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    "id": 711863,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/711863/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First of all, I want to congratulate the President for increasing the amount that we get for the FPE. This has helped many nomad students to stay in school especially in hardship areas like Turkana, Samburu and West Pokot. For accountability of these funds, we need bursars in schools. Most of the head teachers are busy with other issues of the school. They are administrators, managers and accountants. They do everything in school. Because of that kind of environment, you realise that there is no accountability. The records are not there. If we have bursars in schools, the head teachers can keep records and perform other duties and the bursars will take care of the finances. This will also create job opportunities for our young men and women who have finished school and are at home without doing anything. If we get a bursar in every school in this country, we will create a lot of jobs and we will realise the Jubilee dream of creating job opportunities for the youth. Another issue is about the Arid and Semi Arid (ASAL) areas. Although this money has been increased, some schools in ASAL areas still have a lot of problems. If you consider a teacher going to town from the interior to collect money, they use motorbikes and use the same money to pay for their transport. I wish we could have a special kitty to help the teachers in the ASAL areas. We should increase the amount of money, so that they can meet other expenses that are not foreseen. For example, the price of items in Kitale, by the time the items reach Turkana, the price doubles because the businessmen include transport costs. They also include profits and you find that the budgets are affected in one way or another."
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