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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamasi",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Lyula Khamasi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion. I think my colleagues have said as much as I would have said. But I want to join those of my colleagues who have commended this Ministry which has been in place for nearly four years now. It has achieved quite a lot for the Kenyan people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a massive programme like free primary education is not a simple matter. For the Government being in power for a few months and putting this programme in place and having done what it has done so far, should be commendable. I think it is unfair to come here and rubbish everything that the Government has done towards this end. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Ministry is very big, and that is why it takes a huge chunk of 3042 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 18, 2006 the Budget of this country. But we must be pro-active. We must now be asking ourselves, after free primary education for eight years, what happens next? This is because in the next two or three years, we shall have a lot of teenagers who have finished primary school, ill-trained and who will be in the market doing nothing but learning how to fend for themselves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about posting of officers in this Ministry; Provincial Directors of Education (PDEs) and District Education Officers (DEOs). Western Province seems to be the most unfortunate province in this country because every time we get an officer posted there, he is an officer who is either a discipline case or is coming to retire. You know how people who are going to retire work; they do not concentrate. They are looking into how they are going to retire. To add an insult to an injury, the ones who should retire are told they can keep on serving for another two years. Two years to do what? We have complained about these cases to the Minister; a Minister who comes from Western Province and he does zero! It is very absurd, and that is why this Province does very poorly in national examinations."
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