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    "id": 1092415,
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    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": "we are in today. Anytime there is a shortage of infrastructure within schools or there is lack of school fees somewhere, it is the Member of Parliament who is blamed for this kind of scarcity. That is the kind of situation we are confronted with. I have 155 schools within Nyando Constituency. Half of the money that we get goes towards bursaries, leaving so paltry an amount of money that cannot even erect a classroom across the constituency. I do not know whether this House has the latitude to enhance the CDF funding, or even put its feet on ground to ask for additional funding for infrastructure development within our schools. Another matter that I had wanted to raise, and this is an opportune time to do so, is that since Monday, with reporting of form one students in schools, I have, personally, received lots of phone calls. I am being told that even though the calling letter had, annexed to it, a fee structure, when students report in schools, they realise there are so many hidden charges that were not hitherto put clear. At that point when children are being admitted, they have to pay these sums of monies. So, even as the Departmental Committee on Education and Research is retreating to get into the bottom of these issues, we also need to know why these hidden charges are passed over to our parents yet they are issues that were not raised earlier. Secondly, it has become a new normal that mattresses together with boxes, bedsheets and other requirements are not to be bought by parents but they have to pay for them in schools. They are made to pay over 300 per cent over and above the prevailing market price. They have no choice. That is what they have been forced to do. We have received a lot of complaints from parents regarding what should happen now that they are in this kind of state."
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