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    "id": 418833,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Manga",
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        "legal_name": "Shadrack Roger Mwita Manga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank this Committee for bringing up this Budget Policy Statement (BPS) which, to me, is very important. I want to look at the village polytechnics that we have. It is not only money that we lack. There is one thing that the Government has forgotten about those institutions. They give them teachers who are not trained. They give them people from the Jua Kali sector and those who graduate from those institutions do so without any technical education. We should make sure that money is set aside to sharpen teachers who are teaching in those institutions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have 51 primary schools and out of those, only 30 have electricity. I wonder what will happen to the 21 when we have the laptops programme fully operating in primary schools. I, therefore, want to support that the money that the Budget and Appropriations Committee is proposing be allowed to go to Rural Electrification Agency (REA) so that it can supply every primary school in this country with electricity. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to say that in my constituency, we have chosen two schools of excellence. It is not only the laboratories that we lack, but we also lack teachers. Sometimes, some of those schools miss five or six teachers. How can you make it a center of excellence if it does not have all that? So, I think this Statement is very important. I want to thank the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations Committee for bringing up this one."
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