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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matayos, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Odanga",
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    "content": "has just been passed, and which I wanted to make a comment on. I wanted to comment on it even after it had been done with. I realised that in as much as the Joint Committee has Members of ability to serve or to elect our Members to the EALA, it is regionally and religiously imbalanced. It is against the tenets of the Constitution. Having said that, this Motion moved by Hon. Elsie who is the Member for Kakamega is very worthy being before this House. She is talking about developing a policy. I want Members to mark the word ‘policy’. I know all of us agree that we should have school feeding programmes. The Motion is talking about the Government developing a policy on the school feeding programme. We have had various programmes that have been developed very haphazardly in the country. Some have been developed by the county governments, while others have been developed by the national Government. The aim is providing food to some institutions, but there is no policy. We would have no problem in attracting access of our children to schools, if a policy was in place. We would have no problem in maintaining them in school throughout. We need a policy for this. Just as Mheshimiwa Omboko Milemba has said about the Nyayo Milk that came in the late 1970s - around 1979 - some of us enjoyed it. It went on up to, perhaps, the middle of 1980s to the 1990s. Many children were kept in school. We really implore that as Members, we should support this Motion for the Government to develop a policy that will make sure our children’s well-being in nutrition and health is maintained. That is to ensure they are in school and are able to learn without problems."
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