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    "id": 1193572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1193572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johnson Naicca",
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    "content": "We have locations, sub locations and divisions. This Fund has helped me build over five offices for assistant county commissioners and education offices. We have allocated bursaries to students in universities. Mumias West Technical College was built by the Government, but we also funded it hugely. It now offers various courses and students across Kenya come to learn there. It now has over 600 students. It also offers a rare course called mechatronics, which you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, know about. I support the entrenchment of this Fund into the Constitution. With those few remarks, I request that the 2.5 per cent be increased to 5 per cent. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology policy now says that students should not walk for long distances to schools. We need schools not more than five kilometres from each other. We need more money to build more primary schools and fund secondary schools in building dormitories. If we do not do that, the Government will not manage to do these things. The constituency is the lowest unit of government on the ground. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you being a lawyer, kindly help us to ensure that this amendment is done in such a way that someone cannot run to court again saying that it is unconstitutional. Sometimes we blame the courts, but what can they do if we have not entrenched the Fund in the Constitution? Let us entrench it in the Constitution so that they cannot outlaw it. They will have to let it be whether they like it or not. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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