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    "id": 711969,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "these are bursars, particularly in secondary schools. So, in my view we are trying to bring in a wrong prescription for a genuine problem. What needs to be looked at is if we can enhance the capacity of the officers at the District Education Offices. These are the people who can check, in terms of the levels of enrolment, whether things are crooked or not. So, when Mheshimiwa is prescribing for bursars, I think there is a problem. What has gone into FPE in the last 12 years is massive training of committees and head teachers. These people have been trained from time to time on issues of capitation. So, if you bring in another group of bursars in the name of being knowledgeable in handling school funds, then that is not right. There is another thing the Motion has not addressed. The average number of pupils we have in primary schools is about 300 per school in the whole country. We have those that are over 1,000 and others that are below 100. So, if you look at the level of capitation, we are disbursing around Kshs350,000 to schools in a year. If you employ a bursar and, say, you pay him Kshs30,000, it means you will be paying him Kshs360,000 and yet the capitation is Kshs 300,000.To that extent this is not a good solution. We should look at the mathematics involved. If we employ a bursar for each primary school, we will pay them not less than Kshs300,000 yet a school has only Kshs300,000 in terms of capitation per year. We are adding more staff for purposes of fighting graft yet all the relevant institutions for fighting corruption are in place. The CS for Education has so far done a good job in curbing exam cheating. He should now move to schools and see what is happening. Education officers at the district level can handle the FPE. We should not bring in bursars who are going to be idle and creative in terms of generating avenues for stealing."
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