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    "id": 719866,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Let me now talk about the national Government’s programmes on the education sector. I expect the national Government to implement the programme of building a technical training institute in each constituency. I know that this is being done it in phases. This is the last financial year of this administration’s first term. I expected all the constituencies to have established technical institutes, as promised, by now. There is also need for the Government to revive the school feeding programme not just for the period of the current drought but as a continuous programme. If this is combined with the Free Primary Education programme, we will have many more kids going to school. Many of the children in this country are from very poor families. Therefore, the Government needs to revive the school feeding programme as a permanent programme in all schools. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education had announced that there should be no levies payable by parents in primary schools. He talked of parents not even employing Parents Teacher Association (PTA) teachers. There should be no PTA teachers because parents should not pay any levies to the schools. That is a welcome move. Parents have not been paying because they have a lot of money. They have been paying because there are no enough teachers in school. Therefore, in order for the CS to have that directive implemented effectively, he should plan for the Government to absorb all the teachers who are unemployed. There is a shortage of 80,000 primary school teachers in the country and if they want to take the burden of paying from parents, then they should absorb all the teachers out there and there will be no P1 teachers in the schools."
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