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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, one of the problems that I have as the Chairperson of the Select Committee on Implementation is that I always have Members intercepting me on the corridors of Parliament asking me about implementation of their Motions and I wish they could listen. I want to thank the Office of the Speaker and that of the Clerk for affording this Committee this special opportunity to appraise the House on House resolutions. I am on the Resolution based on a Motion that was moved by Hon. Hassan Dukicha on 19th June, 2013. This Resolution was on the establishment of girls’ boarding schools for both primary and secondary schools in ASAL areas. On this Resolution, the Committee noted that eight boarding primary schools were established in these areas in the 2013/2014 Financial Year. Three secondary schools namely, North Eastern Girls, Isiolo Girls and Moi Girls, Marsabit were also established. Each received a total of Kshs29 million for infrastructure upgrading. Each boarding school in the ASAL areas also benefited from Kshs190,476 to mitigate the effects of drought during the 2013/2014 Financial Year. However, as a Committee, we noted that the coverage of this provision is inadequate and the funding levels are too low. Consequently, we have scheduled a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for further engagement on how this programme can be expanded to cover more ASAL so that more pupils can benefit. Hon. Speaker, the second Resolution, which is based on a Motion that was moved by Hon. Gatobu Kinoti on 31stJuly, 2013, touches on the establishment of a public data bank for all bright and needy students. On this one, the Committee notes that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has not established a data bank on bright and needy students. The main source of data for this Ministry on the pupils is the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) performance index, which in our view, is inadequate. This is because the performance index does not give the financial needs of the students. We further noted that because of the absence of such data bank, scholarship schemes may continue to target undeserving students or pupils. In this regard, we have again scheduled a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology to address this. Hon. Speaker, like I said yesterday, I will talk about the challenges of the Committee. One of them is based on lack of co-operation from certain Cabinet Secretaries in terms of providing full and regular reports as required by Article 153 of the Constitution. We have this challenge with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The third Resolution touches on a Motion by Hon. Francis Njenga. This is a Resolution for financing of training in applied sciences in village polytechnics and institutes of technology. The Committee notes that the Ministry is supporting vocational training through youth 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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