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    "id": 241431,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I would like to confirm that, since the introduction of free primary education, there has been an increase in enrolment nearing two million. Before 2002, the enrolment in public primary schools stood at 5.9 million. However, by July 2006, the enrolment stood at 7.5 million. That is an increment of 1.6 million pupils. There is a further increase of about 500,000 pupils in public schools. We also have about 300,000 children who enroled in non-formal institutions. (b) In terms of coping with the transition rate from primary schools to secondary schools, we have realised that we need to employ more teachers for secondary schools because they are expanding. But, unfortunately, as of now, we are still replacing only those who have been lost through natural attrition. I hope that we shall be able to recruit more teachers after negotiating with Treasury to allow us to do so. It is a problem but, for the time being, we are just recruiting to replace those we lose through natural deaths. We also hope to do a balancing act to ensure that schools that have more teachers surrender them to teach in the new schools that we are starting."
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