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    "id": 1033362,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mose",
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        "legal_name": "Shadrack John Mose",
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    "content": "a country are we still required to even reengage ourselves. I think the President needs to refocus because of the upsurge of the pandemic. In my constituency, in the last like two weeks, we have lost very many people. When you look at even those that we have lost, some of them are those who are frontline workers in the Government. We should be able to rededicate ourselves to address this issue of the pandemic. What do I say? You know the pandemic as at now has serious consequences on other serious sectors of the economy. One of them is the education sector. I am aware and the Cabinet Secretary for Education has announced that schools are opening in January. It is going to be disaster for this country. I say so because of our level of preparedness and infrastructure in terms of what we have done to have the many pupils go back to school in a deplorable condition. Therefore, I urge the Ministry of Education to dedicate the money that it has put for infrastructure to be channelled to the various schools so that we have many classes put up and renovations done in many of the schools which initially were not set for this. Besides, many of the private schools that were helping have closed. The proprietors have opted for other options. Some of them have even converted their schools into restaurants and accommodation places. Therefore, this is an area that we need to address. Secondly, very many Kenyans have lost jobs and in January, they are required to pay school fees for their children. I urge that the Government refocuses its energies, strength and all its resources to ensure that it assists parents in January to address the issue of the schools that will have reopened. There is something that the President did which is extremely good. The boda boda sector for our young youths was for many years considered an area of rogues, thieves or criminals. However, with the Government coming in, we want this House to pump in more resources to ensure that we have invested in our young people. At the end of the day, the boda boda sector has become a serious industry that employs very many young people because they also do a very good service to our people in terms of movement from one town to another. So, with those remarks, I support the President’s Address."
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