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    "id": 952545,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/952545/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ayub Angatia",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
        "slug": "ayub-savula-angatia"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Sessional Paper in regard to the education system in this country. From the outset, I would like to suggest that we amend the Constitution of this country with regards to the appointment of cabinet secretaries (CS). You cannot put measures or parameters where county executive committee members (CECs) are required to have degrees while there is no provision for standards in terms of education for cabinet secretaries. Even a D- fellow can become a cabinet secretary because the Constitution is open in terms of education. How does it reflect on a society where you have a cabinet secretary who is a Class Eight drop- out? When discussing this Sessional Paper, let us begin by amending the Constitution, so that we cover that loophole. Secondly, when you talk about education, the mother of education is primary school. When you do not build good structures at primary school level, you are not developing education in this country. The NG-CDF build primary schools. With the disaster that happened recently, I suggest that the infrastructure funds under the Ministry of Education be transferred to the NG- CDF, so that we can utilise that money to build good infrastructure in our schools to promote the quality of education in this country. I am only allocated Kshs100 million by the NG-CDF, but I have 140 primary schools in my constituency that are mud-walled. I do not know what to do with those structures. This kind of reactive measure that the Minister is showing us - a professor going to Kibera to inspect schools because of the disaster - is total nonsense. Give us the infrastructure funds under the NG- CDF and let us build the schools. Do not give us stories that because there is a disaster, you now run around the country closing schools. Where were you before the disaster happened? Give us the infrastructure funds. The infrastructure funds are lying with the Ministry of Education. We go begging for Kshs5 million or Kshs6 million. Why can the money not be transferred to the NG- CDF, so that we do quality work? There are systems to audit the word. We are the ones to do it. We need to bring a Motion to Parliament to amend the NG-CDF Act so that all the infrastructure The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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