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    "content": "example, Riara School or Makini School, where my children went to school, is 100 per cent privately owned school. How then can you bring another amorphous body to vet the managers of those schools? Will they be vetting them on morals or academic standards and on what criteria? If I own a private school, I want results. I employ managers who will give me results. How can somebody else determine who will manage my school? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for example, good schools like Lukenya, and Kianda or others, we cannot have some people appointed from Jogoo House to manage them. Most of those awards will be reward for political failures in many cases. Someone who vied for the position of a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) and failed and because he is “Jubilee damu, anawekwa hapo ” or if he “ CORD damu, anwekwa hapo.” That is what will happen. Such a person will be told to determine who will be the manager of Marel Academy, one of the schools in Bungoma that appears among the top five schools in the country in Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). That cannot happen. We are micro managing private enterprises and schools in a manner that does not help. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause (3)(h) talks about compiling the priority list of school infrastructure and development annually. Is it the intention of this law that the national Government will provide adequate infrastructure in every school? I know that it may be difficult to obligate the Government to give adequate infrastructure to all schools at once. However, it can be done progressively. Why would we have a body compiling a list of infrastructural development annually? In a county with 600 schools, the whole year these fellows will just be compiling infrastructure reports and earning allowances every single day. If you have 600 schools – I know there are some counties with 1000 schools. In my county, we have more than 1,000 primary schools. If a year has 365 days and these guys are compiling infrastructure reports one school a day, it means by the end of the year, they have not even done one third of the schools. I do not think this is what we want. In any case, if you want to know the infrastructure development in any school, all you need is to mail a questionnaire to the head teacher. How many toilets do you have? Are they flash toilets or pit latrines? How many classrooms do you have? How many boardrooms do you have? How many kitchens for teachers do you have? You do not need anybody to go round compiling lists. This law is not helpful. Another issue is transfer and discipline for learners and non-teaching staff employed by the board of management. This is very strange. If a learner, for example, in Nairobi School is indiciplined, where do you transfer that learner to? These children who burn dormitories – for once I agree with my friend, Dr. Fred Matiang’i – those children should not just seek to be relocated to other schools to burn other dormitories. There must be some measures of discipline. How can you pass a law and say that when the headmaster has a troublesome student, they transfer him or her to another school. This is not right. In addition, there is the question of transferring non-teaching staff employed by the Board of Management. Non-teaching staff include watchmen, grass cutters and cooks. How do you start transferring a cook from Kapsabet High School to Chepterit, for example, or Kapsabet High School to Nandi Hills? Each school employs their cooks, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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