{"id":729721,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/729721/?format=json","text_counter":262,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":376,"legal_name":"Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona","slug":"millie-odhiambo-mabona"},"content":"Finally, the other issue that is of concern and maybe because of time we may not raise it in this Parliament is - I have been walking in my constituency and it comes up everywhere - the ratio of teacher to pupil. There is a policy that I did not see in this Parliament so I do not know where it was passed. If it was passed, perhaps I was in the Pan African Parliament. I am a fairly diligent Member of Parliament but I did not see it pass here. The policy ratio of teachers to pupils that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has passed is that you must be about 40 pupils before you are given a teacher. Just last week I was in a school called Mawanga Primary School. It has 220 pupils and the Government has never given it any funds, so it is a community effort. For me to reach that school--- There is no road and there is no path that a motorbike can follow. If the pupils who are there were to go to another school, they would be walking for about an hour every day to the nearest school and an hour back home. That is the challenge that people that have come from 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."}