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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Kipng'etich Bett",
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    "content": "I want to urge the Minister to also find a way of improving on the syllabus for schools to include environmental studies. Today, we have issues of climate change and we are being told of El Nino and La Nina . These are issues which we need to address from the basic level in our lives, namely, from Standard One all the way upwards, so that we can internalize the importance of conserving our environment. We may also need to find a niche in our syllabus for high schools to include family planning. Today, our population is growing at a higher level than the economic growth. That situation is causing stress to the delivery of services by the Government. Classrooms, health facilities and water supplies are stressed. This is all due to the increased population growth. I would like to suggest that at the high school level, we may need to introduce in a very intelligent and careful manner, lessons on family planning in order to control our population. Under the County Education Board, there is a representative of the governor. I would like to suggest that we boldly say this is the governor, his or her representative. As the chief executive of that county, he or she should be given the responsibility of the management of education in that county. The other one is the issue of sponsors and the Minister touched on it. This is a delicate issue, but there are also schools which may not necessarily be sponsored by religious institutions like the ones we are building under the CDF. We need to re-look at the role of these religious institutions in the management of schools. One would need to ask how much they are contributing to the facilities and the infrastructure of these institutions apart from claiming that they are the sponsors of the schools. We need to re-look at that issue. Another issue is the issue of free primary and secondary education. The flow of money from the Ministry or the Exchequer is so poor and it causes distress to the schools as well as causing stress to the children who are supposed to be supported through that facility. The law should provide a regular timeframe within which that money should be disbursed to the institutions as opposed to where at the moment they rely on God’s grace and when the money is available. Finally, we need to address the issue of the infrastructure as suggested by the Minister. Who will build classrooms and laboratories? The 15 per cent that we will be sending to the counties, will it be enough or will there be some more money from the National Government to assist in the building of these facilities? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, who will give us computers so that we can all be computer literate in the whole country in order to compete internationally? Who will give us those computers or will we rely on somebody somewhere to give us his or her used computers as a way of dumping them in our country? As far as I am concerned, that is dumping of used equipment from other countries in our country. With those remarks, I support the Bill."
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