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    "id": 1106835,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106835/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2543,
        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
        "slug": "emmanuel-wangwe"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that the Basic Education Act adopted in 2013 guarantees the implementation of the right to free and compulsory education as provided for in Article 35 of the Constitution; appreciating that pupils shall be given appropriate incentives to learn and complete basic education; deeply concerned that the funding of free primary and secondary education does not provide for food feeding programme thus undermining the children’s socio-economic right to be free from hunger and to have adequate food of acceptable quality as well as education; further concerned that this fundamental omission in capitation exposes hundreds of thousands of school-going orphans and other vulnerable groups of learners to the adverse effect of hunger leading to death, early marriages, school dropouts and high rates of truancy; considering that with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic the income of households has gone down through massive loss of jobs and opportunities and the virus will still be in existence for a long time as infection rates continue to rise the world over; noting that the Ministry of Education continues to take positive measures aimed at combating the pandemic within institutions of basic learning; further noting that the primary school capitation of Kshs2,500 per child, secondary school capitation of Ksha22,244 being Ksh4,144 for tuition, Kshs2,000 for medical insurance, Kshs1,500 for activity, Kshs200 for Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA), Kshs5,000 for maintenance and improvement and Kshs9,400 for Local Transport and Travelling (LT&T) administration does not include a Vote Head for School Feeding Programme, this House urges the Government to enhance the primary and secondary capitation per learner in order to cater for feeding programme for learners across the country. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
}