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    "id": 1153210,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "has been applauded across the world as the most progressive Constitution for this side of the world. Under the Constitution, 2010, we in this Senate are creatures of that Constitution. In the Judiciary, we have the Supreme Court and in the Executive, we created the Office of the Deputy President. Those are the highlights of the Constitution 2010, not forgetting devolution, the Bill of Rights and all the good things that are to be found in our supreme law. The late President Mwai Kibaki played a lead role to ensure that Kenyans gave themselves this wonderful Constitution. The development record of the former President, our fallen hero, speaks for itself. The road network and the road from Nairobi to Thika, the so called Thika Superhighway, has been mentioned in many places outside this country as a piece of good work. We will not forget to mention the FPE. Without saying any bad things about anyone, I draw a parallel between the achievements of FPE under the late President Mwai Kibaki and what is there currently. The late President Mwai Kibaki inspired hope among people. When the doors were opened for FPE, people willfully took their children to school. Adults left their farms and trooped back to school. We all remember the images we got from Olympic Primary School where children from all over Nairobi went to school. Madam Deputy Speaker, last year, I remember there was a Government edict that chiefs and assistant chiefs are supposed to walk in homes to drive away children to go to school. If there is goodwill and people see hope in what they are being offered, there will be no need to use Government mandarins to force people to go to school. The question that many parents are asking themselves today--- We have been elected to speak for and on behalf of the people that brought us to this House. Many questions that parents are asking themselves is whether the FPE is really free. There is still so much money that parents are supposed to pay for their children to access school. Yesterday I received an anonymous call from a voter in Kitui County. The caller was complaining, almost shedding tears, that they were given contracts to construct the so called Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms. They have constructed the classroom and the details in regard to the contracts have been filled and submitted to Jogoo House. However, when they come for payments, they are being taken round in circles and they are not being paid. In fact, in his own words, people at Jogoo House are indirectly asking for bribes to pay the contractors who have been asked to build classrooms. During the days of the late President Mwai Kibaki, such things would not happen. I want to challenge the Government of the day, as we eulogise the late President Mwai Kibaki, to call up on the Cabinet Secretary for Education to make sure that if money was set aside for people to get contracts to build CBC classrooms in our institutions, it is only fair that they are paid. There should be no conditions at all. Just pay them because they have done the work. 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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