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    "id": 1183280,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support, but more importantly to thank the House leadership, both the Leaders for Majority and Minority parties, for ensuring that this committee is indeed complete and within our guidelines of our Standing Orders. Having said that, I want to very fast pick from there and contribute by agreeing with you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, that the House should proceed to do what is necessary to ensure disbursement of the NG-CDF is done. The ruling of the Supreme Court dealt with the NG-CDF Act of 2013 and that of 2015. The President of the Supreme Court has no idea about the 2015 Act and the further amendments of 2022. So, we will be even wrong ourselves by putting ourselves into a crisis. As we constitute this committee, our first stop must be in her office so that she explains to us to enable us understand her ruling. I think the NG-CDF should continue because what she dealt with was the 2013 Act. Today I have been to several schools and when you look at those candidates who are going to sit for national examinations… In one school I have 800 Form Four candidates; 420 class eight candidates; and around 402 Year Six candidates who are supposed to be sitting the national exams. In total, we are talking of 20,000 candidates in just one constituency yet we have other kids who are now at home. They were under the NG-CDF bursary but have been sent home due to lack of fees, yet as a country we purport that education is the key and the future. We are lying to our children and the country. There is also the former Cabinet Secretary for Education who decided to give out desks to schools but they were never enough. I think each school was getting about 50 desks. If the desks were through the NG-CDF, every school would have desks. Today I contributed 200 desks each to six different schools."
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