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    "content": "mechanism over a period that they will agree so that we sort out this particular problem once and for all. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at the Constitution, in Article 53, it says that every child has a right to a name and nationality at birth and, more importantly, to free and basic education. As we speak right now, we are denying these children in public schools their right to basic education. Therefore, I think it is important for us to sit down and agree on an implementation framework. If we sit down and look at the resources in the current budget, you will realize that we have a lot of resources locked up in national parastatals and authorities that are doing functions that are already devolved. If we have goodwill to sort out this problem, we will sit down and look at some of those allocations that we gave to institutions that are doing work that is already devolved. This will enable us get the Kshs1.5 billion that is required per month to ensure that children of poor Kenyans are able to go back to class. One of the shocking things we keep on hearing from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education – it shocks that this is somebody who worked within the education sector. You would expect better performance from a professional who was within the academia. But the kind of arrogance that we keep on seeing from this CS is shocking. All these institutions are supposed to be held accountable by the National Assembly. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC), the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and the CS Education, Science and Technology should be summoned to tell us why they are not taking steps to ensure that teachers’ problems are sorted out in this country. I urge the Members of the National Assembly and especially the relevant committees that they should realize that this is a national crisis that we should address. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think we can actually get between Kshs5 billion and Kshs10 billion from the Constituencies Development Fund. In any case, we do not need CDF in the first place because it is unconstitutional. The courts have already declared it unconstitutional, why are we still keeping CDF when we can take part of that money and ensure that we go pay the teachers to ensure that the greatest equalizer in the entire world, which is education, is not jeopardized? This will enable children of all and sundry to access education in our counties. I support and urge all the relevant stakeholders to come together and ensure that the education sector is sorted out in this country."
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