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    "id": 806835,
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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity and to also thank you for recognising the primary schools that are seated in the galleries of Parliament. We want them to confirm whether they are beneficiaries of the feeding programme. As I was looking at the Motion, I wanted to agree with Hon. Vincent Mogaka. At first, it was meant for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). But I want to point out the fact that he has forgotten a few other urban areas and he has just included Nairobi and Mombasa. I come from Nakuru County; a county that has just been given a city status and we have slums. That is the biggest problem that we are having in urban areas. I was just trying to confirm with the County Director of Education that this programme is not in Nakuru. It is meant to have started for purposes of ASALs. They need to include urban areas, particularly people from the slums. It is not just in the ASALs where there is no adequate food. In urban areas where we assume there is adequate food, so many families cannot take their children through school because of this. Even in my constituency and Nakuru County as a whole, you will find so many kids carrying food because parents do not have money. By the time they are taking their food, it is either very cold or it is stale after staying for so many hours and, therefore, is not of any use to them. I think the programme as initiated by the Ministry, did not start yesterday. It started a long time ago in the 1980s, where we used to have a school milk programme in the Moi’s regime. I was actually telling the Mover that he is not a beneficiary of that milk. I do not think he was in primary school by then. I just want to confirm that when the programme started, it started for a purpose. It failed because when they think you are dealing with the Government, 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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