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    "id": 834238,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1885,
        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": "increase the population of a school, if it is through form one selection, when you have plans to increase the facilities for these children. It is very important to note that we have some primary schools whose total number of pupils in that school surpasses the teacher-pupil ratio. It is important that the Ministry has a policy that will ensure that the facilities are going to be expanded, vis-a-vis the number of students and pupils that are being admitted to the schools. I have seen the Ministry allocating some schools Kshs50 million from infrastructural funds without rationale, that allocation of such funds should strictly be guided by the facilities and the population of the students. I want to appreciate Hon. Caleb Kositany for bringing this Motion. This is a Motion whose time has come and it should be the responsibility of Government to ensure that we have availability of land and money set aside to build classrooms for such schools. That is the only way we can add value to the huge budgets that this House approves for use by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Allocation of such money should never be at the whims of the Principal Secretary, but it should be dictated by the infrastructural requirements of various schools, like buying land and building, because NG-CDF is not enough. You understand that the amount of NG-CDF money available for such development is less than Kshs55 million, which is not enough to turn around the infrastructural needs of these schools. So, we must push the Government. As this House resolves, it is now upon the Committee on Implementation. I am aware that this House has passed very many Motions, but they have not been implemented. As we support, it is in the same spirit that we will urge the Government to take what comes out of this House very seriously. It should not be business as usual; that we pass Motions and five years down the line, nothing is being implemented. The Motions that we pass here are the ones that will dictate, guide and direct future budgeting. We need to move away from the tradition where the Ministries sit down, come up with strategic plans without being guided by the various laws and Motions that this House has approved. It is Motions like this one that should guide them on what needs to be put in place, so that they budget money to implement whatever the House has approved. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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