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    "id": 711973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangamati",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Wangamati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. Hon. Lusweti has seen it wise that we talk about management of resources in our primary schools. We must guide the country on that matter. I would like to ask the Government to continue pumping money into the FPE Programme. The Government should also look for ways of increasing the allocation to primary schools for effective management of basic education. The Government must employ bursars in our primary schools. I heard Hon. Okoth say that there are schools with student populations of about 100. Is it in this country? Most of our primary schools have student populations of about 500 students. If you visit any school in Nairobi, you will be surprised at the number of pupils. I urge this House to pass this Motion so that Hon. Lusweti can bring a Bill for enactment into law as from next year. We need to save taxpayers’ money. Textbooks can be kept for many years because the curriculum is not changed every year. Pupils only buy exercise books regularly. There is no way you can write a text book today and the following year you write another one. These books are never kept. The primary schools should learn to keep these books so that we do not spend money every year to buy books. I do not see how the schools can do this because every 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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