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    "id": 834203,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Kositany",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Caleb Kipkemei Kositany",
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    "content": "land for expansion of public schools and sets aside a fund for acquisition of such land. It is very important for Members to ventilate on this issue. What drove me to come up with this Motion is that I visited a school in my constituency which is in an area called Moi’s Bridge Ward. The school sits on one acre of land and has 450 students. Looking at the young students enjoying themselves, you want to give them the most comfortable place to acquire their education. An acre of land in that area goes for about Kshs1 million. The parents within that area live on an acre or less. They will definitely not be able to afford it if we say that they should contribute to the purchase of land. The money that we get from the National Government- Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and the money that comes down to our county governments is not sufficient for us to rapidly expand our facilities. This is because the rate at which the population is expanding is not the same rate at which we expand the facilities, especially the learning facilities. This is to urge Members to debate on this Motion and pass it so that we establish a fund that will be specifically for funding expansion of land for primary and secondary schools, and polytechnics. It has also come to my knowledge that whenever we want to acquire land for schools using NG-CDF funds or even county government funds, whenever the owner of the land learns that the purpose of purchasing the land is expansion of facilities for a school, the price always triples. Therefore, we also need to have guidelines so that we have a Government valuer to value the land and acquire it at the most competitive price or at the Government valued price so that we expand our learning institutions for now and for posterity."
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