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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Petition by Hon. Njomo, but we need to provide information. During the 11th Parliament, when the Budget and Appropriations Committee was under suspension, I found myself in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. At that point, the matter of Imperial Bank going under was very hot in this country. I remember very well, under the chairmanship of Hon. Langat, the matter of banks going under was thoroughly discussed by that Committee. There is a lot of documentation relating to that. I remember at one point doing a paper on that. So, even as the current Committee starts investigating this matter, it would be very good to use that document as a starting point. This matter is well documented and the points are very clear. The challenges we have with banks in this country include insider banking where directors engage in banking and in the process, there is conspiracy. Directors also conspire with the CBK Monitoring and Evaluation Department. So, that report can be a very good starting point. We should avoid doing the same thing that was done by the Committee in the 11th Parliament. The other point that I want to raise is the issue of implementation. The report I am talking about has very serious recommendations. Our Committee on Implementation needs to help this House. It does not make sense to spend a lot of time discussing these issues and documenting them, but nobody follows up. If there was a serious follow-up, the issues being raised by Hon. Members would be addressed in a very clear manner. Very specific recommendations were provided. So, the Committee, under the chairmanship of Hon. Limo, needs to use that as the starting point and help this country. Our people are suffering and some have even committed suicide. You bank your money somewhere as you plan to do a project, but after some time, you are told the money is no longer available to you. Where do you start from? On the matter of the Petition on education, as a House, we have taken a long time to talk about lack of teachers in our schools. Kitui County is leading in this country in terms of shortage of teachers. The Departmental Committee on Education and Research should try and help our children by bridging the huge gap. I believe my constituency, Kitui Central, is the most developed in Kitui County. However, there are schools there with only four teachers. So, at one point, you have about four clauses having no teacher. The classes have to share the few teachers who are available. So, instead of teaching the full 40 minutes, they do 20 minutes and rush to the other class to do another 20 minutes. Yet these students are expected to sit the same national exams as other students who have access to teachers. This House needs to help in this matter of shortage of teachers. It is the only way our children will get better grades. With those remarks I support."
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