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    "id": 239417,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to talk about a national issue before I move on to talk about an issue which is affecting my constituency. I want to ask our friends who call themselves the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) luminaries--- When some of us were going round last year protesting against the Wako draft, our leaders formed the ODM. We said that we did not want the Wako draft because it gave more powers to the Presidency. I am now surprised that those who were the leaders of ODM, who would take 20 minutes to speak during rallies, while some of us were given only two minutes to introduce ourselves, are saying that they want to contest for the Presidency. I am wondering if it is the same Presidency they were against, that they are contesting for. If it is the same Presidency, let Mr. Kibaki continue leading us until 2019. What we want is a genuine review of the Constitution. I am requesting the Government to re-launch the process of writing a new Constitution, based on the Bomas Draft. Having said that, our colleagues who are going round campaigning should know that some of us in the ODM know that they are not sincere at all. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I now say a few things about my constituency, and the allocation of resources. We are now recruiting teachers. But it a shame! In Nandi North District, where we have two constituencies, we have been given 47 vacancies for teachers. 2624 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 3, 2006 However, there are already 78 teachers with notices to retire at the end of the year. So, we are getting a deficit of 31 teachers. What kind of fairness in resource allocation is that? In most schools in my constituencies, the ratio of teachers to pupils is one to every 70 students in lower classes. Although we call it free education, is it fair for those young children? As we go for recess, we should go and sit in the District Education Boards (DEBs) and check on the recruitment of teachers. They should look at the figures afresh. There was something terribly wrong. I do not want to talk about the Kenya armed forces and others. But because those are Kenyan children, let us look at that recruitment afresh. I also want to support what Mr. Musila said earlier, about appealing to His Excellency the President to direct secondary school head teachers and principals of Government colleges to release certificates to students. I have a poor girl in my constituency who completed Form IV in the year 2001. She had a mean grade of C+ through though she did not present her case to me. She owes the school only Kshs5,500. It also happens that from the CDF, we had given that school Kshs700,000 for pumping water. It is sad that, they have not released the certificate of that poor girl since the year 2001. I have assisted her but, let me ask: Is there any legal binding agreement for teachers and Board of Governors to retain certificates? It is illegal! That is why I am seconding the appeal to His Excellency the President to direct school head teachers to release certificates. Finally, I want to request the Government - and I wish the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Development was here - to allow us to use acaricides of our choice. The acaricide they are forcing us to use, that is Triatix, does not kill ticks. Those ticks are killing our cattle. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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