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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not suspending the list, but I will be consulting. I will marry the information that I have received from the technical input to the task force’s information. I am sure that we will get a better hybrid. An hon. Member asked how the issue of the quota system will be resolved. Indeed, we must look at the quota system. Currently, where there is a national school, the local people are allowed to admit only 5 percent of the Form One places in that school. I do not know what the task force’s recommendation will look like, because I have specifically asked them to address the issues of the quota system and affirmative action. So, I do not know what format their report will take when it is finally presented to me. Obviously, it is an important point, which we must deal with, and be very clear on how we will engage the national schools vis-a-vis the local interests. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Letimalo asked what fairness is there when ASAL areas are ignored. It may please the hon. Member that one of the things we are addressing through this task force is the very same issue on which I had a very long chat with him – nomadic education. I intend, through this package, to bring in a comprehensive educational programme, in conjunction with the Ministry for the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands--- We will address the issue of nomadic education in some of those areas. These are special peculiarities which you cannot put in the group development strategy and policy on education. So, ASAL areas are part of the areas I intend to engage for the future. Hon. Shebesh said that there is no affirmative action where schools exist. I am glad that hon. Members have raised this matter. We have provided, through the Economic Stimulus Programmes (ESPs), one centre of excellence in every constituency. We have also said that there will be two model primary schools. This has not only been said, but we have also gotten resources flowing to the specific schools where hon. Members participate as committee members. The problem we have is that some of the schools are not complete. Some are 80 percent complete. Some are only 50 percent complete. Some schools in Western Province have done very well. The completion rate ranges between 90 and 95 percent. I want to thank them for that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, as a Ministry, together with this House’s Departmental Committee on Education, Science and Technology, are trying to persuade the Treasury to release additional resources in the coming Budget, so that the ESPs do not become white elephant projects. We want them completed, so that they can perform the purpose for which they were set, which is to bring a sense of equity and affirmative action in the whole country. That way, Kenyans in every constituency can say: “We have"
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