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    "id": 1183302,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183302/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Njuguna Kawanjiku",
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    "content": "because of a judgment made by a judge sitting at the Milimani Law Courts without considering what those people will go through. We have already received millions of phone calls from people asking us when we will disburse bursaries because they cannot keep their children in high schools. Through the NG-CDF, we have even been able to come up with new high schools. For example, in my constituency, we are currently constructing a high school due to the high number of students in public primary schools. We need a 100 per cent transition from public primary schools to public secondary schools. We have constructed new high schools to give those children an opportunity to learn, so that they can also become better people in our society. Through the NG-CDF, we have been able to reduce the number of those unemployed because some would not have managed to get employment because of lack of education. We must come together as a House regardless of which political side you come from; whether the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance Coalition or the Kenya Kwanza Alliance, and support this agenda. We must make sure that the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning releases money for the NG-CDF before we go on recess so that we can plan and ensure that students stay in school. We will also ensure that other ongoing projects in our constituencies are fully functional. We should support them and ensure that we keep our students in public schools. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the NG-CDF has been a good fund and it has been managed very well. We have seen constituencies that have done exceptionally well by renovating their public schools thus giving students a better opportunity to learn in a better environment and ensuring that we have a 100 per cent transition from public primary schools to public secondary schools and thereafter, probably to universities. Let us give them an opportunity to become better people within our society. I support this ad hoc committee. Before we go on recess, we demand to hold a"
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