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"content": " Finally, the Senate Majority Leader also has a question."
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"content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, mine is totally unrelated, but you know citizens are following what we are doing here. One of the people who employed me, that is my constituent, has just sent me a text message. This is what they are saying. The person works as a police officer. While they paid teachers who were involved in marking KCSE, police officers who provided security for the containers carrying examinations have not been paid up to date. Those are five months after the examination was released, but they are still waiting for their pay. They asked me to bring it to the attention of the Cabinet Secretary, so that those officers can also be paid."
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"content": " Thank you, Senate Majority Leader. Cabinet Secretary, you can now tackle those questions."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Julius Migos Ogamba",
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"content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. On the question of reclassification of Makueni County as a non-hardship area, I think this is a general problem in the whole of the Government. You will find one Government institution classifying a certain area as a hardship zone, but another one does not recognise that. You can get two officers, for example, a teacher and another civil servant in the same area being classified differently. Therefore, we have made a recommendation that an audit be done then we have an actual gazettement of all the hardship areas so that it is harmonised. With respect to reclassification, I do not have clear information as to how this has happened because I am hearing it here for the first time. I undertake to find out the basis of that reclassification. As far as our programmes in the Ministry are concerned---"
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"content": " Cabinet Secretary, you need to confirm. Within which period will you bring back that response?"
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"content": " Two weeks, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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"content": " That is okay."
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"content": " With respect to the school feeding programme, we have a programme where we are supposed to work towards reaching 10 million children. Currently, we are supporting 2.6 million children, which is far below the number of children who actually require that support. We will work continuously to ensure that we reach that number, which is the target for 2030. We are looking forward to getting resources from both the Government and our partners to ensure that children in the ASALs and those in urban informal areas who require the support benefit, so that we retain them in school as required under the Constitution. We will look for resources to ensure that we reach that number. Moving to Sen. Nyutu’s question regarding the number of laboratories, this year we provided for a budget to construct a further 1,600 laboratories. We are working with the School Equipment Production Unit (SEPU) to provide mobile laboratories. We are also working with other institutions because we have realised that some junior schools The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "are adjacent to secondary schools. So, they can jointly use those facilities so that they are not completely left out. As a Government, we are working progressively to ensure that each and every school has a laboratory. We are also working with the NG-CDF to convert some classrooms that have been done into laboratories for the students and provide the much required laboratory equipment, so that they are not completely left out. We are aware and we are doing something about it. I have answered the concern about the hardship area. We will respond to that in two weeks giving the reason. On the issue of non-payment of police officers who assisted us during last year’s examinations, I am aware that there is a challenge with the budget. We have requested for some resources under Supplementary Budget III. We will sort out the police officers once that Exchequer is released. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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"content": " Sen. Cathy’s supplementary question has not been responded to. That was about schools in slums."
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