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    "id": 834235,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Karani",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Odhiambo Karani",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Caleb Kositany. With the establishment of free primary education, we are aware that the enrollment in our schools went up by almost 100 per cent. Where we have reached at the moment, it is painful and we do not understand it. Some of our schools, as we speak, do not have space for expansion. We have several schools in my constituency which are just upcoming. These schools however, lack the space or land for expansion. This has forced parents to turn to fundraising to get the land. This automatically leaves the burden to the parents whom we are aware have a problem paying school fees for these children in the first place. The Government has to come up with a policy that will establish funds that can be used anytime for the expansion of these institutions. It is in the public knowledge that failure for us to get alternative land for expansion of academic purpose will lead us to fail. The performance of some of these schools cannot just go up because of lack of space for extra-curriculum activities. We have a saying that goes, “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy”. How can you expect students to perform when a classroom that is supposed to accommodate about 40, has more than 100 pupils? We are getting problems within our constituencies. In one of the schools I visited, you will find that in one classroom we have almost 100 pupils. These schools do not have space to build other classrooms. Even if we try to help out with the NG-CDF, we are unable. We may have funds to build the classrooms, but where are we going to put the classrooms? Let me finalise by urging the Government to come up with a policy to ensure that we have enough funds and space to build extra classrooms. For the performance of our children to go up, we should also come up with other facilities like libraries in our primary and secondary schools. We cannot manage to have these things unless we have enough land to build these institutions to help us improve on performance of our children. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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