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    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for ignoring what he was saying. You should have ruled him out of order because he did not know the Standing Order he was standing on. Let me support this Motion first by commending generally about education. As the previous speakers have said, education is the equaliser because it puts the rich and the poor together and the strong and the weak together and even different genders together. Education, therefore, is one area that must not be handled very casually. It has been the case that whenever there is a big problem in an area or something that people do not understand people would ask, “What is the teacher saying?” This means that those who are educated and, especially teachers are given a special status in our communities. It is very interesting that we Kenyans have very good ideas but when these ideas are put into practice, somehow we handle them very casually. Maybe it is because of the inborn corruption that we have in our country or somebody sets up these good ideas to fail so that they can benefit. Truly speaking, FPE is one of the precursors of the devolved Government that we have presently. Before the devolved governance that we have now, these are some of the areas that the Government experimented with and resources were devolved to lower levels. The only problem is that we are not devolving the human resource to go and manage these things. For example, it has been said here that we expect a teacher to look after funds. It is really a tall order because they do not have any training in that area of finance. They do not have any knowledge in basic bookkeeping. I do not know what is taught at the Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs), but I wonder whether they are trained to be accountants. Even the CDF itself, the way it was conceived initially, it did not have any fund managers and the Members of Parliament who were handling CDF by that time went everywhere with the cheque books in their pockets. Somehow, that was arrested and now in the CDF, we have fund managers to take care of these funds which are given down there. 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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