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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wilson Sossion",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for granting me this opportunity to contribute to the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I wish to join everyone in saluting this Committee appreciating the fact that mobilising resources to finance the various Vote Heads in the budget is a difficult task and considering the novel COVID-19. Hon. Speaker, allow me to comment on the education Vote Head and also the TSC Vote Head. We appreciate that at this time, the most essential critical services in the world out of the COVID-19 are healthcare system and education. All Governments have been indicted and so has this Parliament and our budget system. These are critical areas that we cannot avoid allocating and appropriating sufficient resources. As a nation, we are members of the global community and I would like to, as we congratulate the BAC, urge that in future, we comply with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) standards of appropriating, at least, 6 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to education and at least 20 per cent of the overall national expenditure. From these figures, indications are that we are slightly below 6 per cent of GDP and 20 per cent of the national expenditure. As a country, within the framework of Vision 2030, where we endeavor to produce the best quality human resources, this cannot be achieved unless there is deliberate appropriation of enough money to education. Focusing on the teaching service, our Constitution, which the people of Kenya gave themselves, created the TSC, so that the cost of employing teachers can be offloaded from the poor households. It is 10 years down the line and this budget-making process should actually help in actualising the Constitution. Ten years down the line, we have seen, even on the Floor of the House, questions on board on the management teachers. I wish to state that no law in this country recognises a group of teachers called \"board of management teachers\". We have also seen aspects of internship. In this country, out of these developments, particularly on the boards of management investment and intern teachers, we end up burdening the very poor households that needed to be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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