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    "id": 906454,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/906454/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you. I was just giving the example of the TVETS. We have 183,000 students who have enrolled, partly because we have hyped it and shown people the need. We promised to pay capitation of Kshs30,000 per student, which works out to about Kshs6 billion. But in the Budget, it is about half of that. We were even forced as the education committee to reallocate some money from elsewhere to try to fill that gap. But we will still require an extra Kshs2 billion. We have not even provided for the internships, which we have promised them upon finishing training for between six and 12 months and they will be paid a certain amount of money. Basically, I am just giving that as an example. If we do not provide for those resources now or plan to provide for them in the course of the year, we are going to have students without funding. The other thing I want to mention, I know some Members have been asking about it, is that the 100 per cent transition to secondary schools is very good and has now resulted in children getting to leave school at a mature age of 18 years instead of 14. But it has also put a strain on the infrastructure. We do not have enough classes, laboratories and teachers. Unless we provide money for that to even at least cover the gap of teachers that we have of about 25,000 that should have been recruited in the last two years, we are going to compromise on education standards, which basically puts our future in jeopardy."
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