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    "id": 830746,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Mary Njoroge",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wamaua Waithira Njoroge",
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    "content": "policy guidelines on land expansion for public schools and set aside a fund for acquisition of public land. I am supporting this because of the rising population in our primary and secondary schools. It is more in secondary schools after the 100 per cent transition. Most of the children are transiting to Form One and, therefore, all the time secondary schools are called upon to expand to have more classrooms. Sometimes you will find that a secondary school was given land by the adjacent primary school, so that even when the NG-CDF is ready to build more classes, the land is not available. The other thing is, whenever our people who are willing to sell their land hear of NG-CDF being interested to purchase their land, they always raise the prices of the land. If the Government through the Ministry can bring a policy to guide on this, we will not be taken advantage of. Another thing is, the NG-CDF money cannot be enough to buy land for all the schools that are asking for the expansion of their schools. So, if the Government puts a kitty together with the little that the NG-CDF can afford, we can buy land for the schools because there is what comes from the Government and there is what the NG-CDF can be able to give alongside other projects. There is also the issue of improvement of infrastructure like the sporting activities. When you get into the rural areas, you will find that some of these children in primary and secondary schools do not have fields where they can do their sporting activities. You will find some of them on the road competing with pedestrians and motorists so that they can at least practise about two months to their competition. I wonder how the Government cannot afford to buy school land to the extent that children play as pedestrians and motorists pass. We are calling for all the parents to make sure that their children are in school. That is why we are supporting the free and compulsory schooling. The other day we adopted a Motion where we were requesting the Government to allow feeding programmes in secondary schools. If this happens, then it means that the population in our schools will improve. So, when there is increase in population, it calls for expansion of land. That is why we are supporting this Motion. I also want to concur with one of the Hon. Members who said that the Ministry of Education needs to partner with the Ministry of Lands in matters to do with physical planning, especially when it comes to subdivision of communal lands. This will allow us to leave enough pieces of land for our schools. Sometimes you will find that some of our communal land has about an acre or two acres. This means that very soon we will be calling for expansion of land. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Motion."
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