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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want with great humility to appreciate and thank the hon. Members for not only the immense support but 100 per cent support they have given to this Motion. This is particularly from those who contributed to this Motion from last week. I also want to thank the Ministry because when I was moving the Motion the substantive Minister and the two Assistant Ministers were here and they took note of what we have been discussing. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am happy that the Assistant Minister has come here with a heap of documents, trying to make reference to what has happened in the past. This Government has spent a lot of money on many commissions that we have had in the Ministry of Education, the roads sector and all the sectors. If you go to all the Ministries, you will find that the shelves are full of these reports. However, I am happy that with the Ministers we have and the time they have taken--- What we want from the Assistant Minister is the implementation of this Motion. The Assistant Minister has touched on a very important area which we keep on ignoring. This is on Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers. This is the starting point. I appreciate that the Ministry has taken that into account and it will make sure that it is factored in the Budget for the coming Financial Year. I think the task force must also have a time limit. The Koech Report was very comprehensive but there was a lot of politics. We should delineate politics from important issues like this. There are many other things that would have come but maybe we will raise them later on. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other point I would like the Assistant Minister to note, now that he has said that they need to be pro-active rather than waiting for Motions to be brought before this House, is with regard to staffing. Allocating money per child will enable us to know how much we are spending on Kenyans and how many of them are benefiting. This is because you can very easily count the population of children in primary and secondary schools and be able to know that you have assisted this much. Some of the schools are not performing well because of staffing. I have also been carrying out research on my own. I found out that the schools which are performing very well are properly staffed. Among the schools which do not perform well, among a staff of about 30 teachers in such a secondary school, about half of them are employed by the"
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