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    "id": 883863,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/883863/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani, for bringing this issue. When this matter is finally committed to the Committee on Education, I think there is something that every Kenyan in this country wants to understand about this policy. What would be the role of school headteachers in the purchase and supply of these textbooks? Initially what used to happen is that teachers would get allocations from the Ministry, they would buy the books that they need from approved bookshops locally in a way supporting local businesses. What is more, there was a very personal and important relationship between the school heads and the people in the business of supplying books to the extent that teachers would even access these textbooks for students and effect the payments later. Now, here is a situation where we are going back to what I used to see when I was in school where learning materials were supplied by the Kenya School Equipment Scheme (KSES). We had to wait for the Government to dispatch books to every school in this country. The sustainability of this current policy is very questionable. The cost of managing the programme, may end up being abused which will result in the cost of supplying the books to the schools equal or more to the cost of buying them. It is very important that these issues are clarified even as we support this policy of full transition from primary to secondary schools. I support."
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