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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "The other thing is the composition of the boards. This Bill makes it clear how the boards should be composed. The Bill should be improved further to make it very clear how the boards should be constituted in order to make education management very easy. What I oppose in this Bill is the attempt to over-legislate. We have seen a lot of pieces of legislation which do not make sense. We should not stop schools from conducting tuition. We are not equal. There are schools with enough teachers. There is unfairness in the distribution of teachers. Some schools in the rural areas have very high student enrolment, but teachers are few. Do we tell such schools not to conduct holiday tuition? We should not be legislating even on where to keep tea cups in schools. We should leave those matters to ministerial regulations. They should be managed by this House’s Committee on Delegated Legislation. Therefore, I oppose the inclusion of the clause on holiday tuition. On the issue of limiting the term of the chairperson of the board, we should be realistic. In rural areas, there are very few people who can become chairpersons of school boards. You cannot say that a person who has been a chairperson for two terms is ineligible to be appointed chairperson. Let us leave the issue of electing board chairpersons to the owners of the schools, who are the people who actually have interest in those schools."
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