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    "id": 875624,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/875624/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "small compared to the demand, which is very high. I support what my colleagues said earlier that the 2.5 per cent NG-CDF ceiling should be increased to 3 per cent. If it were possible, the percentage should be higher than that 3 per cent. This year, the Government decided that all the pupils who did their Class Eight exams should proceed with their education to Form One yet there were no preparations to provide for the extra classrooms that would be required. Last December, I happened to be in a secondary school for a different function and the principal of the school plus the chairman of the board of management asked me to accompany them to a classroom so that I could greet the Form One students. We could not get inside the classroom. The desks filled the whole room including the space you would think the teacher would stand when giving lessons. There was nowhere anybody could stand in that room because it was packed. I expect the process of absorbing Class Eight students to Form One to be continuous such that the current Form Ones will be in Form Two in their large numbers, followed up by those coming behind them and filling all the classes. The import of this is that we require additional classrooms all over to absorb this extra load. If the provision of 2.5 per cent of the national revenue remains, which means that we are currently supposed to get Kshs109 million annually, I do not see how the students will sit in those classrooms from Form One to Form Four. I am sounding a warning in good time. We will get the additional funds by increasing the percentage to 3. It must be done immediately. If we do not do so, we will suffer. I heard what my colleagues said. I support the idea of pegging a larger portion of the Fund to the poverty index as well as population. There could be a problem with population. There is the example of the 2009 Census where the population in some areas was artificially inflated. I assume that such tragedies will not occur again. If they do not occur, such that this year’s population census correctly reflects the true position of the Kenyan population, we cannot run away from the consideration of population because ideally, we serve the population. Population plus the poverty index will give the equity that we need."
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