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    "id": 383538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I want to thank Sen. Murkomen for introducing this Motion at this time. You notice that the Fourth Schedule describes the function of the national Government and functions of the county governments. Allow me to read this so that we do not misunderstand the intention of Sen. Murkomen when he brought it here. The Fourth Schedule concerning the functions of the national Government, especially Nos.15 and 16 says as follows:- “The national government is to do education policy, standards, curriculum, examinations and the granting of university charters. 16. Universities, tertiary educational institutions and other institutions of research of higher learning, primary schools, special education, secondary schools and special education institutions.” The functions of the county governments talks about what the Mover of this Motion intended. If you look at No.9, it talks about pre-primary education, village polytechnics, homecraft centres and child care facilities. Madam Temporary Speaker, what the Mover of this Motion had in mind is that we need infrastructure to be done by the county governments, but the examinations will be done by the national government whereby it will be uniform across the whole country. All standards and measures will be done by the national Government, but the recruitment of teachers will be done by the government although it is done at the county level. What this Motion wants is that we need to devolve construction of infrastructure like classrooms, toilets, water and so on to schools. If you remember, from 1963, Kenya has been operating on Harambee basis to build schools until 2002 when the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) came in. It is when we saw a hand given by the Government to the constituencies and for which the leaders from those constituencies started doing booming construction. Where I come from, in 2002, we had very few primary and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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