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    "id": 399562,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. This Motion by hon. Abdullahi Mohammed Diriye is actually very timely. Since the inception of the FPE and subsidised secondary education ten years ago, the amount of capitation has since remained the same despite the various parameters of measuring the growth in our economy indicating that our economy has been growing steadily from the year 2003. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the money that is sent to primary schools, besides just buying curriculum materials is also meant to maintain the schools and, of course, the school workers. Those school workers are actually workers of Government institutions and, therefore, their requirements of even annual increments and things like those should be looked at. If the schools have lived up to this, then it means they must have exhausted what was available. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is not right. We all know that the prices of items have since tripled or doubled and yet the amount that was given ten years ago still obtains. I wish the Mover of this Motion would have included the secondary schools in this Motion. Secondary schools get up to Kshs10,265 per year per child. This caters for the employees, learning materials in the school and all other forms of curricular. Having been a teacher and a principal at that, I really understand that this money is very little. It forces the principals to levy other small fees, of course, in consultation with the District Education Boards (DEBs) or rather now called the County Education Boards (CEBs). 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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