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    "id": 731961,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": "I congratulate the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology for what they are doing. I know they have inherited a deep-rooted problem that has been there for a long time. The current CS and his team are trying, and we can see the structures they have put in place, to ensure that some facilities are given to schools. For the first time, some of us are benefiting, especially in Kapenguria or West Pokot. The other day, I saw a long list of some schools in West Pokot which are meant to benefit for the first time since Independence. Some time back, if you went to West Pokot and heard of a school, you knew it was a missionary school. Churches put in some effort to ensure that those communities uplifted their education standards. I now realise this. I went straight to Standard One because there were no pre-units then. The people who were close to us were the missionaries and the churches, be it the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK), African Inland Church (AIC) and the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA). Those were the people who were involved in education and health. If you go to West Pokot, there is a big hospital called Ortum, which is a missionary health facility. I am talking about it just to emphasise that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology should go further and ensure that the resources they give to schools are utilised to the last penny. There is a problem when we talk about buying books because principals or those in charge collude with bookshops. If you go to a school which you have been told has several books, you will not get even a single book. Those are some of the areas that I am talking about. They have done their part by supporting those institutions, but they should ensure that whatever they are putting there is made good use of. With regard to the Kenya National Examinations Council, I would like to say the following: Without education, you cannot be a Member of Parliament; without education, you cannot be president and without education, you cannot be a medical practitioner. So, education is the foundation. If KNEC is going to continue this way, even other countries that we are linked to in terms of education are going to think otherwise of us. Indeed, KNEC is trying to put its house 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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