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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this timely Motion. The Free Primary Education (FPE) is ten years old this year and the amount the Government allocated has stagnated at Kshs1020.00, while the prices of commodities have gone up more than ten times. Therefore, I rise to support the Motion and thank the Mover. First, public schools within urban centres and upcountry are congested because of the FPE programme. Many parents took their children to school in order to benefit from FPE. There are some cases especially in my constituency where we have more than 70 pupils per class; that is not a classroom. When you compare public schools with private schools, the population is about 25 to 35 pupils per class in private schools and that is why there is a difference in quality between public and private schools. Therefore, we need to increase the amount of capitation per child to Kshs3,060 so that public schools may have additional resources to put up infrastructure. They need additional classrooms so that we can improve the quality of education in public schools. Secondly, I support this Motion because currently the managers of public primary schools are struggling. They cannot run the schools well because they do not have the resources. The Ministry of Education does not even release the funds on time. The money arrives towards the end of the term when the schools are about to close. We also need to urge the Government to release funds as soon as the schools open or even earlier; a week or two before schools open so that resources may be used well within the term. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support the Motion on increasing capitation per child because we know very well that most of the positions in public national schools are taken by students from private schools. This is because our public primary schools are not doing well due to lack of resources. For example, they do not have enough teachers. Private schools have enough teachers because the businessmen The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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