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    "id": 711954,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/711954/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1169,
        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "The FPE is supposed to do certain things which have been said here like buying books, repair and maintenance of classrooms and also provide security for the schools. But it is a pity that we are called upon through the CDF to repair and maintain classrooms. We are sometimes called upon in book donation days in schools to go and donate books. So you wonder where this money is going to. It is a very good idea to have somebody who has got financial training to look after these finances, which the Government takes down there. Talking about my constituency, it has 143 schools and we get close to Kshs70 million a year. That works to slightly under Kshs500,000 per school. I do not think a teacher who is not trained in accounting will be able to utilise that money very well. Therefore, it is high time Mheshimiwa Lusweti’s Motion is looked into and, maybe, as others have said, put it into a Bill and demand that we must have bursars for these schools. Whereas we may not have bursars for all schools, we could go ahead and have bursars for what teachers call zones. When they are giving exams or when they are doing something, they have zones. We could have bursars per zone. I think this will go a long way in handling these finances very well because head teachers cannot do it. Currently, they are the accounting officers and I think they are completely incapable of accounting for these funds."
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