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    "id": 1048826,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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        "id": 13223,
        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Statement by Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve about the return to school by students after Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) lockdown. It is very true that parents are finding it difficult to take their students back to school because of various reasons. One of them was that they were hard hit by the outcome of COVID-19. Some of them have lost their jobs and employment, business and so on, and this was expected. What I would want to know as we prosecute this Statement is the preparedness by both the county and national government to ensure that the students remain in school. Madam Deputy Speaker, it is not true that all the students have not gone back to school. Some of them have actually gone back to school but have been sent back home to collect school fees. Many are filling my four offices in the county looking for fees. It is very unfortunate because these students are supposed to sit for their exams in very few months to come. I think the national Government in as much as they threaten the parents that they will lock them up if they do not return the students back to school, we would also need to know how they were prepared to make sure that the students go back to school in terms of releasing the capitation money to secondary school and also in terms of releasing the National Government-Constituencies- Development Fund (NG-CDF) bursaries. Madam Deputy Speaker, most of the students who have gone back to school have been given letters by the Members of the National Assembly but the head teachers and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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