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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "ensuring that every child goes to school and accesses food, irrespective of their family background. I will be very candid on the Floor of this House. There are millions of children who are not able to get even a meal in the morning. Some of them drink porridge in the morning, lunchtime and evening. Some do not take anything, not even water. This Bill is going to ensure that the Government is brought into account and ensure that it puts a lot of money into education. This Bill comes at a time when our President, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, is rallying all global leaders to donate for the purpose of education. This money is supposed to go to low income countries like Kenya and other countries in Africa. There is need put set aside lot of funds for this programme to be ensure that no child is left behind. When it comes to resourcing for finances for education, it should be over 20 per cent. This money should start from the national Government and cascade to the county governments. We cannot compromise the lives of our children. We have to look for ways of ensuring that our children love education. I am a product of nyayo milk. I remember that I did not come from a well- endowed family, but that alone kept me in school. I am where I am because I was retained in school. So, there is need for us to look for a mechanism of ensuring that we reach the hard to reach children. Those children who come from disadvantaged families and cannot have bread, milk or uji on their table. Let us retain them in the school system. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a good Bill, but it should not be a Bill that cartels are waiting for to mature then they come in with their tenders. It should be a Bill that empowers county governments, so that when it comes to financing, county governments should look for mechanisms of ensuring that they bring all the milk in the counties and give it to children. That way, they are going to boost the economy of the counties. Even the farmers in those counties will benefit. Sen. Moi came up with the Local Content Bill. I want to state to Sen, Kwamboka that there is need to see how to craft a sentence that will entail that all the milk should come from that county. I suppose that there is milk that will come from Uganda, Tanzania and wherever yet this Bill is supposed to benefit the people and children of Kenya."
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