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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyachae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads and Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 342,
        "legal_name": "Simeon Nyachae",
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    "content": ". For the information of this House, the Mungiki problem has not come about because of lack of education. Some of the people in the Mungiki sect, if you do not know - because Mungiki has been in existence for over ten years - are university graduates. Some of them are high school graduates and got \"A\" plus. So, let us not pretend that it is lack of education which has created that problem. There are other factors which should not be discussed here when we are discussing this Vote. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my contribution today is really to urge the Minister to maintain the momentum that he has created. Let him continue encouraging his staff not only at the Ministry headquarters, but even out there - the principals, headmasters of schools and all the other teachers. At the moment, if you go out--- At least, I visit some areas, particularly where I come from. I visit many schools there and the morale of teachers is very high! In fact, you find them saying: \"What we want is additional staff!\" Last weekend on Friday, I was somewhere in Nyamira District in Kisii. I never imagined that I could go to a high school that has an enrolment of 900 children. Can you imagine that establishment? What is needed is additional teachers. Let us support the Ministry to get more money. Teachers recruitment is there. Let us support the Ministry! Let us increase development funds, so that facilities could be increased. What is needed in most of our schools are facilities for technical education - laboratories and more libraries. Those are needed in our schools! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us look at how education has become part and parcel of the assets of Kenyans. I, personally, will not hesitate to say: Let us encourage more universities! Yes! Not only by the Government! We should not always be demanding from the Government. Let us encourage even private investors to start institutions of higher learning."
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