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    "id": 1037803,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1037803/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Being an MP, my phone had about 17 text messages, three WhatsApp messages and calls from my constituents asking me how I can allow this at a time when I know they have no money. Therefore, I would like to go on recess with an assurance to my constituents that, come January, either we have NG-CDF for bursaries or an assurance from the Departmental Committee on Education and the Government of Kenya that they will not subject our students and parents to further suffering beyond what they have suffered during this COVID pandemic period. You know close to two million people who were in formal employment are today out of employment. Those are parents who had students. Another three to four million people who are in the informal sector have been affected by this pandemic and will have no means to take care of their children. Therefore, if we increase their fees, I think it is a matter that is weighty enough for you to indulge us and direct the Chair to explain. When the dailies report about Parliament and I am counted as a Member of Parliament and maybe there are Members who may not be in support, for the record, I wish to state that I will not in any way support an increment of fees threefold, not even double, at this time. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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