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    "id": 1194370,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibra, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Orero",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First of all, I thank you for giving me this time to contribute to this very important legislative proposal. I thank my two colleagues who brought this legislative proposal. I thank Hon. Mule and Hon. Gichimu for spending their time thinking about such an important legislative proposal, which has brought the different political divides together. Listening to the contributions from both sides of the House, if you had an “emotionometre” to measure the emotions of the people in this House, you will realise that we have the same denominator. We all believe that this kind of amendment should be done, not today but yesterday. I stand here as an educationist who has benefited a lot from the NG-CDF. I may not have benefited directly, but I have handled students who solely depended on NG-CDF money to pay for school fees. We have come up with the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) which requires us to build primary and secondary schools. The national Government alone without the NG-CDF will not be able to build enough classrooms for students to transit to the next level. The more we delay with these funds, the more the confusion in the implementation of CBC in our country. I have looked at moments where emotions have risen beyond control. I only have two instances. When we have elections, you can see emotions rising across the different political divides. I have seen emotions rising in Kenyans regarding the NG-CDF. Anybody can correct me but there is nowhere in this country where a student is not home because of lack of school fees. That is not only in areas where we have different political parties; it is in all areas of this country. I will be lying to myself if I did not mention that the most affected areas in terms of delay of NG-CDF funds are slum areas. As I always say, I represent one of the biggest slums, that is Kibra. Where people talk about selling cows and having farms where they can dig and reap the benefits, we do not have farms in our slums. Therefore, the most affected children are those coming from slums. In fact, I am reliably told that almost half of our students are now at home because of lack of funds, which were there before. The first time this Bill was tabled was in 2003, then again in 2007, 2013 and 2015. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I must commend the magnanimous way that this House always does its work. You have corrected this. The last time it came was in 2013, when the activists were against these funds. You came up with procedures and processes where it was reinstated in 2015. That is why it is still there today."
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