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    "id": 469117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Bill and to interrogate it further to say that I think this is what we were anticipating to get and we should be able to look at the two levels of government as proposed in the Constitution. The Fourth Schedule states that there exist two governments with distinct duties and roles. When you look at the way we are trying to bring up the costing of the items, what this Bill talks about is the cost of ongoing devolved functions. In education, we talk about primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities. All of them are being served from the national Government but the national Government does not own land in the air. When we talk about schools, for example, I would want to see a case where we have physical money which is going to infrastructure for schools or colleges. Literally, is it being shown in the national Government as such or is it being shown in the county government as such? For example, we say that the TSC has been given almost Kshs240 plus billions when we know that we have a shortage of almost 80,000 teachers. Have we costed out the function and would we know the number of resource persons missing in the teaching sector in the counties to the extent that we will be convinced that this Kshs143 billion is enough to solve the problems of teachers in every county? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in West Pokot County, we have a shortage of over 1,000 primary school teachers. I would want to know from this Budget, how many teachers will be employed in the next financial year so that the education level of our children in that county can be catered for. Secondly, what I discovered this morning when I went to look at the level of electrification in our county, I was told that electrification in West Pokot is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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