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    "id": 53712,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lang’at",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank the Member for Ndaragwa for moving this Motion. All hon. Members are ex-officio members of the Boards of Governors (BoGs) of our schools and we quite understand these issues. The Ministry of Education has increased funding and support to both primary and secondary schools and a lot of attention has been paid to the teachers over time. There will be an issue if we continue paying attention to one arm while the other arm does not move. So, it is important that those people who operate behind the scenes and are very important in terms of their contribution to education in our schools must also be taken care of. Everybody in a school has a role to play. We have cooks, watchmen, laboratory technicians, bursars and so forth. These people must also feel that they are part of the school and must be motivated. Therefore, this Motion is relevant to the extent that it tries to bring them on board so that they are at par with the teachers in order to motivate them. If we continue allocating so much money to our schools, and yet we do not have qualified people, for example, bursars and accountants to help account for this money, then we risk what the Ministry is already facing. There are issues of corruption due to lack of accounting. Therefore, we also need to build the capacity for the schools as we fund them in order for them to account for the money. This will ensure that things do not"
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