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    "id": 460086,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to congratulate the Mover of this Motion. He moved this Motion regarding Free Primary Education (FPE) last week and it is long overdue. Indeed, the amount of money being issued for FPE--- Over the last ten years, FPE has done a lot for this country. I thank the Kibaki administration for bringing up this issue together with that of Free Secondary Education (FSE). Unfortunately, a lot of things are not free. A lot of our constituents come to us asking for money to be supplemented because what the Ministry of Education is giving them is little and it gets to them very late. Again, it is only, Kshs1,020 and that is not enough to cover the cost of books and other things associated with it. So, Kshs3,060 would be a very good figure. The Government should think of supporting the secondary education and increasing the amount which is allocated to secondary schools. It also needs to think of working with day secondary schools which play a very important role. The Government should think of how it is going to supplement the day secondary schools as well as increase money for the boarding secondary schools in line with the proposals in this Motion. I, therefore, urge the hon. Member to do an amendment and get secondary schools to be part of this Motion. We know that the transition rate from primary to secondary schools is not the best we can achieve. We want higher transition rates from primary school to secondary school. For that to happen we need to come up with good policies in encouraging those who have sat their KCPE to continue with education and join secondary school. We need also to establish youth polytechnics for the students who have done their KCPE. They normally do not have anything to look forward to during the break before joining secondary school. They need to be engaged in good practice during 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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