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    "id": 953532,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953532/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "We are talking about 100 per cent transition. I mentioned this one before. When we transit everybody from Form Four telling them they must go somewhere, we are losing the incentive of good work in schools. If you have grade E, you are allowed to go to a technical training institute. When you are there, you have a scholarship of Kshs70,000, yet when you go to a university you do not have any support. You are left to the vagaries of the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) which in the end does not support everybody the way it will be supporting every student in the technical training institute. There is still a lot that we really have to look at in this policy. When you look at the flow of our policy arrangements, there are mishaps. All the Members of Parliament should take one week to go to primary schools, see them from outside and go into some of the classes. I tried this last week and realised that we do not have classes. There are classes that were constructed by parents in the 1970s and 1960s when the Government was not constructing them, but we now come up with a policy that has certain standards. The policy comes up in 2000 and we do not look at it backwards to when those classrooms were constructed. There is a major problem."
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