would finish my contribution by summing up with security because I see my time is up. I beg and plead that this Bill in the name of Organised Crime is not the Anti-Terrorism Bill that has been housed in a very good name. I beg to support."
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